CDZ What should we do with polygamy?

[Esmeralda]

Why it is still illegal? if polygamy is a part of your religion? I'm not talking about compounds with prophets assigning wives to old men, I mean families that are just trying to follow their beliefs, no abuse. Ok I have a new question: If polygamy is illegal, meaning you cannot marry more than one person, then why do families living in the suburbs face arrests and criminal charges for practicing it even though legally the man is only married to 1 woman. Say a man is sleeping with his secretary and she get's pregnant and he has children from his wife and now his secretary, why does he not get arrested?
You must admit that all this legalization of homosexual marriages is to lead to allowing polygamy in the US.
Who cares?
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Polygamy is illegal because it is abusive to women. Period. It should stay illegal. All modern, forward thinking cultures forbid polygamy in the same way they forbid child abuse, bigamy, and other behaviors that subjugate and abuse others.

I believe polygamy may be one solution for women who may claim, they can't find any more nice guys.

I think such an idea is absolute nonsense. How does marrying a man with several other wives help anyone? If she wants to have children, she can use a sperm bank. Surely she gets little love and emotional support from a man who has several wives. The very idea of sharing your husband with others means shutting down your natural emotions to be a one to one partner with a loving spouse. It's a mentally and emotionally abusive situation.

 

[Esmeralda]

Why it is still illegal? if polygamy is a part of your religion? I'm not talking about compounds with prophets assigning wives to old men, I mean families that are just trying to follow their beliefs, no abuse. Ok I have a new question: If polygamy is illegal, meaning you cannot marry more than one person, then why do families living in the suburbs face arrests and criminal charges for practicing it even though legally the man is only married to 1 woman. Say a man is sleeping with his secretary and she get's pregnant and he has children from his wife and now his secretary, why does he not get arrested?
You must admit that all this legalization of homosexual marriages is to lead to allowing polygamy in the US.
Who cares?
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Polygamy is illegal because it is abusive to women. Period. It should stay illegal. All modern, forward thinking cultures forbid polygamy in the same way they forbid child abuse, bigamy, and other behaviors that subjugate and abuse others.

I believe polygamy may be one solution for women who may claim, they can't find any more nice guys.

I think such an idea is absolute nonsense. How does marrying a man with several other wives help anyone? If she wants to have children, she can use a sperm bank. Surely she gets little love and emotional support from a man who has several wives. The very idea of sharing your husband with others means shutting down your natural emotions which are to be a one to one partner with a loving spouse. It's a mentally and emotionally abusive situation.

And I don't believe a man who has several wives is a 'nice guy.' A man who wants more than one wife is a greedy man who manipulates women into thinking the polygamy set up is good for them. Not a nice man at all.

 

[Pedro de San Patricio]

Why it is still illegal? if polygamy is a part of your religion? I'm not talking about compounds with prophets assigning wives to old men, I mean families that are just trying to follow their beliefs, no abuse. Ok I have a new question: If polygamy is illegal, meaning you cannot marry more than one person, then why do families living in the suburbs face arrests and criminal charges for practicing it even though legally the man is only married to 1 woman. Say a man is sleeping with his secretary and she get's pregnant and he has children from his wife and now his secretary, why does he not get arrested?
You must admit that all this legalization of homosexual marriages is to lead to allowing polygamy in the US.
Who cares?
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Polygamy is illegal because it is abusive to women. Period. It should stay illegal. All modern, forward thinking cultures forbid polygamy in the same way they forbid child abuse, bigamy, and other behaviors that subjugate and abuse others.

Polygamy is a gender neutral term. It doesn't identify the genders of the spouses involved. Polygyny is what is pictured above. Polyandry would replace the man with a woman and the brides with grooms. An interesting historical fact is that Sumerian women were well within their rights to take multiple husbands until the liberal reformer Urukagina decreed that any woman found not to be monogamous was to have her teeth smashed out with bricks. Monogamy was basically forced on Mesopotamian womanhood on pain of torture.

 

[Esmeralda]

We are talking about modern day cultures. There are no modern day cultures where women have multiple husbands. Modern day situations where men have more than one wife exploit and abuse women.

What may have happened centuries ago is not pertinent here.

 

[Pedro de San Patricio]

I thought it might be interesting after your comment that it's always abusive and harmful to women. Modern cultures that practice polyandry include the Maasai, Sherpa, and Kanak.

 

[danielpalos]

Why it is still illegal? if polygamy is a part of your religion? I'm not talking about compounds with prophets assigning wives to old men, I mean families that are just trying to follow their beliefs, no abuse. Ok I have a new question: If polygamy is illegal, meaning you cannot marry more than one person, then why do families living in the suburbs face arrests and criminal charges for practicing it even though legally the man is only married to 1 woman. Say a man is sleeping with his secretary and she get's pregnant and he has children from his wife and now his secretary, why does he not get arrested?
You must admit that all this legalization of homosexual marriages is to lead to allowing polygamy in the US.
Who cares?
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Polygamy is illegal because it is abusive to women. Period. It should stay illegal. All modern, forward thinking cultures forbid polygamy in the same way they forbid child abuse, bigamy, and other behaviors that subjugate and abuse others.

I believe polygamy may be one solution for women who may claim, they can't find any more nice guys.

I think such an idea is absolute nonsense. How does marrying a man with several other wives help anyone? If she wants to have children, she can use a sperm bank. Surely she gets little love and emotional support from a man who has several wives. The very idea of sharing your husband with others means shutting down your natural emotions to be a one to one partner with a loving spouse. It's a mentally and emotionally abusive situation.

I don't believe it is any form of nonsense. Mostly nice guys are just that, regardless of any wifery being involved--especially if they can be easily manipulated into practicing ingenuity and the Art of the Husbandman, as a moral obligation simply for being male.

 

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We are talking about modern day cultures. There are no modern day cultures where women have multiple husbands. Modern day situations where men have more than one wife exploit and abuse women.
What may have happened centuries ago is not pertinent here.

Women usually don't want more than one man. Men want polygamy more often because of their nature.