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	Monogamy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These risks should be weighed against the fact that even monogamy increases the risks far beyond someone who is abstinant; it is a question of to what degree the risk is worth the reward.
		Note also that existence of a legally monogamous relationship (marriage) is no guarantee of a monogamous one in fact.
		Some societies have formally or semiformally recognized that married persons may have other sexual partners outside of the marriage relationship, while in societies that do not condone this practice it is nevertheless not unusual.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monogamous (1264 words)

	Monogamous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A Different Kind of Domination and Submission Includes a very detailed questionnaire for chivalrous submissive men who are interested in establishing a monogamous relationship with a dominant lady.
		SDABridges GLBT Discussion List For gay and lesbian Christians who believe in the Seventh-day Adventist vision of the gospel and are convinced that a monogamous same-gender relationship is the best way to reconcile their faith and their sexuality.
		SDABridges Email community for gay and lesbian Christians who believe in the Seventh-day Adventist vision of the gospel and are convinced that a monogamous same-gender relationship is the best way to reconcile their faith and their sexuality.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Monogamous.html (299 words)

	Origins of the Family. Chapter 2 (IV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Monogamous marriage comes on the scene as the subjugation of the one sex by the other; it announces a struggle between the sexes unknown throughout the whole previous prehistoric period.
		Monogamous marriage was a great historical step forward; nevertheless, together with slavery and private wealth, it opens the period that has lasted until today in which every step forward is also relatively a step backward, in which prosperity and development for some is won through the misery and frustration of others.
		That was precluded by the very nature of strictly monogamous marriage under the rule of the man. Among all historically active classes-that is, among all ruling classes-matrimony remained what it had been since the pairing marriage, a matter of convenience which was arranged by the parents.
	www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch02d.htm (7151 words)

	Monogamy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In some monogamous species, the male defends a territory in which his mate collects the food required by the offspring, but does not himself feed the nestlings.
		Some species are viewed as facultatively monogamous; that is, if released from certain environmental constraints, they would typically exhibit some other form of mating system such as polygyny (one male mating with more than one female) or promiscuity (mating without forming pair bonds).
		Investigations of cooperatively breeding Acorn Woodpeckers and "monogamous" Eastern Bluebirds demonstrate conclusively that clutches with mixed parentage (containing offspring of more than one female, more than one male, or both) are not infrequent, indicating some infidelity by either or both sexes and/or egg dumping by females.
	www.stanfordalumni.org /birdsite/text/essays/Monogamy.html (634 words)

	Families in Society: Monogamous or not: Understanding and counseling gay male couples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In one study comparing monogamous and nonexclusive gay male couples, men in open relationships reported a stronger desire for sexual excitement and diversity, yet did not differ from their monogamous counterparts on measures of love, liking, relationship satisfaction, or commitment (Blasband & Peplau, 1985).
		For a monogamous couple, outside sex is considered a betrayal and poses a threat to the relationship (Marcus, 1999).
		Thus, it is important to distinguish between mutual agreements to be non-monogamous and infidelity in a monogamous union.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3625/is_200111/ai_n9015924 (1370 words)

	Mating for Life?
		In a monogamous relationship, a breeding pair shares the same nest and territory where they are frequently in contact.
		Monogamous males participate in parental care, and intruders of either sex are rejected (3).
		The percentage of primates that are monogamous is, however, considerably higheræperhaps as large as fifteen percent.
	www.college.emory.edu /hybridvigor/issue1/mating.htm (1290 words)

	Stomatopod Biology: Stomatopod Mating
		The life cycle of mantis shrimps involves an egg stage; a series of free-swimming, plankton-feeding larval stages; a series of immature (subadult) growth stages; and finally a sexually mature (reproductive) adult stage.
		In this case, the fact that these spearers live in non-limiting burrows in the mud and thus do not compete for homes (as well as the fact that this critter lives in turbid waters where predation may be less of a factor) may contribute to this lifestyle.
		The lifestyle may have been selected for due to the fact that these mantis shrimps have reduced armor and are particularly vulnerable to predation if they have to leave their homes to search for mates.
	www.blueboard.com /mantis/bio/mating.htm (822 words)

	Monogamous animals may be more likely to die out
		The second is harem size: mammals that are monogamous or have small harems were more prone to extinction.
		For instance, several duiker species, which are monogamous, died out an average of 10 years after the reserves were established, while the African buffalo, which has harems with about 15 females, is still living in all the reserves.
		Similarly, several colobus monkey species, which have few mates, died out an average of 18 years after the reserves were established, while green monkeys and baboons, which have many mates, are still living in all the reserves.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-05/sfcb-mam052303.php (583 words)

	elfs: "Legalized Polyamory"
		Monogamous marriage cannot function if it is just one of many social arrangement.
		Apparently the hundreds of years of monogamous marriage as a social institution are to be destroyed, overnight, by this one court decision.
		And most tellingly, seems to be saying that monogamous marriage is so fundamentally flawed or weak that it cannot survive and exist if any other options also exist.
	www.livejournal.com /talkread.bml?journal=elfs&itemid=16572 (1080 words)

