Inspired by the culture’s latest cheating scandals, the girlies unpack monogamy as a social norm and explore what happens when we break the rules. They explore theories of mononormativity, investigate the psychological consequences of being cheated on, and try to answer a pressing question: why are we still attempting monogamy if people keep having affairs? Digressions include the NYC earthquake, kindhearted midwesterners, and one listener’s love of Hoop.
SOURCES:
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Anatomy of Love
Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence
Forgiveness of Sexual Cheating in Romantic Relationships
Greater Wealth Inequality, Less Polygyny: Rethinking the Polygyny Threshold Model
Love Is Not a Permanent State of Enthusiasm: An Interview with Esther Perel
Once A Cheater, Always A Cheater? Marriage Therapists Weigh In
Post Infidelity Stress Disorder
Sex at Dawn
That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
The Aftershocks of Infidelity: A Review of Infidelity-Based Attachment Trauma
The Red Queen
Was That Cheating? Perceptions Vary by Sex, Attachment Anxiety, and Behavior
What’s Wrong With Infidelity?
25 Questions to Fall in Love *TEASER*
The Stoned Age
Silly History: Doomed From the Start *TEASER*
No Good, All Problem *TEASER*
Bruhtopia
Ugly Rights *TEASER*
Going, Boeing, Gone
I Paid $50,000 to Attend the Live Wonka Experience *TEASER*
My Year of Prolonged Suffering and Decrepitude
Bad Book Club: Fifty Shades of Fucked Up *TEASER*
The 2024 Valentine Hotline
Getting to the -core of It *TEASER*
We Are All Memes
Who's Afraid of Gypsy Rose?
We Give You A Princess
The 2023 Lowbrow Roundup
Saving the Body of Christ for Later
Baby's First Simulacra
Honey, I Monetized the Kids Again
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