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In reply to the discussion: People who compare same-sex marriage and polygamy need to fuck off [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Don't read further if you have better things to do.
So, my husband and I were students in France, and we ate in the student lunch rooms. One day, over lunch, we spoke to a student from, I think Togoland.
He explained to us that his father had five wives. We asked him how that was possible, how did it work? He said that each of the wives had her own house and her own business, and his father visited them in succession, a night with the first, then with the second, etc., spending one night of the cycle with each. It seemed very bizarre to me. But it is now clear to me that this multi-married man was trying to deal with jealousy among his wives in a fair way. Must have been exhausting having that many wives each I suppose with at least one child.
Anyway, I think that polygamy or polyandry would not be good for America. A lot of men, as the OP states, would be very lonely, and a lot of women would be very unhappy. I was not impressed by this student's story about his father's and his mother's lives.