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Jun 2025
18m 13s

Is Monogamy a Lie?

Zoë Lilou
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If monogamy is so natural, why does everyone cheat?
In this episode, we dig into the truth behind cheating - not as a moral failure, but as a symptom. Of repression. Of patriarchy. Of a system designed by religion and control.

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