The Dangerous Passion

Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex

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  • Why
  • do
  • men
  • and
  • women
  • cheat
  • on
  • each
  • other?
  • How
  • do
  • men
  • really
  • feel
  • when
  • their
  • partners
  • have
  • sex
  • with
  • other
  • men?
  • What
  • worries
  • women
  • more
  • --
  • men
  • who
  • turn
  • to
  • other
  • women
  • for
  • love
  • or
  • men
  • who
  • simply
  • want
  • sexual
  • variety
  • in
  • their
  • lives?
  • Can
  • the
  • jealousy
  • husbands
  • and
  • wives
  • experience
  • over
  • real
  • or
  • imagined
  • infidelities
  • be
  • cured?
  • Should
  • it
  • be?
  • In
  • this
  • surprising
  • and
  • engaging
  • exploration
  • of
  • men's
  • and
  • women's
  • darker
  • passions,
  • David
  • Buss,
  • acclaimed
  • author
  • of
  • The
  • Evolution
  • of
  • Desire,
  • reveals
  • that
  • both
  • men
  • and
  • women
  • are
  • actually
  • designed
  • for
  • jealousy.
  • Drawing
  • on
  • experiments,
  • surveys,
  • and
  • interviews
  • conducted
  • in
  • thirty-seven
  • countries
  • on
  • six
  • continents,
  • as
  • well
  • as
  • insights
  • from
  • recent
  • discoveries
  • in
  • biology,
  • anthropology,
  • and
  • psychology,
  • Buss
  • discovers
  • that
  • the
  • evolutionary
  • origins
  • of
  • our
  • sexual
  • desires
  • still
  • shape
  • our
  • passions
  • today. According
  • to
  • Buss,
  • more
  • men
  • than
  • women
  • want
  • to
  • have
  • sex
  • with
  • multiple
  • partners.
  • Furthermore,
  • women
  • who
  • cheat
  • on
  • their
  • husbands
  • do
  • so
  • when
  • they
  • are
  • most
  • likely
  • to
  • conceive,
  • but
  • have
  • sex
  • with
  • their
  • spouses
  • when
  • they
  • are
  • least
  • likely
  • to
  • conceive.
  • These
  • findings
  • show
  • that
  • evolutionary
  • tendencies
  • to
  • acquire
  • better
  • genes
  • through
  • different
  • partners
  • still
  • lurk
  • beneath
  • modern
  • sexual
  • behavior.
  • To
  • counteract
  • these
  • desires
  • to
  • stray
  • --
  • and
  • to
  • strengthen
  • the
  • bonds
  • between
  • partners
  • --
  • jealousy
  • evolved
  • as
  • an
  • early
  • detection
  • system
  • of
  • infidelity
  • in
  • the
  • ancient
  • and
  • mysterious
  • ritual
  • of
  • mating. Buss
  • takes
  • us
  • on
  • a
  • fascinating
  • journey
  • through
  • many
  • cultures,
  • from
  • pre-historic
  • to
  • the
  • present,
  • to
  • show
  • the
  • profound
  • evolutionary
  • effect
  • jealousy
  • has
  • had
  • on
  • all
  • of
  • us.
  • Only
  • with
  • a
  • healthy
  • balance
  • of
  • jealousy
  • and
  • trust
  • can
  • we
  • be
  • certain
  • of
  • a
  • mate's
  • commitment,
  • devotion,
  • and
  • true love.
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