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December 11, 2009
Newsweek Slut: Monogamy Is For Losers
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at December 11, 2009 4:14 PM
We right-wingers have a stereotype of the social left that they put sexual gratification ahead of every other personal value. We stereotype left-wingers as hedonists, who disdain personal responsibility, and who would rather lower everyone's values to the lowest common denominator than try to raise people to a higher standard.
This stereotype is pretty much validated on a daily basis. Today, we read that Jenny Block, who writes for the dying left-wing publication Newsweek, writes that the answer to adultery is... to not have any expectations of commitment or monogamy in marriage.
She describes her own "marriage" as a sort of perpetual 70's key party, with the cliched 21st Century bisexual twist.
First we both dated the same woman. Then my husband dated her and I saw other people. And then they broke up and I dabbled until I met a woman, who like my husband, I cannot imagine being without. And so now it's her and me and him and him and me, and we are all fabulous friends. Everyone gets their needs met. No one feels left out or guilty, and the only time any of us questions our lifestyle is when we let those Disney movies come creeping back into our heads."
In other words, it's not adultery if nobody cares.
Some of us still naively believe that commitment to one person is a worthwhile ideal, that it spares one from the danger of STD's, and provides a stable environment to raise children who *won't* grow up to be sociopaths. But we are also the kind of people who don't believe in killing babies for the sake of sexual gratification; that's how screwed up our values are.
Also, there was a time when people would only write about the wonders of open marriage in the kind of magazines whose pages stick together. But one of the triumphs of the social left has been to make it acceptable for once respectable magazines like Newsweek to express this stuff.
