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Individuals in polyamorous relationships report more commitment and investment with their primary partners and report more time spent on sex with their secondary partners, a new study authored by Western researchers has found.
While previous research suggests that consensually non-monogamous relationships do not significantly differ from monogamous relationships on a number of relationship-quality indicators, this is one of the first studies to examine potential differences in the relationship dynamics between an individual's multiple partners, said lead author Rhonda Balzarini, a PhD candidate in the Psychology.
The authors asked 1,308 people in online questionnaires (drawn from polyamorous affinity groups on social media) about the dynamics of their polyamorous relationships.
"The study suggests people who are 'primary' partners – those who share a household and finances, for example – experience greater commitment and investment in the relationship. However, the secondary partnership experiences greater proportion of time spent on sex, and this remains a factor even when we account for relationship length and living arrangements," she said.
Does this explain why kings and sultans had harems?
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Friday June 30 2017, @08:37AM
"Wife" is a property only in legal terms in a patriarchal culture. Patriarchal culture puts no responsibility on young women as they are able to give birth. Your ass-backwards understanding shows you had a feminist upbringing, but it is not true and you can go to any real patriarchal culture such as middle east and witness this yourself. Secondly, women DO own all the shit such as gold in these cultures because until very recently GOLD was one of the two ways to store money in the first place. The other being land, which was given to men. And thirdly, Islam, the patriarchal culture to the max, allows non-consensual divorce for both MEN and WOMEN but does not allow non-monogamous relationships for women (only for men). This is because multiple spouse means multiple kids fighting for the money. Patriarchal cultures have no proper way to transfer money from a living woman against her wish because that is considered honourable. Men on the other hand can be forced to give. So a rich man with lots of land can divide it legally among different heirs but a rich woman cannot be asked legally to give-up her gold.
The problem with feminists is that they are a product of industrial age. They are a group of ignorant morons and like most ignorant morons of the west, they think they are simply better human beings for being western and they have the god-given right to usurp whatever system is working in non-western non-industrialized societies by hook and crook. Your understanding of 'patriarchal cultures' is wrong even for western countries pre-industrial revolution. But who cares? Feminism allows women to get free money and that makes it right.