Quote by Christopher Ryan

I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

— K. D. Lang

“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…

— Christopher Ryan

Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.

— Rita Mae Brown

“The truth is, many people do not consciously choose monogamy; society chooses it for them, and it becomes the default.”

— Tristan Taormino

“As a species we’re pathetic in that way: imperfectly monogamous. If we could only pair-bond for life, like gibbons, or else opt for total…

— Margaret Atwood

“In The Moral Animal, Robert Wright laments, "A basic underlying dynamic between men and women is mutual exploitation. They seem, at times, designed to…

— Cacilda Jethá

The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever…

— Rachel Hunter

“Monogamy is not a choice, it is a responsibility of a genuine human.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Polygamy is a luxury of the cave-people, and monogamy is an existential responsibility of the civilized society.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Anthropologist Donald Symons is as amazed as we are at frequent attempts to argue that monogamous gibbons could serve as viable models for human…

— Cacilda Jethá

“How has the incessant, grinding campaign of socio-scientific insistence upon the naturalness of sexual monogamy combined with a couple thousand years of fire and…

— Christopher Ryan

Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.

— Adam Phillips