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In reply to the discussion: People who compare same-sex marriage and polygamy need to fuck off [View all]Nevernose
(13,081 posts)It's allowed in Brazil, Switzerland, and Holland. It's a weird technical legalization, but it counts. It's illegal but ignored in many Asian countries, too, because of cultural traditions.
It's illegal but ignored in America, too: there hasn't been a polygamy trial since the forties or fifties.
My radically leftist wife literally wrote a book on the legal aspects of polygamy, so I've been hearing about it for years. I'm not such a big fan myself, because of the treatment of women and children (which often, but does not always, suck), but I'm a big fan of letting consenting adults do what they want as long as no one gets hurt. Women and children always seem to get the shit end of the deal regardless of how many people are in the relationship.