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How Cancer Doctors Failed Her | Hannah Fry

The Checkup with Doctor Mike

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The Idea of Monogamy Is Not Real, Is It?

The idea that monogamy has been like this natural human state, and CEOs like playing away from home and having affairs with their secretaries, it actually monogamy has never really existed. It's just been that the women were supposed to be monogamous. And so actually, there is this whole thing about, like, this idea that you're supposed to have one partner forever is sort of a way to control women.

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