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What is my opinion on open relationships, polyamory, other forms of non-monogamy? Well, I think that as a medium to long-term strategy, they’re completely untenable. Because human beings, as far as I’m concerned, are fundamentally pair bonding. And, you know, if you’re just talking about casual sex, first of all, I think casual sex is a contradiction in terms. I don’t think there’s anything about sex that’s casual. And I think that people are deceiving themselves badly whenever they think so. They might like to live in a, you know, 1970s playboy adolescent fantasy, but I’ve never seen that work under any circumstances whatsoever. And I think people get hurt badly. It’s also a bad medium to long-term strategy because, you know, pair bonding is the most stable arrangement we know of, at least so far. Well, I won’t even put it that way. It’s the only stable mode of being that we know for the long run. And that’s especially the case when you bring children into the equation. So, I think it’s delusional fundamentally. And I think that people who believe that such things work, I mean, sometimes they’re open people and they’re creative and they’re exploratory and all of that. And fair enough. But often they’re just unconscious and they don’t want to take any responsibility. And they want to live in this wish fulfillment fantasy where everybody can have all the sex they want all the time. And it’s always wonderful and no one gets hurt. And it’s like, sorry, that just doesn’t work in the real world.