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Are Humans Monogamous? (2020 Rerun)

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

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Is Our Society Trying to Make Us Into Chimps?

You can observe bonobos for hours and there won't be any sex. It's not like they're in a constant state of sexuality. But when you do observe them 24-7, you see a lot of sex happening compared to other primates that is non-reproduction reasons. So I feel like what I was trying to get at is I feel like our society has been modeled closer to the chimps except strip away all the numbers. We're trying to fit a bonobo-shaped block into a chim... Painous.

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