Sexual adaptation

Robert VerBruggen writing at National Review Online / Phi Beta Cons: “Democracy and capitalism are hardly ‘natural,’ but these institutions have done a great job of channeling humanity’s natural drives into productive and peaceful pursuits. So it is with monogamy. Men may have a natural urge to stray, and women may have a natural urge to pursue higher-status men than their current partners, but the institution of marriage does us a service by putting the brakes on these tendencies.”