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monogamous

[muh-nog-uh-muhs] / məˈnɒg ə məs /




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Monogamous MSM will no longer be automatically excluded.

From Science Magazine • May 17, 2023

Monogamous people may be worrying less about their love lives in the time of coronavirus.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2020

Monogamous marriage has, at least in industrialized societies, historically been the socially optimal marriage arrangement, in that it produces children with higher levels of human capital.

From Slate • Aug. 14, 2018

Monogamous marriage, by its very conditions . . . forces the two contracting parties into an intimacy that is too persistent and unmitigated; they are in contact at too many points, and too steadily.

From Salon • Apr. 10, 2016

Monogamous marriage, by its very conditions, tends to break down this strangeness.

From In Defense of Women by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)




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