Men’s lack of paternity certainty is a fundamental sex inequality. Modern DNA testing, if applied systematically, could provide gender equality in knowledge of biological offspring. The social construction of legal paternity has defied reason, common sense, and justice. That indicates men’s subordinate social and political position with respect to vital aspects of ordinary life.
In 14th-century Byzantium, Nikephoros Gregoras urged a husband-friend to accept his being cuckolded as the natural order in marrying a beautiful woman. … Read the post Nikephoros Gregoras to husband being cuckolded by beautiful wife
Samuel Johnson, a distinguished English literary intellectual, and James Boswell, Johnson’s popular & acclaimed biographer, discussed sexual behavior. … Read the post Johnson and Boswell on sexual behavior in the Age of Enlightenment
Studies of cuckolding (“extra-pair paternity”) must be appraised with appreciation for Brezhnev-era Soviet intellectual life. … Read the post studies of cuckolding in beyond Brezhnev-era Soviet intellectual life
Impotent men willing to be husbands tolerant of cuckolding can benefit greatly from their wives’ strong, independent sexuality. … Read the post being cuckolded is impotent husbands’ best hope for future
Francis Osborne’s Advice to a Son, a 17th-century English book that circulated widely among the English elite, addressed the four seas law of cuckoldry. … Read the post four seas law of cuckoldry in Osborne’s 17th-century Advice