Q&A Forum - April 2010 (The best of Elise)

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The answer is no, we are not perverse. Human beings, as other species, are monogamous. Monogamy occurs in a species that need the contribution of the two parents to ensure the development of their offspring, as is the case in human beings. But as in many other monogamous species, our species also obtains some advantages from extramarital sex, or what we can denominate “cuckoldry”.

As you know, the word cuckold绿帽男 — a man whose wife has other lovers is and old English word to refer to a man whose wife had sex with another man and comes from the name of a European bird, the cuckoo, that is known for laying its eggs in the nests of other bird species and its chicks are raised by the other birds as their own. From its origin, the word cuckold绿帽男 — a man whose wife has other lovers pointed to the fact that some of the unfaithful wives were impregnated by their lovers and the cuckold绿帽男 — a man whose wife has other lovers husband had to support the children that another man had with his own wife. On the other hand, the word cuckoldry, related to the word cuckold绿帽男 — a man whose wife has other lovers, is a scientific term used by naturalists to describe a pattern of behavior observed in the females of several species. Naturalists have found that these females choose a mate to care for their offspring but, whenever possible, they mate with the fittest males to be bred by them in order to have genetically superior offspring. Mind you, that these females don’t do for pleasure, they do it because this is necessary to increase the possibilities of survival of their species.