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The research statistics makes us wonder "Am I
to understand that the older you get, the more likely to have an extrapair partner?"
Based on age, those under puberty with no partners
might bias the data so it's important to know the researchers' methods and motives.
The older one gets, the more probability life's
stresses, especially in the workplace or between spouses.
Feelings such as "Life is passing me by," human
curiosity, or sheer desperation in an intolerable situation, will send a person
into another's arms for comfort, confirmation, expanded horizons, or rescue.
That's often a good thing, and we should resist
judgment, and not confuse self-preservation with promiscuity.
Historians think that in biblical times, people
seldom lived beyond their fortieth birthday, and the "laws" about only one matrimony
made more sense than in today's world of longevity. Some people (males who remain
reproductively functional) live into their nineties.
If we only count teh female human's reproductive
years, from age fifteen to forty, that's only twenty five years, roughly the
length of one generation, and the time it takes for a human to mature.
A male's 90 year lifespan could encompass three
generations-worth of his offspring.
If you really want to get grossed out, the bible
suggests a widow must marry her husband's brother.
And we all know the bible's the infallible word
of God.
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E-mail: Mark Plimsoll