Free porn: Not just on the Internet in India
22 February 2012, 6:05 am
Overheard from Konark to Khajuraho.... Jason Overdorf This past week, I traveled to Orissa to visit Konark's famous Sun Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Given India Today's dismay over the sudden invasion of the Internet, you'll be shocked to discover what I found.  Nearly a thousand years before Al Gore invented the Internet, Indians had pioneered the field of free porn. My guide, a guy ...

Mystery bird: dunnock, Prunella modularis | @GrrlScientist
3 February 2012, 3:42 pm
This drab British mystery bird has a colourful sex life that would make America's Tea Partiers faint Hedge accentor, Prunella modularis (protonym, Motacilla modularis ), Linnaeus, 1758, also known as the hedge sparrow, the shuffle-wing, or as the dunnock accentor, the European dunnock or, most famously (especially in Britain), just as the dunnock, photographed in Brereton Heath Local Nature ...

Monogamous societies superior to polygamous societies | Gene Expression
30 January 2012, 11:40 pm
The title is rather loud and non-objective. But that seems to me to be the upshot of Henrich et al.’s The puzzle of monogamous marriage (open access). In the abstract they declare that “normative monogamy reduces crime rates, including rape, murder, assault, robbery and fraud, as well as decreasing personal abuses.” Seems superior to me. As a [...]

Polygamous cultures linked with instability, crimes
24 January 2012, 6:02 am
Toronto, Jan 24 (IANS) Cultures permitting polygamy are wracked by greater crime levels, violence, poverty and gender inequality, owing to the intra-sexual competiton that engenders it, than societies sticking to monogamous marriage.

Study explores global rise of monogamous marriage as a dominant cultural institution
23 January 2012, 11:09 pm
In cultures that permit men to take multiple wives, the intra-sexual competition that occurs causes greater levels of crime, violence, poverty and gender inequality than in societies that institutionalize and practice monogamous marriage.

More rape and violence among polygamists: Study
23 January 2012, 9:38 pm
In cultures that permit men to take multiple wives, the sexual competition between men for the remaining women causes more murder, rape, violence, kidnapping and poverty than in monogamous societies, a new University of British Columbia-led study shows.

Monogamy reduces major social problems of polygamist cultures
23 January 2012, 6:17 pm
( University of British Columbia ) In cultures that permit men to take multiple wives, the intra-sexual competition that occurs causes greater levels of crime, violence, poverty and gender inequality than in societies that institutionalize and practice monogamous marriage.That is a key finding of a new University of British Columbia-led study that explores the global rise of monogamous marriage ...

Monogamy reduces major social problems of polygamist cultures: study
23 January 2012, 6:10 pm
In cultures that permit men to take multiple wives, the intra-sexual competition that occurs causes greater levels of crime, violence, poverty and gender inequality than in societies that institutionalize and practice monogamous marriage.

Confessions of a 2nd wife – Marriage in Islam - Salon
10 February 2012, 5:59 pm
Basically he told me "I love you, I want you to be my wife, but it has to be polygyny because I can’t leave my wife". Insisting that he divorce his first wife in order to clear the road for a second marriage would be harming an existing family.

Mystery bird: dunnock, Prunella modularis - The Guardian
3 February 2012, 11:12 am
There are several different strategies they might use: • A male paired with a female (monogamy) • More than one male paired with the same female (polyandry) • A male paired with more than one female (polygyny)

Secular liberals the tip of the Islamist spear - DISCOVER
1 February 2012, 2:53 am
It has a low fertility, a strong connection to the West via a Francophone elite, and has long banned practices such as polygyny. And unlike Egypt or Syria ethnic or religious conflict does not loom on the horizon. Tunisia is overwhelmingly Arab and ...

Monogamous societies superior to polygamous societies - DISCOVER
31 January 2012, 12:17 am
Addendum: When I say polygamy, I mean polygyny. I would say polygyny, but then readers get confused. Also, do not confuse social preference for polygyny with lack of female power. There are two modern models of polygynous societies, the African ...