Men not built to be committed to one woman

Senegalese-American singer, Akon has said men are not naturally wired to be committed to one woman romantically.

The 53-year-old singer said this in a chat with The Shade Room.

Akon noted that God created a man to populate and staying glued to just one woman defeats that purpose.

He said, “Men aren’t committed. We’re not built to be committed.

“We’re natural breeders by nature, right? Okay. We populate because that’s how God created us. So we can’t be committed to one, two, three. That’s not ours; we’re not wired to be committed.”

However, the Lonely crooner argued that a man did not have to be committed to one woman to be faithful.

He explained, “Faithfulness is something totally different. I could be with a chick and be with her forever through all the problems.

“No matter what, I can find the baddest chick alive and have my main chick, and I’m just using this as an example.”

He added, “I could be in a hotel, and she busts down the door, and I’m knee-deep in there, and I’m going to jump off and be like, ‘Babe, I don’t even know her.’ She’s out of here. Like, I wouldn’t even know her. She means nothing to me because this is what I’m faithful to.

“But just hear me out. How many men do you know who will fight for that one because of the mistake they made with something that didn’t matter to them? That’s faithfulness. That’s creating that energy to fight for it. Now commitment, we are guilty. We’re not committed. We’ll be with multiple women.

“That’s just who we are. We can’t; that’s nature. Nature created that. We didn’t create that. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be a coincidence that every single woman on this planet, if they have a problem with their spouse, it’s over another woman. Think about it.”

Akon, whose real name is Aliaune Thiam, has been open about his belief in polygamy.

In a 2022 interview on The Zeze Mills Show, he confirmed he is the father of nine children but stopped short of disclosing how many women birthed them.

In September 2025, his wife Tomeka Thiam filed for divorce after 28 years of marriage citing irreconcilable differences.