Do you think "cheating" is a biological urge?

Jantias Datsan · 2011-08-24T21:57:43+00:00

According to a show on the Discovery Channel it apparently is. I mean... depending on the bond with their wife, some men will go sleeping around (being a "playah" or resorting to rape to spread his genes). But I find that women are more... ugh... can't find the word for it, but it goes like this. A woman will marry a man who she knows will love and nurture her children and will sleep with him a lot. But there could be a few who will go "gene shopping" behind their husband's back, getting themselves pregnant with men she thinks will provide the best genes for her children. And her husband would be clueless about this if she played her cards right so he thinks the children she's bearing are his... I guess that's how I see it after seeing that one Discovery Channel show where that couple's sixth child ended up having a genetic disease that activates when both parents pass on the defective gene. Except that only the woman was a carrier of that gene and her husband wasn't. All the children were tested genetically and it was found that the only daughter in the family was the husband's child. The rest of the children (all boys) had different fathers. I can only imagine the shock on the husband's face when this came to light...

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Haajib

14 years ago

You guys are aware that "rape" and having multiple partners are common thing amongst a large variety of mammals all around the world?

Rei means Zero

14 years ago

Girlfountain wrote...

From an evolutionary standpoint I am almost certain it is. The more sex with different partners the more offspring, resulting in a less extinct humanity.

People can be happy with one partner, but all the self control they have over the subject of "not cheating" is artificially created by are urban environment and not from what "the human animal" would do.

This. Is true.
I would add something further: Biological success for men is to get as many childs as possible- this is why they have so much sperm. Choosing a good mating partner is secondary. Women on the other hand have their biological success on a) choosing the perfect genetical partner and b) parenting. This is why some scientists suspect they choose different partners for mating and breeding (Those words sounds weird .. )
That's the way to maintain biological success...
BUT those rules apply on a time where food was rare, men were killed by beasts. Nowadays our planet is due to technology and medicine, which enlarge our life span overpopulated. Propably our instincts and urges to follow these instincts have reduced. Also I see a slow change in society that non-monogam relations get accepted more. I'd be happy to see a society which accepts all kinds of relationships and lets everyone choose (~Utopy desu...)

TheDarkStarAlchemist Requests Moderator

14 years ago

Cheating is only okay is you are the one whom which someone is cheating with and you are not in a relationship. Elsewise, it is not. It is not okay to cheat under any other circumstance. Even if you are being abused, just break up with them AND THEN have relations with others.

REMEMBER: It is polite to refuse twice before accepting an offer.

blackpoints9

14 years ago

I'm entirely against cheating. I believe if you sit down with your bf/gf/wife/husband and tell them you wanna have sex alot then you guys can probably come up with a solution together.

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