When seventeenth-century Jesuit missionary Paul Le Jeune lectured a Montagnais Indian man about the dangers of the rampant infidelity he’d witnessed, Le Jeune received a lesson on proper parenthood in response. The missionary recalled: ‘I told him that it was not honorable for a woman to love anyone else except her husband, and that this evil being among them, he himself was not sure that his son, who was there present, was his son. He replied, ‘Thou hast no sense. You French people love only your own children; but we all love all the children of our tribe.’
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Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (via daveomitchell)
read an EXCELLENT article on polyamory inbetween counseling sessions today. MUST GET THROUGH 15 HELLISH DAYS! and then it’s all relaxation and leisure reading.
Posted December 3, 2011 at 7:09pm
