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Monogamy in marriage, he believes, is all about the kids. Both men and women have an interest in making sure children are protected and nurtured, and straying makes that task more difficult, so most of us don’t do it.

The idea that we’re becoming a nation of orgiastic libertines is, of course, one of the animating ideas of the Christian right. They’d like to take us back to a mythical time when there was no porn, no sex before marriage, no straying once you were in that marriage.

While they may see Schwartz’s argument as proof of their fears, and justification for repression of sexual liberties, maybe we should all be encouraged.

It’s possible that both Schwartz and Potts are correct, that there is more non-monogamy in our society, but that, in the end, most of us wind up in stable marriages and make better parents.

Wouldn’t that be something?

Women take a great leap forward

By CNN's Hugh Riminton in Shanghai

Wednesday, May 18, 2005 Posted: 10:23 AM EDT (1423 GMT)

CNN) -- Women of the world take note: there's a new club on the block.

Female, upwardly mobile Chinese internationals, or "fumchis," consist of a generation of Chinese women born into the best of times.

At a cocktail party thrown for visiting jazz singer Laura Fygi in Shanghai, the fumchis are out in force, and the mood is buoyant.