Darwin And The Double Standard

August, 1978

Darwin and the Double StandardWe accept these truths as self-evident, that all men are created equal and that given a choice of several females, the red-blooded male wants them all. Sex researcher Alfred Kinsey reported that 72 percent of married men yearned for extramarital affairs. "The human male," he wrote, "would be promiscuous . . . throughout the whole of his life if there were no social restrictions." And he needed a survey to tell him that. Men often speak of the joy...