{"id":132645,"date":"2017-01-25T16:06:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T23:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/the-apparent-myth-of-promiscuous-males-and-virtuous-females.html"},"modified":"2017-01-25T16:06:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T23:06:58","slug":"the-apparent-myth-of-promiscuous-males-and-virtuous-females","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/the-apparent-myth-of-promiscuous-males-and-virtuous-females.html","title":{"rendered":"The apparent myth of Promiscuous Males and Virtuous Females"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fascinating look at some of the modern theories, experiments, and observations breaking the biological and "evolutionary psychology" myths that males mate freely and females don't — or, as the anonymous[1] doggerel has it:<\/p>\n

Hogamous, Higamous,<\/i>
Man is polygamous,<\/i>
Higamous, Hogamous,<\/i>
Woman is monogamous.<\/i><\/p>\n

Turns out that when you go back and look at the animal kingdom, that's not what you see (unless you walk in with that assumption), and that the foundational experiment that established the idea can't be reproduced (so to speak).<\/p>\n

(Note for folk outraged by the implications to humans: this has nothing to do with morality, nor with what societal rules about sexuality should be. There are a lot of things in the animal kingdom — eating one's offspring, for example — that humans usually choose not to emulate. That said, this knocks a prop under the idea of what is Natural And Therefore Moral, which is fair because that view of Natural was based on what Victorian Society, and following, considered Moral.)<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

[1] See http:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2012\/03\/28\/hogamous\/<\/a> for more discussion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nData should smash the biological myth of promiscuous males and sexually coy females<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fascinating look at some of the modern theories, experiments, and observations breaking the biological and "evolutionary psychology" myths that males mate freely and females don't — or, as the anonymous[1] doggerel has it: Hogamous, Higamous,Man is polygamous,Higamous, Hogamous,Woman is monogamous. Turns out that when you go back and look at the animal kingdom, that's … Continue reading “The apparent myth of Promiscuous Males and Virtuous Females”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28497,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/10\/its-not-all-about-sexy-sexy-males-in-the-animal-kingdom.html","url_meta":{"origin":132645,"position":0},"title":"It's not all about sexy-sexy males in the animal kingdom","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Jul-12 12:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"The idea that, in most species (though, oddly, not with contemporary humans), sexual selection is based on gaudy, sexy males mating with as many females as possible ... may not be actually supported by the original theories that put the idea forward.(And, regardless, doesn't explain the human paradigm of sexy-sexy\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":36627,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/30\/erick-erickson-is-a-dolt-taint-natural-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":132645,"position":1},"title":"Erick Erickson Is a Dolt (‘Tain’t Natural Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 30-May-13 10:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Erickson, head of conservative blogging site RedState, decried a new Pew poll showing that women were the sole or primary breadwinner in 40% of households with children (of those, 40% had mothers who were the higher-paid or only income in the family; 60% were single mothers).'I\u2019m so used to liberals\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27368,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/12\/fear-love-sex-and-teen-boys.html","url_meta":{"origin":132645,"position":2},"title":"Fear, Love, Sex, and Teen Boys","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Apr-12 8:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Teen males 15-19 are as likely to be virgins as teen females the same age, which is a huge change over the last two decades. 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