Marriage,” “mating,” and “love” are socially constructed phenomena that have little or no transferable meaning outside any given culture. The examples we’ve noted of rampant ritualized group sex, mate-swapping, unrestrained casual affairs, and socially sanctioned...

I felt like a monster a lot of the time. It made me understand men. It made me understand adolescent boys a lot.

But with trust we can strive to accept even what we cannot understand.

You Are What You EatTake food for example. We all assume that our craving or disgust is due to something about the food itself – as opposed to being an often arbitrary response preprogrammed by...

No group-living nonhuman primate is monogamous, and adultery has been documented in every human culture studied- including those in which fornicators are routinely stoned to death. In light of all of this bloody retribution, it’s...