advantages and disadvantages of serial monogamy

Stelboum, PhD, is Associate Professor of English and teaches literature, Lesbian Studies, and Women’s Studies at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. Lesbians, already out of the mainstream of heterosexual life, still structure their own lives around these archaic and restrictive codes. The concepts of the impure body, the inferiority of women, importance of monogamy and marriage, and the negative ideas of sexuality have been so absorbed into all cultures that their origins as mainstays of patriarchal religions have been obscured, and these ideas have become accepted as the natural phenomenon of human relationships. The equating of sex, sin and death in Patriarchal JudeoChristian religions continues to affect the social and moral consciousness of Western societies.

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Advantages and disadvantages of serial monogamy