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Visit some stately homes in Britain and you may notice on bedroom doors small cardholders for namecards. This was so when there were many guests staying over people could find their lovers rooms.
In medieval England there was a term applied to certain children, a merrybegot. These shildren were the result of the Mayday revels, a Christianised relic of the pagan Beltane festival with its associated fertility rites. Their distinguishing feature was that they bore little or no resemblance to their Dads.
In the Victorian era even the most straight - laced gentleman saw no reason to refrain from having a mistress.
Monogamy, what's that?
This is an astoundingly context-free discussion of sexuality that occludes the diversity of sexual object choice. Heterosexism prevails, even from a mental health professional with a caring, feminist-ish bent. And did he even answer the question in the headline?
