Inspired by the recent Jordan Peterson article in the NYT, what does the phrase "enforced monogamy" mean in Anthropological terms? (x-post from r/AskAnthropology)

by Motor_Mortis

This questions is inspired by a recent NYT article in which in a response to the recent van attack in Toronto Jordan Peterson according to the NYT stated

He was angry at God because women were rejecting him. The cure for that is enforced monogamy. That’s actually why monogamy emerges.

In Peterson's defense of the phrase he quotes a statement from an article by Ben Shapiro.

“enforced monogamy” does not mean government-enforced monogamy. “Enforced monogamy” means socially-promoted, culturally-inculcated monogamy, as opposed to genetic monogamy – evolutionarily-dictated monogamy, which does exist in some species (but does not exist in humans). This distinction has been present in anthropological and scientific literature for decades.

Is this phrase, as it is defined above, commonly used in the field of anthropology like Peterson and Shapiro suggest?

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What do you think?

Also, I'm pretty sure this does not fall within this sub's constraint on recent events, nor its scope. You could try reposting the question on /r/AskSocialScience and maybe you would get a better response.