Study shows link between alcohol consumption and monogamy:
Ron Bailey points to new economic research noting that “across the world the main social groups which practice polygyny do not consume alcohol” and, conversely, “a positive correlation between monogamy and alcohol consumption (and especially between monogamy and drunkenness) across societies.”
Not wishing to crash my computer, I’m reluctant to click through to the PDF of the study in question. Presumably, however, the only way humans can stand to be with the same partner day after day, year after year, is to get drunk.
I’m open to other explanations.
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You can always avoid crashing your computer by looking up Polyamy online. I recommend Amazon and some of the how to book which detail how it is done.
Sorry, I meant the new word "polyamory." Very new to me.
I actually do not believe there is truly any real correlation here between the use of alcohol and the ability to remain married to the same person... Alcohol use would deteriorate a marriage..
Furthermore I was being facetious and annoyed as I had just by accident found the word Polyamory.
I do not recommend polyamory as it seems to be another alternative excuse for avoiding any real closeness or intimacy, just like alcohol would be...
Alcohol and other drugs are usually initially taken as a self medication, and do not normally correlate with any ways to stay married to the same person...
Each problem must considered separately, and one at a time, piece by piece, as to how it relates to the individual in general... and the couple is considered only after that individual has worked on what it is that is making them drink..
Not that anyone is reading this...
I'm reading it.
The relationship between alcohol and polygamy probably has more to do with the hashish-alcohol line. Sociologist have noted that north of a given line of demarcation, alcohol is the drug of choice, below that line, the drug is hashish. That line also demarks the limits of Christianity and Islam. Muslims are polygamist; Christians aren't. What the connection is, is not clear.
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