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Originally posted by Wulfhawk:
modern (last few thousand years or so) polygamy may have distant roots in evolutionary strategies, but is based on the concept of daughters and women as chattel. Chattel is not quite property. It refers to things that must be managed, like land, but are portable, like livestock.

Women as self-sufficient individuals is a fairly modern concept, only a few hundred years old. Women as self-determining persons is very new, something like a century. Just look around outside the US, you'll see what it was like.

Most religions are male-centric, with the diety, prophets, and representatives restricted to males. I'm not versed in the multitude of bibles, but most were clearly written by and for men. Recall that biblical king David had 400+ wives.

woops, lunch over, more later


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Originally posted by Wulfhawk:
Polygamy, as practiced historically, was expensive, and a sure way to piss off the other men of your community.
I think that polygamy was never encouraged, and except as a reward or charitable necessity(taking in of widows), limited to the top men of their times. They didn't have Ferrari's then, so were forced to collect wives instead.

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Originally posted by Wulfhawk:
Polygamy, as practiced historically, was expensive, and a sure way to piss off the other men of your community.

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Originally posted by Wulfhawk:
Polygamy, as practiced historically, was expensive,…

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…and a sure way to piss off the other men of your community. I think that polygamy was never encouraged, and except as a reward or charitable necessity…

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Originally posted by Wulfhawk:
Kayt, I'm unaware of any culture today that practices polygamy in the fashions you describe.

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Originally posted by Kaythryn:
Generally, polygamy isn’t being practiced as the rich sheiks do or have done. Women are not objects, but workers. A man who is married to many women may be considered richer than a man who is only married to one woman, but it is not solely because he “owns” more women. Most brides, and their families pay money to the groom, and his side of the family when they marry, instead of the other way around. And these wife’s will then work on a farm, or create products to sell, such as clothing, and support the family.

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Originally posted by Kaythryn:
In other cultures where the form of polygamy they practice is where a woman can have many husbands, the reason fits their lifestyle. In one culture different men are gone different times of the year for months at a time hunting and trading. In this culture the women each take a few husbands. In the end, it works out that each husband is home in roughly equal intervals, and sometimes more than one husband is home at a time. This system works out for many reason, one is because there are fewer women in this culture compared to men. Having more husbands means each woman has a larger income, and everyone is taken care of. Men always have someone to come home to, and the women always have some one at home.

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Originally posted by Wulfhawk:
If you're talkin India, or further east, then I'm in the dark.

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Originally posted by Kaythryn:
Sometimes when a man plans to marry a woman she will ask that he also marries her sister, that way when they move far away, back to his home, she can have her sister along with her.

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Originally posted by Wulfhawk:
And while I was exaggerating about 'pissed off', it's clear that, without some kind of monarchy/oligarchy to support it, institutional polygamy is doomed.

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Originally posted by Wulfhawk:
Polygamy IS practiced in the United States, both by religious 'fundamentalists', and private citizens. Do some websearchin, you'll find considerable about it. 8) The attraction of multiple sexual partners, increased income, and reduced overhead is...attractive. LOL

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