"I feel like we've inherited a tradition based on formerly practical mores where female infidelity was more strictly censured because men were once the providers and wished to avoid the burden of raising offspring not their own."

And yet again, we blame the men.

What I find fascinating is that females are just as protective of female sexuality as men, if not more so. I hear far more women throwing out "slut" as an insult than men. Could this be a product of male-induced society? Maybe.......... But how simplistic. And I, for one, don't totally believe it is an "unfounded" tradition. I believe monogamy, for the majority of people, makes a lot of sense in the long run. (Jealousy and betrayal are some of the uglier human emotions...)