Pretty much, at least the modern nuclear family is religious-patriarchal propaganda. For most of human history, IE pre agricultural revolution, nearly all hunter-gatherer tribes weren’t monogamous… I think the average adult had an estimated 4 ongoing sexual relationships at one time, from what we can tell from still existing hunter-gatherer tribes.
Also none of our close primate ancestors are monogamous. There are a tiny number of monogamous primates, but they’re extremely far from us in lineage, IE tree monkeys with long tails that have sex once a year.
Our closest primate relations, are bonobos and chimpanzees, both of which have sexual habits pretty much the opposite of what religious and patriarchal propaganda tells us how humans “should” live.
A really good book about this is “Sex at Dawn”, which is a really great dissection of pre-class-society human sexual behavior.
Pretty much, at least the modern nuclear family is religious-patriarchal propaganda. For most of human history, IE pre agricultural revolution, nearly all hunter-gatherer tribes weren’t monogamous… I think the average adult had an estimated 4 ongoing sexual relationships at one time, from what we can tell from still existing hunter-gatherer tribes.
Also none of our close primate ancestors are monogamous. There are a tiny number of monogamous primates, but they’re extremely far from us in lineage, IE tree monkeys with long tails that have sex once a year.
Our closest primate relations, are bonobos and chimpanzees, both of which have sexual habits pretty much the opposite of what religious and patriarchal propaganda tells us how humans “should” live.
A really good book about this is “Sex at Dawn”, which is a really great dissection of pre-class-society human sexual behavior.
It takes a village to raise a child after all.
that would be a good show