William Costello

Yeah, that's absolutely the steel man version of the argument.

And fair enough, if you want to say that.

But it's this idea that a kind of free reign libertarian sexual marketplace would return to this kind of effective polygyny.

And that might not be any picnic for women either, because recent studies have shown that one in three UK men would be open to a polygynous mateship.

But guess what?

Women are not so keen on it.

They don't really want this arrangement.

So

on the one hand it sounds like monogamy is a cultural device to curtail women's sexual freedom but you could look at it that it actually is a way to curtail the most high status males sexual monopolizing so you know you can't just look at it in one dimensional analysis but yeah it's that polygyny was no picnic for anyone involved and

I don't even think it needs to be a sociopath.

I mean, we're doing a cross-sex mind reading study now where we're looking at men's and women's desired number of sex partners at various points throughout their lifetime, over the next month, over the next year, six months, 30 years, the whole lifetime.

And some of the men, their desires are just crazy high.

They're all saying like 100 partners a month, some of them.

We've got to boot them out of the study.

They're too high.

Wait, wait, wait.

You boot them out of the study?

Sometimes if it's ridiculously high, like 1,000.

Because you think they're kidding?

Maybe kidding or messing.