People do not feel a need to register and seek permission for their relationships with the church, that doesn&#x27;t mean they aren&#x27;t having them.<p>&gt;The west has been in a soft-polygamy system since no-fault divorce was instigated.<p>What? Are you implying that seeking a new partner after divorce is polygamy?<p>&gt;Thus, young average men enter into marriage with women assuming lifelong monogamy, and are surprised to find their wives spending time with above average men.<p>You&#x27;re implying that only women cheat in significant numbers, which is where the misogyny accusation comes from. A quick Google shows competing statistics claiming a slight lead in both directions, which leads me to believe the infidelity rates are about equal.<p>If you&#x27;re looking for an explanation of why civilizations that share your values are doing so well compared to everyone else, you need to first consider the hypothesis that your supposed inferiors were actually doing fine until colonial powers that share your values decided to forcefully exploit them. Moral explanations of how only societies ruled by white Christian capitalist men can ever prosper are an entire genre of pseudoscience and generally discredited in the modern world.