Polygamy

**Duke Malcolm** · 04-05-2006, 18:40

The two things that separate barbarians from civilised folks are the number of wives one has and the way one holds a knife...

**Major Robert Dump** · 04-05-2006, 19:01

Women are too jealous. It wouldnt work, they would kill each other, or the man. And if we revert back to primal instinct then its also primal instinct to upgrade to new improved 22 year old wives as soon as the old wives hit 40, so women would not see any security in such an arrangment in the longterm and would be less likely to enter.

Imagine having to go through a divorce with 5 wives, you'd be living in a cardboard box.

I think something like this would only work with a man who was filthy rich and only courted girls from trailer parks, or, in backwards, stone age societies where the women worship the men and take things like the bible literally and make butter all day.

**yesdachi** · 04-05-2006, 19:17

Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump

I think something like this would only work with a man who was filthy rich and only courted girls from trailer parks, or, in backwards, stone age societies where the women worship the men and take things like the bible literally and make butter all day.

Mmmmm... Butter.

**doc_bean** · 04-05-2006, 19:17

Even in countries where it is allowed, polygamy is a marginal phenomena. There just aren't enough women to make it work on a large scale.

On a sidenote, I heard there were places in india where one woman could have several husbands...

**Banquo's Ghost** · 04-05-2006, 19:28

Originally Posted by doc_bean

On a sidenote, I heard there were places in india where one woman could have several husbands...

Polyandry is found in Tibet, and I believe in parts of Nepal. Linky

**Faust|** · 04-05-2006, 21:04

That would be a funny sight, watching your successful intellectual trying to handle 5 beautiful women. That right there would be an argument itself against polygamy in modernized nations.

**GoreBag** · 04-05-2006, 23:02

Originally Posted by doc_bean

On a sidenote, I heard there were places in india where one woman could have several husbands...

That is also polygamy, specifically polyandry. DA's example deals only with polygyny...for some reason.

I wholeheartedly support polygamy in marriage and lifestyle. I just don't support Mormonism. There was a report published up here a while ago that said that maintaining the status quo of polygamy (read: the illegality) would be unconstitutional. Things may change if the Mormons make enough noise.

**Byzantine Mercenary** · 04-05-2006, 23:24

Originally Posted by GoreBag

That is also polygamy, specifically polyandry. DA's example deals only with polygyny...for some reason.

I wholeheartedly support polygamy in marriage and lifestyle. I just don't support Mormonism. There was a report published up here a while ago that said that maintaining the status quo of polygamy (read: the illegality) would be unconstitutional. Things may change if the Mormons make enough noise.

I thought that mormans have stopped practicing polygamy?

**GoreBag** · 04-05-2006, 23:32

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has, but they're a split-off group of the main Mormon church, however more popular than the main church that the CoJCoLDS (heh...) has grown. There are also a great deal of churches split off from the big one with the long name, so it's hard to track how many Mormon polygamists there are besides looking into the main church.

In any case, the USA has plenty of them in the Midwest, often fewer than investigations reveal because of the sensitive, illegal nature of the problem, which tends to form closed communities. Canada's largest Mormon polygamist settlement numbers at around 3000 people, somewhere in BC.

**Papewaio** · 04-05-2006, 23:52

On the other side of the debate are countries where men outnumber women:

Men 'can only marry with sister'

LONG, twirling moustaches and bejewelled daggers are no longer enough for a man seeking to marry in India's desert state of Rajasthan, long considered a land of fearless warriors.

But if he is lucky enough to have a sister, he can relax, a newspaper report said.
A declining sex ratio in the state is prompting a girl's parents to spurn offers of marriage from men unless the potential groom's family also has a marriageable daughter for their son, the Sunday Express said.

"Around 30 per cent of the marriages in the past year in Shekhawati region of Rajasthan were fixed on this swap system," local lawmaker Rajendra Chauhan said.

The sex ratio in many of Rajasthan's districts has dropped to 922 girls for every 1000 boys, according to the last census. In one or two villages, it has plummeted to less than 500, the paper reported.