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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: monogamy gap
    sub title: men, love, and the reality of cheating
  name:
    name part: Anderson, Eric
    name part: 1968-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: dissertations.
  genre: Academic theses
  genre: Academic theses.
  genre: Thèses et écrits académiques.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: "Whether straight or gay, most men start their relationships desiring monogamy. This is rooted in the pervasive notion that monogamy exists as a sign of true love. Yet despite this deeply held cultural ideal, cheating remains rampant. In this accessible book, Eric Anderson investigates why 78% of men he interviewed have cheated despite their desire not to. Combining 120 interviews with research from the fields of sociology, biology, and psychology, Anderson identifies cheating as a product of wanting emotional passion for one's partner, along with a steadily growing desire for emotionally-detached recreational sex with others. Anderson coins the term "the monogamy gap" to describe this phenomenon. Anderson suggests that monogamy is an irrational ideal because it fails to fulfill a lifetime of sexual desires. Cheating therefore becomes the rational response to an irrational situation. The Monogamy Gap draws on a range of concepts, theories, and disciplines to highlight the biological compulsion of our sexual urges, the social construction of the monogamous ideal, and the devastating chasm that lies between them. Whether single or married, monogamous or open, straight or gay, readers will find The Monogamy Gap to be an enlightening, intellectually compelling, and provocative book."--Provided by publisher
  table of contents: Overview of the research -- Developing a critique of monogamy -- About the study -- The hardening and softening of men -- The science of sexual attraction -- The development of romantic relationships -- Categorizing monogamy types -- Monogamism -- The monogamy gap -- Costs of monogamism -- Jealousy -- Liberation from monogamous missionary sex -- Prevalence of cheating -- Spontaneous cheating -- Cheating out of love -- Counter currents -- Conclusions.
  note: Eric Anderson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Men
    topic: Sexual behavior
  subject:
    topic: Monogamous relationships
  subject:
    topic: Sex
  subject:
    topic: Love
  subject:
    topic: Sexual Behavior
  subject:
    topic: Love
  subject:
    topic: Hommes
    topic: Sexualité
  subject:
    topic: Monogamie
  subject:
    topic: Sexualité
  subject:
    topic: Amour
  subject:
    topic: sexuality
  subject:
    topic: love (emotion)
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Sociology
    topic: Marriage & Family
  subject:
    topic: Love
  subject:
    topic: Men
    topic: Sexual behavior
  subject:
    topic: Monogamous relationships
  subject:
    topic: Sex
  classification: HQ28 .A53 2012eb
  classification: 306.84/22081
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      title: Monogamy gap
    name:
      name part: Anderson, Eric, 1968-
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012
    identifier: (DLC) 2011005352
    identifier: (OCoLC)702357836
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 120126
    record change date: 20260318185523.1
    record identifier: in00005707118
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng