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Originally Posted by Crompsin
I'm no Batman, but I'm a decent joker. (rimshot)
I'd suggest that pair-bonding (marriage) is a social (perhaps legal) construct mostly designed to manage, maintain, and pass-on wealth through the confusing branch system that is the "family" name. Wealth could be anything... cold hard cash, spitting camels, or wampum.
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Not quite I think. About every society has marriages, even in polygamous ones there tends to be a 'head wife'. Its more than just society, its society mirroring our genetics. There are survival advantages for a woman linked to one man which are obvious, but there are survival aspects for a man linked to a woman.
True polygamy as we think of it, is in fact a modern invention, based on wealth accumulation which is not possible in a 'natural' state. A great hunter can only accumulate so much wealth, but once agriculture entered the picture, truly vast sums of 'currency' could be gathered and more importantly it was easier to specialize in society.
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I'd say we only really get married so we can have stability. No guy really marries a woman saying to himself, "Man, I can't wait to spend 40 years boinking the same old snatch!" We wouldn't go through some bullshit promise rite if it didn't outweigh crotch-slamming a different woman every 2 weeks to 6 months.
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Again, historically its been both. Its only in very recent times that sexual monogamy became the societal rule for men. Even the Catholic church used to accept brothels as necessary evils.
Well gotta go.....