Steve Stewart-Williams

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Modern Wisdom · The New Science Of Female Attraction - Psychology Roundtable - #1133 · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

And women often are very keen on the idea of having just one guy to themselves rather than having a guy who's going to have other women as well.

I do.

Yeah.

I've seen a paper arguing that polygamy actually can be beneficial to women because women can choose to marry a high status guy who's already got a wife and high status rich kind of guy rather than having to either not be married.

Yeah.

And it takes away that choice if somebody wants it.

It means that the only choice is to have no partner or have somebody further down the totem pole.

They fall in love.

I'm largely interested in one other person for at least for a while.

Yeah, I agree.

I agree with my views.

Your views which you gave me and then I repeat them and yeah, that's what.

In those kinds of societies though, um, often like a small number, small, but like non-trivial number, 5% or so of first marriages do last for life.

So, um, I think serial monogamy is probably more common.

Uh, and I think we know that because most people fall in love more than once in their lifetimes.

Um, but it does sometimes happen and we have a polygynous streak as well, I think.

Um, but yeah, so when, when the guardrails are off and there are no strict rules, you tend to find that most relationships are pair bonds.

and largely exclusive pair bonds.

But you do also find that you have a small level of polygyny and a small level of full life mating.

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