	Monogamy as a Prisoners' Dilemma
		None of the simian species are strictly monogamous; our closest relatives, the chimpanzees, practice a form of group marriage.
		Even in societies that are technically monogamous there is often a good deal of both tolerated and covert infidelity.
		But less us assume an infinitely expanding chain for the moment, and turn to the second problem: everyone receiving 1.17 is aware that they could be receiving 1.75 if their lovers did not have other lovers, and they were the center of two undivided attentions.
	www.hackvan.com /pub/stig/life/Monogamy-as-Prisoners-Dilemma.html (4042 words)

	Do Women Use Deceit To Keep Men Monogamous? Security for women, Sex for men Are Basis for Monogamy
		Scientists claim that monogamous relationships among many species, including humans, only persist because females have found a way to disguise whether they are fertile.
		The result is that men haplessly become monogamous, unable to move on to a new partner because they cannot determine whether their most recent coupling has resulted in pregnancy.
		Although it intuitively makes sense, scientists had no explanation why men were mainly monogamous, whereas males in most species seek to mate with as many females as possible to maximise the number of children they father.
	www.skfriends.com /why-are-we-monogamous.htm (1465 words)

	Polyamory? But I'm monogamous!
		If you consider yourself to be monogamous by nature, and you want to begin a relationship with someone who is polyamorous by nature, it's important to go into that relationship with your eyes open.
		That is, the monogamous partner may hope or believe that the poly person will eventually "choose" the new mono partner over other existing partners, and abandon polyamory entirely.
		- The monogamous partner assumes that poly people are inherently "emotionally limited," immature, or unreliable, or that the poly partner's polyamory indicates an inability to commit to a relationship -- and therefore holds back on deep intimacy, involvement, or commitment with the poly person.
	www.xeromag.com /fvmonopoly_existing.html (920 words)

	Gene transfer enhances pair bonding in monogamous voles
		Scientists at Emory University have been able to increase bonding behavior in monogamous male prairie voles by transferring a receptor gene for the neuropeptide arginine vasopressin (AVP) into a particular region of the brain.
		The study reinforces previous findings that monogamy in voles, including the formation of pair bonds, is enhanced by vasopressin, and it is the first study to demonstrate that complex social behaviors, such as social attachment, can be increased by viral vector gene transfer.
		All monogamous vole species, even though they may be unrelated, have denser vasopressin receptor binding in the ventral pallidal region of the brain than do non-monogamous vole species.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2001-09/euhs-gte091401.php (828 words)

	ethics news & views: Dr. Thomas R. Insel Shares Research Findings on Mammals & Monogamy at Herndon Lecture
		For most of what scientists consider monogamous social organization, it has been shown by examination of DNA that "molecular biology genotypes don't show exclusivity." Biologists find it very rare for reproductive pairs of any species to be truly sexually exclusive.
		Prairie voles are rodents found in the American midwest who live in monogamous, multigenerational colonies where males are invested in sharing in the rearing of their young with their female partners.
		This suggested that the release of OT is necessary for the female to form a monogamous pair bon.
	www.ethics.emory.edu /news/archives/000231.html (907 words)

	Men are 'Biologically' Monogamous
		By offering sex all the time, they say, females in monogamous species, such as humans, birds and porcupines, disguise whether they are fertile and trick males into staying.
		become monogamous, unable to move on to a new partner because they cannot determine whether their most recent coupling has resulted in pregnancy.
		And if men were innately monogamous, societies would also not have so many problems caused by those seemingly insatiable sex drives that make many men do the stupidest - and often most criminal - of things.
	www.angryharry.com /esMenareBiologicallyMonogamous.htm (1127 words)

	EEB 281 Student questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A socially monogamous bird is one that maintains a pair bond with only one other individual, but may engage in extra-pair copulations if it can do so without being detected by its partner.
		A monogamous bird is one that maintains a pair bond with only one other individual, and copulates only with that individual.
		The length of the pair bond, whether for a single breeding attempt or for life, is not relevant to whether the bird is socially monogamous, monogamous, or otherwise, as long as there IS a discernable pair bond.
	www.eeb.uconn.edu /courses/Ornithology/EEB281_29_Student_Questions.htm (764 words)

	sciforums.com - Monogamy in animals?
		They tested the DNA in the eggs of the neigboring birds, and found that they "cheated" on their partners, and in fact, were not sexually monogamous.
		I read just today that sparrows are monogamous, I don't know if there are any cases of "cheating" but I don't think thats their style...
		I once read an article in a newspaper saying that one species of sea-horse is also monogamous, which ironically causes its being endangered since the males (if my memory is correct) are captured all the time to be placed in aquariums....
	www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?t=25841 (308 words)

