Female libido is inherently polyamorous. Women are aroused by novelty.

An excellent article on another blogger’s site picks up this same theme and looks at it from a different angle.

In my recent post, “Pretty Boys Finish First”, I make the argument that science shows that it is probable that the biological ideal for women is multiple partners-a loving, supportive, live-in or community of such, and the for sexual encounters at peak fertility. Link to that post is here.

How appropriate that the very next day, artist, thinker and Dr. Kaye Smith PhD should then post “Did Monogamy Eat the Female Libido?” which not just touches on that same conclusion but adds important nuance and colour, and takes the concept in several new directions. Her article suggests that female desire is enhanced by non-monogamy.

You can find the link to her article here.

This is so important but leads to so many different possible avenues of discussion, it will be hard to stick to the point. I will do my best, as each merits a future post. As I see it, these are the key points that such a post raise:

• If female desire, arousal, is driven by novelty (in terms of new partners), then women’s biology is programmed for adultery;
• If this is true, it is true because our species’s survival depends on it-we are collectively better off when our biology is allowed to express itself;