For the purposes of this discussion alone I am proposing the definition of monogamy as: “The social practice of having only one sexual partner for life.”
Now, before you throw rotten tomatoes at me, I realise that what I am actually defining would be closer to ‘Mon-amory’. But since we are going to be contrasting monogamy with polyamory, one of the two definitions has to change in order for them to contrast. And since, as I will argue, polygamy as traditionally understood and idealised is itself a contradiction to modern ideas of ‘polyamory’, we’re going to have to morph the definition of ‘monogamy’ to fit the discussion
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