“Couples often fight over contracts they've never made.” — Mary Klein, sex therapist One of the phrases we often hear in these chaotic times is “the new normal”—in other words, what was once ...

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Humans are pretty monogamous, all things considered. That’s not a judgment call – it’s the conclusion of a new study from a researcher at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Archaeology, which ...

How monogamous are humans, really? It’s an age-old question subject to significant debate. Now a University of Cambridge professor has an answer: Somewhere between the Eurasian beaver and a meerkat.

In the United States, nearly one in five people have explored consensual non-monogamy, the practice of openly seeing multiple partners with the knowledge and consent of everyone involved. Despite this ...

Monogamy is a sexual orientation. It is also, erroneously, a social construct. However, as a social construct, monogamy has been failing most couples since its inception. If you’ve been reading our ...

Even Freud felt unequipped to speculate about the true nature of women’s sexual longings, but journalist Dan Bergner was bold enough to investigate what science has since learned. His new book, What ...

It was my first date with a guy whose OK Cupid profile stated that he was a polyamorous man in a long-term relationship, and without even trying, I had impressed him by mentioning my former colleague, ...

Take, for example, the notion of monogamy. We are taught that monogamy is the gold standard and anything that strays from that is problematic or flat out wrong. Thus, people who are not monogamous nor ...