I don't get what's so hard to understand. Mistresses has been the way men have gotten down for the entire stretch of humanity. The idea of 1 monogamous relationship is fairly new. You look at tribes or even biblical times - men didn't just smash and dash all the time. They had multiple wives or mistresses that where essentially mini wives. You look at the behaviour of many Jamaican and African men - it's multiple families.
The allure is clear. I don't think men are built to have monogamous relationships like that but I don't think rampant casual sex comes natural to men either for many reasons. Spreading your seed or willy-nilly with women you don't care for isn't wise. Sex is better when you have great chemistry with someone and you build on it. It's very difficult for 1 person to meet all of your emotional demands too. For men, multiple wives is the thing that makes the most sense imo. Mistresses is the closest thing in the Western world.
Again, this treating side pieces with contempt is a relatively new phenomenon. It's natural for a man to look after women they love and provide for her. The wife literally owns half but the mistresses will get looked after too. Plus you don't want the mistress to rock the boat too much. Also, again I think it's natural for a man to want to spend time with women he is intimate with. Even if it's a secondary or even third.
A lot of men who have mistresses still love their wives, at least in their minds. but they love the side piece too and treat each with as much respect as they can considering their actions.
IMO it's the leaving the wife and marrying a younger model is the thing I don't understand unless the wife has become truly unbearable.
The allure is clear. I don't think men are built to have monogamous relationships like that but I don't think rampant casual sex comes natural to men either for many reasons. Spreading your seed or willy-nilly with women you don't care for isn't wise. Sex is better when you have great chemistry with someone and you build on it. It's very difficult for 1 person to meet all of your emotional demands too. For men, multiple wives is the thing that makes the most sense imo. Mistresses is the closest thing in the Western world.
Again, this treating side pieces with contempt is a relatively new phenomenon. It's natural for a man to look after women they love and provide for her. The wife literally owns half but the mistresses will get looked after too. Plus you don't want the mistress to rock the boat too much. Also, again I think it's natural for a man to want to spend time with women he is intimate with. Even if it's a secondary or even third.
A lot of men who have mistresses still love their wives, at least in their minds. but they love the side piece too and treat each with as much respect as they can considering their actions.
IMO it's the leaving the wife and marrying a younger model is the thing I don't understand unless the wife has become truly unbearable.