“The cure for that is enforced monogamy," Peterson said.
It was the type of assertion that usually precedes a laugh and a clarification that it was a joke. But Peterson did not say this in jest.
"Mr. Peterson does not pause when he says this," Bowles wrote of this specific interaction. "Enforced monogamy is, to him, simply a rational solution. Otherwise women will all only go for the most high-status men, he explains, and that couldn’t make either gender happy in the end."
This is not an entirely unreasonable notion, being that it's often seen in the animal kingdom. Of course, it doesn't help that, for all the left's supposed lack of a feeling of superiority to those who can't get laid, it's their favourite cheap shot in response to any opinion they don't like, from niceguyism to stereotypes about cheerleaders, even when there isn't any evidence the cheap shot is true, let alone is. Note that it was not used in response to women expressing similar opinions, (or any "gender-flip" of them) as it simply wouldn't make sense there.
I used to think the taboo against casual sex was driven either by a sentimental attachment to the ideal of monogamy, or by a need to protect babies from being born to single mothers, or both. To some extent, I still figure all that may be part of it. But this might be another part. Why else would so many men so fervently insist on opposing casual sex even though this would shut them out of it as well?
Of course, the other side of it is that those cut out for sex, but not for relationships, may be denied the former by such an arrangement. But then what does that say about their priorities?
I also wonder if this might be what the whole "men must make the first move" thing is about too. If women made the first move, they might mostly take turns having sex with the same few guys, but in a society where men make the first move, most women are married by the age of 30.
