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Comment author: wedrifid 13 August 2012 05:44:47PM 3 points [-]

Serial monogomy, rather than polygyny, constitutes the vast majority of all Western relationships.

It constitutes the vast majority of significant, formal, mid to long term Western relationships. It does not constitute the majority of sexual relations that can be described as "It's Complicated" or "Single (but not celibate)".

So I just don't think it's true that there's unequal access.

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 August 2012 11:46:18PM *  1 point [-]

I'd still wager that most (i.e., more than 50%) of the sexual intercourses happening today (i.e. 13 August 2012 from 00:00 to 24:00 UTC) in the Western world (let's define that as NATO countries, for the sake of definiteness, though it's not a particularly natural category) are within monogamous relationships (defined as couples who have --explicitly or implicitly-- promised each other not to have sex with anyone else until the relationship lasts).

Huh, how could such a bet be settled?

(No, let's make that "this year". I think people are less monogamous in August than they usually are.)