Moments In Flow

Tag: commitment

  • Two Is Honest, Three Is a Roster: A Structural Rule for Playboys in Bounded Communities

    The question is not moral Start by discarding the moral framing, because it makes the question unanswerable. The question is not whether a man should be allowed to date multiple women. Adults are allowed. The question is what a bounded community does to a man who dates within it, and how many concurrent partners a…

  • The Mating Mismatch

    How Contemporary Society Breeds Confusion, Not Connection The Conditional Logic of Human Mating Human mating runs on conditional logic. Robert Trivers laid this out in 1972 with his theory of parental investment: any cost a parent bears that increases one offspring’s survival chances at the expense of investing in other offspring. The sex that invests…