	"Hepatitis C Virus: No Evidence of Sexual Transmission of HCV Among Monogamous Couples" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Carmen Vandelli and colleagues evaluated the risk of sexual transmission of hepatitis C (HCV) infection among monogamous heterosexual couples.
		The long-term prospective study, which provided a follow-up period of 8,060 person-years, followed 895 monogamous heterosexual partners of HCV chronically infected individuals.
		The full report, "Lack of Evidence of Sexual Transmission of Hepatitis C Among Monogamous Couples: Results of a 10-Year Prospective Follow-Up Study," was published in American Journal of Gastroenterology (2004;99(5):855-859).
	www.hivdent.org /medical/medHCVN072004.htm (313 words)

	Why Are Men Obsessed With Porn? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is how they help to insure that their genes get passed on to the next generation.
		In fact, it's his way of dealing with his natural programming; just as expecting him to be monogamous and committed to you is yours.
		As I mentioned, men are not monogamous by nature.
	www.friendsandlovers.com /DennisNeder/neder15.html (439 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: History of Marriage
		The experience of the race, particularly in its movement toward and its progress in civilization, has approved monogamy for the simple reason that monogamy is in harmony with the essential and immutable elements of human nature.
		In all those regions in which polygamy has existed or still exists, the status of woman is extremely low; she is treated as man's property, not as his companion; her life is invariably one of great hardship, while her moral, spiritual, and intellectual qualities are almost utterly neglected.
		The fact the union is indissoluble and monogamous promotes in the highest degree the welfare of parents and children, and stimulates in the whole community the practice of those qualities of self-restraint and altruism which are essential to social well-being, physical, mental, and moral (see FAMILY; DIVORCE; CELIBACY).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09693a.htm (4704 words)

	Polyamory? But I'm monogamous!
		The information presented here assumes that you are in a traditional, monogamous relationship, and your partner has just told you that he or she is polyamorous.
		This may especially be true of the monogamous partner, who will have to learn and adapt to a completely new way to approach romantic relationships that may seem at first to fly in the face of everything you understand about the way love is supposed to work.
		If you are to survive as a monogamous person in a non-monogamous relationship, it;'s very important both for the health of the relationship and for your own psychological well-being that you feel empowered in that relationship.
	www.xeromag.com /fvmonopoly.html (3357 words)

	Researchers make promiscuous animals monogamous by manipulating genes
		This finding, which appears in the June 17 issue of Nature, may help better explain the neurobiology of romantic love as well as disorders of the ability to form social bonds, such as autism.
		In addition, the finding supports previous research linking social bond formation with drug addiction, also associated with the reward center of the brain.
		Previous studies of monogamous male prairie voles, which form lifelong social or pair bonds with a single mate, determined the animals' brains contain high levels of vasopressin receptors in one of the brain's principal reward regions, the ventral pallidum.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-06/euhs-rmp061504.php (607 words)

	"Rethinking Monogamous Men" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		So my concerns about monogamous men are just a subset of issues that can take many different forms depending on a guy's sexuality, his inborn traits, or conscious choices he's made about how he lives his life.
		The best way I can explain it is that monogamous guys seem to have a kind of on/off switch in their minds where relationships are concerned.
		The "we've decided to be monogamous" line is, all by itself, a solid indication that your opinion about your relationship with a monogamous person no longer counts in the same way.
	world.std.com /~khvastun/poly/monoboys.html (2168 words)

	Social benefits of wound healing may not make any difference in animals with multiple partners
		COLUMBUS, Ohio — A new study suggests that wounds on mice that prefer multiple mates heal at the same rate, whether the mice are housed with a mate or live in isolation.
		She and Erica Glasper, a doctoral student in psychology at Ohio State, took a closer look at the effects social bonding had on wound healing in monogamous and non-monogamous deer mice.
		Social contact benefited the monogamous mice — corticosterone levels were lower, and wounds also healed faster.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-08/osu-sbo080304.php (393 words)

	IBM Journal of Research and Development: Is entanglement monogamous? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By considering the question of whether entanglement is "monogamous," I illustrate Charles Bennett's influence on modern quantum information theory.
		When I googled "entanglement monogamous," I got 215 hits in 0.02 seconds, and as you may expect, a fair number of them were unrelated to science.
		Entanglement is monogamous-the more entangled Bob is with Alice, the less entangled he can be.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3751/is_200401/ai_n9348147 (1423 words)

	Monogamy in stomatopods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Above are two of the smallest members of this monogamous group, about the size of a paperclip.
		However, in lysiosquillids, one group of spearers, the males and females are monogamous (meaning they stay together and share a burrow).
		One of the goals of the Aquarius mission was to study different species of monogamous stomatopods.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /aquarius/monogamy.html (167 words)

	Are women naturally monogamous? - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		Monogamy as defined by The Concise Oxford Dictionary is "the practice or state of being married to one person at a time or the habit of having only one mate at a time".
		Society tells us that we should be monogamous, but condones polygamy by men, and, all the same, women will do what they want.
		We cannot claim that, as westerners, we are monogamous but behave in a polygamous manner.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /magazines/AllWoman/html/20050501T160000-0500_79709_OBS_ARE_WOMEN_NATURALLY_MONOGAMOUS_.asp (824 words)

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