the rate of polygamic women is lower than men's
thats why it is usually the men who have much more cheating tendencies.
Cheating by whose standards? I am poly and I have dated many other women aside from my wife. My wife knows of each and every one and even has veto power. My wife does not believe me to be cheating and I don't believe me to be cheating. So am I cheating?
You also need to get more in touch with the poly community as a whole. There are a lot more poly women out there than I think you suppose.
Of course polygamy should be legal , everybody know every 14 year old girl just dreams about having sex with a man older than her father.
Wow! Way to misconstrue the reality with the exception.
I would say the desire for incest is decreased by children living together from an early age that desensitizes sexual attraction. If this doesn't occur than sexual attraction for your siblings will be normal as it would between anyone else. Anyway, I would agree that it is an evolved process of the species to improve the survival of the species.
Granted, this is slightly off-topic, but it has been shown that the incest taboo develops from growing up with another individual. That is why siblings who were separated at birth can end up being attracted to each other and why non-blood related kids growing up together will not be sexually attracted to each other. A study done in India, showed this to be true where the bride child of an arranged marriage was sent to live with the groom child and his parents until they were old enough to be married. Many of the couples refused to consummate the marriage.
yes older men prefer younger ones but that is not love if he is married to more than one wife
a heart belongs to only one person .but l think l am being bigot again :lol:
Ignorant, but not necessarily bigoted. However, you are wrong in that a heart can only belong to one person. The poly community as a whole proves you wrong daily.
Yep. That accounts for just about all of our laws. Perfect examples are "sin" taxes placed on alcohol and tobacco, soon to be extended further for firearms onwership, sales and transfers. BTW, nobody is proposing bigamy, or forced polygamy; note that mutual consent is still required for a marriage contract.
It also accounts for the way unions work. If I am part of a union and I and several others like our contract the way it is but the rest of the union want a change, then the majority with change the contract on the minority.
Yes, I understand the term. It means "general agreement", not "unanimous agreement"
And how does the "freedom to enter a contract" work together when there isn't unanimous agreement? If I and another male are "married" to two females, each of us having 25% ownership in property, liabilities, etc, and I meet someone I want to enter into a contract with, but the others do not? Does my freedom of contract allow me to shift half of that (ie 12.5%) to this other person, thus altering the relationship with the pre-existing three (w/o their consent), or are we saying that there are limits to our freedom to contract (which is the basis of allowing polygymous marriages)?
I would have to say that it would depend upon how the contract between the initial 4 was set forth. If there was a clause that all current members must unanimously agree to allow another person in then you are only limited by that which you agreed to be limited by.
The advantage of polygamy is that it required a much more thought out agreement than traditional marriage. Traditional Marriage (TM) often occurs for the stupidest reasons. Do you know people come here (Vegas) get dunk and decide to get married at 2 AM? No contract, no agreement just tie the knot.
Polygamy requires a far more complex written agreement. So, your question is one of the issues that will have to be agreed upon by the original founders or subsequently, additions may or may not have a say depending on the effective Constitution of the marriage.
General agreement is effectively the same thing as unanimous agreement. Let's not let semantics to over-rule our discussion.
Freedom is not an unlimited term. That's why thousands of rulings are made every year about its definition.
For all that I am a supporter of poly marriages, I find this argument somewhat lacking. While yes, we in the poly community try to educate so that those entering into this lifestyle will create such contracts, what is there that would prevent a poly marriage from happening at 2 AM in Vegas the same way a mono marriage does?
Certainly, there will be many instances in which the issue I'm concerned about will not arise. However, I don't think you've got a full understanding of what I'm concerned about, which is probably due to my not being clear enough
Let's say I am one of eight people who are all married to each other. One of the eight meets someone and wants to marry them. The other 6 agree that this person is a swell person, and give their consent. I, on the other hand, have knowledge which makes me certain that this is not a good idea, but I can not prove it to the others (Maybe I saw this person do something that demonstrates a violent or psychopathic trait)
I can tell the others what I witnessed, but I cannot force them to withold consent. By being overruled by the other 7, I am now forced to allow a psychopathic and violent person to have access to, not only my home and personal possessions, but also to my children.
How would this be much different from an ex marrying the same person of concern which would still give him access to your children? Until you have proof, there isn't much you can do either way.
Polygamy is not as represented by the reality show 'Sister Wives' or 'Big Love.' It is an ugly, perverted culture based on fear and greed.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but we in the poly community rather detest the foul practices of those in that minority Mormon subset. We are a lot more prevalent that we publicly show, much as those who are within the BDSM community are larger than those who publicly "out" themselves. Polygamy as practiced by those particular Mormons are not represented by such shows, but the rest of us are rather decent folks who do not abide by child abuse, sexual or otherwise.