A Healthy Society As a Model for Understanding Infidelity

Looking at a couple’s relationship as a microcosm of society can be an effective way to apply what functions well in a society to that couple’s relationship. It is also a great way to understand men and women just a little bit better. Understanding your partner and your partner’s innate desires can lead to a much healthier relationship and may also avert any potential for infidelity before it ever happens.

If something truly functions well in making a happy and harmonious society, then applying it to your relationship may be very effective. If something isn’t healthy on a societal level, it isn’t likely so healthy for your relationship either. So what makes a healthy, harmonious, peaceful, and productive society? Let’s take a lesson from the world book and see if we can apply it to a relationship to prevent any need for infidelity.

While some western cultures have a tendency for operating in ways that are relatively unnatural, unhealthy, violent, and dysfunctional, some of the world’s cultures have actually maintained a healthy connection with their natural instincts in a modern and productive manner. So what is this magic formula that makes some cultures so harmonious and functional, while other cultures seem relatively dysfunctional and repressed?

It’s surprisingly pretty simple and it may be rather shocking. You just take the innate genetic desires of man and combine them with the innate genetic desires of woman. At the basic level, women generally desire long term financial stability and men generally desire regular sexual fulfillment. The truth is that the special aspect unique to these healthy and harmonious societies, surprisingly enough, is a healthy and regulated sex industry. It is a simple and amazingly efficient social system based on fulfilling the basic desires of both parties without any unnecessary judgment interfering in the happiness of either party. Perhaps even more amazingly, in these cultures it is actually a relatively innocent industry as it is socially accepted, regulated, and is generally seen as simply fulfilling the natural desire to relieve stress. As a result, the men are extraordinarily productive in the workplace and the society is extraordinarily harmonious. In addition, the rates for dangerous crimes are a fraction of what they are in more repressed cultures, and STD’s are also relatively rare. If you really ponder the dynamics, is it really so surprising? Just about any primate society would be harmonious if all of the females felt safe and provided for, and all of the males felt sexually fulfilled.

So how do you apply this to your relationship? What we learn from this example is that for a man to be productive and supply the long term stability that women usually desire, the man’s desires need to be properly fulfilled on a regular basis. Sex is actually rather innocent, healthy, and enjoyable when it is not repressed. Humans will generally do what is necessary to fulfill their innate natural desires and more repressed they feel, the more distorted their physical desires tend to become. This is really easy to prevent as men have pretty simple needs in a relationship. It really comes down to loving physical contact and emotional support.

If you satisfy his sexual and emotional needs, he will find it much easier to be productive and focus on fulfilling your needs. He will also be much less likely to go looking for another woman to satisfy his body’s quest for satisfaction.