Ehhhh no, I mean, the modern conception of monogamy is increasingly euro-centric around the world, but it totally existed independently in most places, even in historically matrilineal cultures. But sometimes certain small ethnic groups would have elements of polyandry or polygyny adapted to local conditions. These are what’s being lost to history.
Modern polyamory is in the lineage of a very middle class liberal (and at times utopian socialist) reaction to cultural alienation that can be traced back to the Free Love movement of the 18th and 19th centuries. Elements of this movement made their way into Anarchist circles in the 1890s and have stuck around in the western left ever since.
Ehhhh no, I mean, the modern conception of monogamy is increasingly euro-centric around the world, but it totally existed independently in most places, even in historically matrilineal cultures. But sometimes certain small ethnic groups would have elements of polyandry or polygyny adapted to local conditions. These are what’s being lost to history.
Modern polyamory is in the lineage of a very middle class liberal (and at times utopian socialist) reaction to cultural alienation that can be traced back to the Free Love movement of the 18th and 19th centuries. Elements of this movement made their way into Anarchist circles in the 1890s and have stuck around in the western left ever since.