Slashdot Mirror
Research Suggests Polygamous Men Live Longer
Calopteryx writes "Want to live a little longer? Get a second wife. A study reported in New Scientist suggests that men from polygamous cultures outlive those from monogamous ones. After accounting for socioeconomic differences, men aged over 60 from 140 countries that practice polygamy to varying degrees lived on average 12% longer than men from 49 mostly monogamous nations."
"Not only that, how does going from ONE nagging wife to TWO nagging wives make for longevity??"
It's not the nagging, it's the availability and frequency of sex and social support mechanisms knowing more people, being physically intimate with more people = deeper physiological relationships. Whenever I've been in bad relationships I've always been stressed out because of sex, everything else is secondary. To me (and probably a lot of other guys) when you don't get sex it's like your starving and it makes you agitated, depressed, angry, until you get some. It's like going hungry, it really really sucks.
It's also the reason why men commit sexual crimes, in our society men who have social issues and can't get laid very often are prone in their sexual frustration to commit crimes. The truth is, it's not the men's fault either. Its biologically wired into them from birth, it's just as bad as rape IMHO to deny men intimate contact for long periods of time. It's a kind of slow torture and it's cruel to those men and I wish that people would realize that. I would subsidize prostitutes if I could, we'd prevent the problem before they happened. Whether men realize it or not, sex is one of the primary ways of how we feel loved and recharged, and it's not good to go without sex for long periods of time unless your purposely training/trying to master yourself for some reason or your natural physiology doesn't make you feel awful. For most of us, it's torture to go without sex. Like slowly starving to death, and I wish people in the west and especially women realized that and were compassionate to do something about it.
The culture of the west has inherited a lot of strange behaviour and cultural ways of behaviong from are religious ancestors (christnaity, in north america), etc, puritanism. I mean we've seen all this kind of nonsense before in the 1800's where people thought masturbation needed to be "cured" and not that long ago homosexuals as socially degenerate / mentally ill / disturbed.
As expected from an AC.... no it's not women's fault, people totally misinterpreted my post and it got flagged, as usual, if something goes against the mainstream it gets flagged as troll.
"that you are describing is addiction, and buddy, it's nobody's fault but your own."
Bullshit it's no ones fault they are born a man and they socialize for a long time and go months without sex, obviously people here at slashdot have no background in criminology, you see different types of sex crimes for a whole host of different reasons.
"Your assertions boil down to 'it's the fault of the female sex that that woman get raped, because some other woman should've been around for the rapist to fuck instead'."
No they don't, note what I said: Hooker subsidy, or was this totally lost on you? i.e. disabled men and women have a much harder then the average person in maintaining relationships.
"Nobody is responsible for your physical well-being but yourself...."
Bla bla bla bla bla a bunch of western selfish-individualist anti-scientific nonsense, this was the whole point for subsidizing sex industry. Is a kid responsible for being born? or perhaps this (link below) kid should just "be responsible for his growth?", should a kid be responsible for having hormmones and a penis, how about his eyesight and ability to hear, or how about a large portion of his intelligence? Or maybe you should just hold in you shit and piss for the rest of your life? There is so much human being's can not control, and so much they don't know.
Kid who can't stop growing:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MedicalMysteries/story?id=5466774&page=1
"Have you heard of toilet training? Might be worth a try ;)"
LOL you know what I meant, sooner or later it's going to drive you crazy. :D