Despite the salacious title and subtitle, Insatiable Wives: Women Who Stray and the
Men Who Love Them, is actually a very balanced, fair, and honest look at
the complex role female sexuality plays in our culture and men’s reactions to
it.
Research David Ley has provided a very broad study
of what is traditionally known as cuckoldry, from historical, biological,
evolutionary, and social frameworks.
These are a great many categories to marshal, but Ley manages to give us
a view into each with great skill.
His overriding message may be that this phenomenon
is far more complex than we envision.
There are interlocking issues of female sexuality and choice, male power,
control, and lack of control, and a mix of complex drives which make
heterosexual couples make non-traditional sexual choices.
He is also very correct in pointing out that
non-traditional couple arrangements are usually denounced from a social or
religious outlook, and not from the evidence of scientific studies. This book aptly shows how hard science must
work to break free of our taboos and prejudices.
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