Published in a highly underrated 1934 book called “Sex and Culture,” the anthropologist J.D. Unwin found a universal correlation between monogamy and a civilization’s “expansive energy.” His aim in the book was to test the Freudian thesis that advanced civilizations were founded upon repression of sexual desire, and a re-channeling of this energy through a defense mechanism Freud called “sublimation.”
A non-Christian, and as relativistic as any modern anthropologist, he insisted that he offered “no opinion about rightness or wrongness” concerning sexual norms. Nevertheless, among the 86 different societies he studied, he not only found monogamy to be correlated with a society’s strength...
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