Authors ask readers to 'revaluate' adultery

When you hear that a married couple have co-written a book, it is easy to presume it will be a story of love, monogamy and romance.

However, for Psychology Today blogger Christopher Ryan and his psychiatrist wife Cacilda Jetha, it was the concept of infidelity that got them putting pen to paper, thestar.com reports.

Due to be published this summer, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality touches upon the need for couples to readdress the practicality of having a monogamous relationship.

The couple conclude that adultery is something that has been documented in every human culture and that human organisms are pre-programmed to play away from home.

Mr Ryan told the news provider he believes that by falsely committing, whether knowingly or unknowingly, to an exclusive relationship, this leads to "unnecessary suffering".

His solution is that people embrace the likelihood of adultery at the start of their relationship, pushing back the boundaries of what is believed to be right and wrong in a marriage.

If the authors' words are taken heed of the need to keep extramarital relationships under wraps could become a thing of the past.

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