The mere idea of monogamy is absurd

Ok, let’s face it, it really is a truism more than anything else …
Close your eyes, take a deep breath, exhale … and be honest to yourself.

Amirite? No? Well, if you don’t agree by now this article won’t change your mind either, and that’s perfectly fine. My goal is to have a lively, open & honest discussion and maybe make some people think, that’s all … so here we go.
(ofc I could’ve started by quoting some studies that clearly show that monogamy is just a social construct that people have been sticking to just for the past 1000 years for economic reasons & religious overzealousness/ that in the animal world, only 3–5% of animals form monogamous relations, but if you want to go there, be my guest, google is your friend.)

1. The pizza argument

I know, I know, cliché … but true nonetheless. Say your favorite food in the whole world is pizza … once you’re an adult and have your own place, you eat pizza every freaking day for the first 3 weeks … after that, you decide to try another pizza — not your favorite anymore — one day with mushrooms, ham & salami the next day, you try out different pizza joints till you’ve tried them all … and despite pizza being the best thing ever, one day you will feel like eating a burger, a sandwich, a steak, stir-fried chicken or even some freaking mac & cheese … nothing fancy, nothing better than pizza, just SOMETHING ELSE than pizza, for fucks sake.
(Who in his/her right mind would eat just pizza every day for 20 years, or, God beware, for the rest of his/her life?).

2. The one-person-for-all argument
This — for me personally — is the most striking argument.
In my opinion, sex should be vibrant, exciting, new, adventurous, carefree, fun, spontaneous.
Now imagine you’re married, you have kids. You’ve been together for 20 years. First of all, there’s so much “baggage” from the past that hinders you to really have spontaneous sex, it’s a shame. But not just the past, think of the present: even though your relationship is going fine in general and you truly love your partner, there’s always fucking something: kids fought and screamed and then you’ve gotten into an argument because of that (different parenting approaches), taxes need to be filed, something at school, a bad day at work, misunderstandings, miscommunication, bickering over every-day unimportant bullshit (why didn’t you … I thought we agreed, that … you never … you always … every married person with kids knows exactly what I’m talking about.
So basically what I’m saying is: you are “too involved” with your partner to have really good sex because there’s always so much other stuff going on … or, in short: how the fuck can you be sexually attracted to someone who yelled at you for still not taking out the thrash 30mins ago? Comprende?
Its completely ok to play tennis with someone else, go watch a move, get a back-massage, go to the stadium and watch a football match together, go to a concert … in short: doing lots of different things that make you feel good with a different set of people is completely fine & accepted … but having SEX with someone else? Booh! Cheater! Traitor! Go to hell!
All I can say to that is: grow the fuck up and stop being so fucking possessive!
Also: grow a pair, for fucks sake, just because your gf/wife wanted to experience something else for once and someone else put his dingdong in her mumu doesn’t mean she doesn’t love you anymore / suddenly loves the other person at all … give me a fucking break!

3. The “people change/ people don’t change” argument
This is short & simple: people change. Maybe today you’re not into what you were 20, 10, 5 years ago. Or: you’re still into the exact same thing, but your partner isn’t anymore. Not even judging that one is right and the other is wrong, its just different … and sometimes the difference grows so large that there is (barely) no common ground left.
Its nobody’s fault, but it happens.

4. The “just” argument
You’ve all heard that saying: “lookout, he just wants to get into your pants” … why the “JUST”, though? What’s wrong with that? I see an issue if someone more experienced takes advantage of someone a lot younger by feigning love-feelings to trick a poor girl into bed … but besides that: come on … what is wrong with two adults having consensual sex JUST FOR FUN? As long as the intentions are clear for both parties involved from the beginning, where’s the issue? I feel that “fun-sex” has been stigmatized way too much, however, I cannot put my finger on a specific reason. Religion? Society?
(Not even going into the whole point how much harder this is for women: a guy who sleeps around is a “stud”, whereas a woman who does the same is soon called a “slut”, at best.)

5. EXTRA: true to yourself
This is something a friend said his buddy asked him:
“Say there’s this girl I fancy, I’d really like to sleep with her, she fancies me too and would also like to sleep with me. If I do, I’m being untrue to my girlfriend … however, if I don’t, I’m being untrue to myself … which one is worse?”

Ok, that’s it. This is my first medium article and I didn’t care for structure etc. and it is as I wrote it within 30mins. (some of you will say “it shows”, and they are not wrong) but if you would’ve tried to write it up in a rather “professional” way, I would have never written it in the end …
Looking forward to your thoughts/inputs 😉