Nick Cannon: "I don't think monogamy is healthy"

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

During an appearance on The Language of Love podcast with Dr. Laura Berman on Wednesday, the star, 41, opened up about a variety of topics surrounding his love life, including his views on monogamy and whether or not all of his eight children were planned.

"I'm never gonna say that," Cannon said when Dr. Berman asked if "most of these pregnancies were unplanned."

"I'm going to take full responsibility. Any woman that I know that I have unprotected sex with, there's the potential to have a child," continued Cannon. "So I feel like if I have unprotected sex with anyone I know – because one, I value everything about me so much, if I've gotten to that point where I say, 'I can take off this condom,' I'm gonna say, 'She could be the mother of my child.' "

But having unprotected sex is not something he does with everyone as Cannon explains, "I'm the biggest germ freak in the world." 

"Every woman that I have a child with, there is definitely a conversation about, 'Wow, how amazing would this be?' I feel like every woman I have a child with are amazing mothers, and there was a thought process going into like, 'Man, she would be an amazing mother, she's desired children, I can't wait to see what type of mother she would be.' "

Added Cannon: "So, in saying that, I would say that they're all planned."

Additionally, while talking about polyamory, the former America's Got Talent host touched on monogamy, telling Dr. Berman that he only considers himself or someone else as "not single" if they are married.

"Married is not single. When you allow the government and paperwork to come in and say, 'This is a bond, this is a covenant' … you're not single."

"You can still make covenants without getting the government involved, where two people say, 'We choose to be monogamous because we value this so much, we don't want anyone to be a part of this energy we have,' and I don't feel like that's healthy," continued Cannon. "I don't think monogamy is healthy. I feel like that gets into the space of selfishness and ownership."

Cannon is dad to 10-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe, whom he shares with ex-wife Mariah Carey; 4-year-old Golden "Sagon" and 14-month-old Powerful Queen, whom he shares with Brittany Bell; and 7-month-old twins, Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir, whom he shares with Abby De La Rosa.

His youngest son, Zen, whom he shares with model Alyssa Scott, died at just 5 months old in December last year after he was diagnosed with brain cancer. 

In January, Cannon announced that he is expecting his eighth child with model Bre Tiesi.

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Do you agree with him that monogamy is to be associated with selfishness and ownership?

Does it go against our evolutionary purpose to just procreate without man-made institutions and contracts getting involved? 

[Sepsami 18,915]

Lets agree to disagree on that one 

[Ikvs 2,576]

I absolutely hate people who are like this. If you don't want to practice monogamy, go ahead, idc. But the problem starts when you try to attack monogamy because of your own decisions. Can't you not understand that there's been millions of people being happy in a monogamous relationship? lol

[sillynate 6,170]

4 minutes ago, TimisaMonster said:

"I don't think monogamy is healthy. I feel like that gets into the space of selfishness and ownership."

He’s a Cupcakke stan 

from Vag*na by Cupcakke 

“Freak lil' bi*ch, I'm sorry I can't help it. He don't want me fu*king nobody else, he selfish” 

no but seriously this dude has a fetish for getting women pregnant that’s what I get from this 

[PlastiscGuy 21,176]

I never understood that narrative. If you're not ready to commit to a serious relationship (from a normative point of view) and have one partner, then that's good for you. But let's not judge others who aren't interested in having more than one single partner, maybe?  

Like, I've seen and heard many awful and illogical arguments as to why monogamy is bad, just to defend polygamy.

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

11 minutes ago, Ikvs said:

I absolutely hate people who are like this. If you don't want to practice monogamy, go ahead, idc. But the problem starts when you try to attack monogamy because of your own decisions. Can't you not understand that there's been millions of people being happy in a monogamous relationship? lol

Not even that...even in the ANIMALS practice monogamy, so it doesn't stem from a human concept...if you think about it...raising a human is at least a 20-year investment so biologically it makes sense that the parents stay together to help raise the child to maturity. It's not like a cat or dog 

If it's a matter of not having the sexual freedom then people have made open relationships way more common these days but still have a level of commitment without feeling "owned"

[RahrahWitch 6,985]

9 minutes ago, TimisaMonster said:

"I don't think monogamy is healthy. I feel like that gets into the space of selfishness and ownership."

Nah, It's not healthy for him personally because he doesn't want a monogamous relationship. There's no ownership/selfishness involved if both partners want to be exclusive to each other.

This is typical "I don't like it so nobody else should"

[Pennywise 36,079]

16 minutes ago, TimisaMonster said:

But having unprotected sex is not something he does with everyone as Cannon explains

the 34127831682386128 children he breeds each year says otherwise 

[LunaUniverse 3,901]

How about just letting people decide how they want to be happy in a relationship 

Although it’s hard to take him seriously saying this when he was actively seeking out other women to have children with while having an ill child at the same time that needed him most 

[Guest]

Untrue. The truth is some people cannot be with just one person, and some can. None of them are unhealthy, as long as you are honest and don't tell lies cause that'd be cheating and betrayal. Monogamy can be very healthy when two people love each other a lot and love the consistency of having one person in their lives forever. For some, they just can't, because they just can't find novelty and passion in it. In the end, it's about the people who are lucky and found their soulmates, and those who can't but they'd rather stay with one person, and those who just see relationships as fun, and/or they fall out of love fast and fall in love easily with others. It happens, to be honest, sometimes you can't just know what will happen in your life, who you will meet etc

[AVeryGagaHolyDick 25,754]

Considering he's giving lots of details about his own story, don't you think he's talking about himself when he says it's not healthy? Cause I don't find it shocking at all, it's not like he criticized anyone

[holy scheisse 22,275]

Just cuz nick is polyamorous doesn’t mean he’s criticizing all you people for being monogamous lol do you booboos

 

i don’t think monogamy is inherently good or bad. I don’t think it’s morally superior to polyamory. In theory polyamory sounds like what I’d want in life but in practice emotions like jealousy always get in the way for me lol

[Blackout19 12,061]

I mean, at this point this world is so weird, that nothing surprise me. 

 

[Oriane 21,118]

1 hour ago, TimisaMonster said:

I feel like every woman I have a child with are amazing mothers

And are you a good father? It's always hard to raise one child, I can't imagine what it's like to raise 54618 children at once, if he is even involved in the first place.

48 minutes ago, holy scheisse said:

Just cuz nick is polyamorous doesn’t mean he’s criticizing all you people for being monogamous lol do you booboos

"I don't think monogamy is healthy" that's exactly what he's saying 

[FATCAT 60,099]

Not everything is healthy for everyone. If he's not capable of being faithful in a monogamous relationship, then that's never going to be a healthy monogamous relationship.