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On monogamy

I would like it if people didn’t describe their relationships as “monogamous” when they mean something quite different.

“There is no such thing as sexual competition, there is only the continual coming to terms with the fact that[…]

One antonym of monogamy is infidelity. A spouse who is well and truly monogamous is said to be “faithful”; one[…]