In Defense of Monogamy, or What to do about Our Polyamorous Genes

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 16:56 in Psychology & Sociology

So many have weighed in on the Tiger Woods peccadilloes, why shouldn’t we weigh in from a genetics perspective. Whether golf’s great Tiger Woods’ dalliance with multiple women -- some in the sex business, some as mistresses, -- is a story of sexual addiction, uncontrollable sexual release, or sexual conquests, science and history will tell. But if it is, as some pundits have said, because he has a sense of entitlement, because he can, because today’s millionaire athletes are rock stars, then today’s men who do not behave like that should stand up and cheer – because they...

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