I don’t know where you get your data from but in many cultures men practicse serial polygamy and even in our culture when I was a boy I’d wager that 75% of the men I knew cheated and maybe a quarter of the women.
Monogamy is a religious construct...not the natural state.
I am open to any links you have with historical stats to bolster the argument.
I believe men choose to be faithful becasue they know it’s more often than not best but not because they inherently are driven to.
LOL..no way Jose.
I’ve lived all over the world....monogmay is most common in the US and Israel...Canada too
Female monogamy is of course rigid in Islamic nations
Just like the birds. They build their nests with a partner and rear their young with a partner - but many of those little birds like to cheat on their mate.
Monogamy is a religious construct that happens to match almost every religion and the cultural practices of almost every human society from the dawn of time?
People pair off. They may well keep an eye out for a trade up, a trade in, a trade off, or a temporary trading of bodily fluids; but they do tend to pair off... one woman, and one man.
The biological drive to pair up is just as strong as in the little birds that do so, but associated with a lot more thinking and second guessing in our species.
The biological drive to cheat is just as strong in humans as in the little birds, but we have more information to bring to bear on the subject, societal and cultural ramifications - and yet we seem to do it just as much as those little tweety birds.
Amazing isn't it. We think about it a lot more, but end up enacting pretty much the exact same behavior patterns as a bird with the brain the size of a button.