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Live forever, become a polygamist

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 22 August, 2008 to the comment subset

Men who "practice" polygamy tend to live longer than men who lead a monogamous lifestyle. I'm not endorsing a lifestyle of polygamy by the way, I'm simply sharing the results of scientific research here. After accounting for socioeconomic differences, men aged over 60 from 140 countries that practice polygamy to varying degrees lived on average 12% longer than men from 49 mostly monogamous nations, says Virpi Lummaa, an ... Read full entry

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Pairs With Spares

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 10 March, 2008 to the comment subset

Pairs With Spares A Polyamorist's web of connections looks more like the six-degrees-of-separation associations found on social networks... So, for a while she lived with Jim, and they loved each other and they drove each other batty. (“He used to work for the NRA and I hate guns.") Then she met Tim, who was more on her wavelength, and now they live together, but she still sees Jim ... Read full entry

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