Quotes About Monogamy

I'm in a monogamous relationship and have been for many, many years. I think it's a choice. I don't think you can generalize, though, and what works for me may not work for other people, but I don't think everybody cheats. We're all different.

Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.

We human beings are definitely capable of loving more than one person, but it seems to go more smoothly if we don't love more than one person at a time.

On STDs] This be Nature's way of recommending monogamy.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

We drove to the hotel and said goodbye. How hypocritical to go upstairs with a man you don't want to fuck, leave the one you do sitting there alone, and then, in a state of great excitement, fuck the one you don't want to fuck while pretending he's the one you do. That's called fidelity. That's called monogamy. That's called civilization and its discontents.

I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.

I definitely don't think I could be in an open relationship.

Holly and Hef were obviously the main relationship. We weren't allowed to date or anything like that.

Living with one woman is horrific.

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

Why has that man fallen in love with that woman? Because she's pretty. Why does pretty matter? Because human beings are a mainly monogamous species and so males are choosy about their mates (as male chimpanzees are not); prettiness is an indication of youth and health, which are indications of fertility.

Male gorillas monopolise their mates, so their sperm meets no competitors; male chimpanzees share their mates, so each needs to produce large quantities of sperm and mate frequently to increase his chances of being the father. It also explains why male birds sing so hard when already 'married'. They are looking for 'affairs'.

Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy.

Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.

Monogamy, it follows, is the sacred cow of the romantic ideal, for it is the marker of our specialness: I have been chosen and others renounced. When you turn your back on other loves, you confirm my uniqueness; when your hand or mind wanders, my importance is shattered. Conversely, if I no longer feel special, my own hands and mind tingle with curiosity. The disillusioned are prone to roam. Might someone else restore my significance

Monogamy used to mean one person for life. Now monogamy means one person at a time.

Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on.

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.

It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.