{"product_id":"monogamy","title":"Monogamy","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A couple is a conspiracy in search of a crime. Sex is often the closest they can get.' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll  the present controversies about the family are really discussions about  monogamy. About what keeps people together and why they should stay  together. Now, in a book of 121 aphorisms, Adam Phillips asks why we all  believe in monogamy, and why we find it so difficult to think about. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryone  knows that most people, however much they may love their partner, are  capable of loving and desiring more than one person at a time. It may be  reassuring, but it is in fact very demanding -- and often cruel -- to  assume that only one person can give us what we want. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt least  in sexual matters, sharing seems to go deeply against the grain.  Monogamy is so much taken for granted as the foundation of the family  and of family values that, as with anything that seems essential, we are  very wary of being critical of it. But, as Adam Phillips suggests, it  is surely worth wondering why the faithful couple has such a hold on our  imagination, and how it has come to be such an ideal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54243956293976,"sku":"9780571179893","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571179893_d3576535-dd45-4297-a8ba-796c87182b9e.jpg?v=1765958437","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/monogamy","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}