Men were never expected to be monogamous.

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

I don't think people should do things that make them miserable. And if being an in-shape, sober, monogamous heterosexual makes you miserable, don't do it. And if being an in-shape, sober, monogamous heterosexual makes you happy, do it.

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.