Why is polygamy such a big deal? (POLL ADDED)

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
It's a big deal because NO MAN should have to go through the torture of having more than ONE wife. It's kind of like the seat belt law- in place for your own safety.

more then one wife is fine. but having more then one MOTHER IN LAW!?nooo



actually i think polygamy should be lega. if 2-3 consiting adults are ok with it then why not?

 

[rudder]

Other than the fact that the kids in these polygamous sects are brainwashed and a history of sexual abuse occurs. I guess thats why all those FLDS guys were crying when the cops busted up the temple... no more 12 year old girls for 50 year old perverts.

If you can separate these sexual abuse situations from polygamy then if 6 consenting adults want to all be married to each other... well whatever floats their boat.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: sdifox
If some dumb fuck wants to be nagged by multiple wives/husbands/partners + live through the hell of all out bickering and whining, be my guest.

Wife #1: Do you think Wife #2 is sexier than I am?

yes, now get back on that treadmill!


lol jk. i have no real opinion on this subject. i know id never have more than one wife, that was enough for me. 18 years and shes gone, took a bunch of my soul with her too.


i think most men wouldnt gravitate towards this lifestyle, and the ones that did would have to support each wife separately. ive read something a long time ago about that in some other country... the man has to supply the same stuff for each wife... house, kids, allowance or whatever. that could be expensive!

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Mo0o
I would say it has religious roots

yep, the more popular religions preech the 1 partner idea, our govt cant get the curches dick out of its ass...... you get the idea

:laugh:
Geez, that's got to be one crowded ass, what with all the various (varieties) of heads crammed in there.

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: sirjonk
Because women would gravitate towards the men with money and power and looks leaving millions of men with no outlet for sex, thus they become suicide bombers.

As soon as the Japanese get their sex androids working that problem will be solved.

And if they refuse to sell their sex androids to the world, WWIII will begin. Once the world has their sex androids, there will be no more wars, nor will there ever be any progress.
And why? Because no one ever watched the propaganda film, approved by The Space Pope.

Why would I waste time watching a propoganda film? All I need is enough money to buy next weeks supply of top ramen and a pink #12 nipple erecting actuator arm for my Scarlett J. v2.1 and I'm good to go.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: sdifox
If some dumb fuck wants to be nagged by multiple wives/husbands/partners + live through the hell of all out bickering and whining, be my guest.

Wife #1: Do you think Wife #2 is sexier than I am?

Of course not, both of you suck compared to wife #3. Why would the guy even bother to marry them? Keeping multiple gf is a lot cheaper/safer than multiple wives.

 

[BigToque]

My understanding is that human beings are biologically a monogamous species. The primary drive is to find a single partner and "fall in love" (whatever that means to an individual).

In my own experience, people who engage in activities with multiple partners do so because for whatever reason, they are unable to find their ideal mate.

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: BigToque
My understanding is that human beings are biologically a monogamous species. The primary drive is to find a single partner and "fall in love" (whatever that means to an individual).

In my own experience, people who engage in activities with multiple partners do so because for whatever reason, they are unable to find their ideal mate.

I guess most politicians just can't find their ideal mate. Poor bastards.

 

[ElFenix]

polygamy leads to a much larger underclass of disenchanted young men who aren't getting any and have basically no chance of getting any. and there is no more destructive element in society than disenchanted young men who aren't getting any.

 

[Viper GTS]

I have no problem whatsoever with adults doing whatever they want.

The problem is they have a habit of reproducing like the proverbial rabbits, & society has a problem with how they raise their kids.

I don't think a modern society can (or should) condone the things that go on within those communities. So what are our options?

1) Break up the community?
2) Raid them every six months and take all their kids?
3) Ignore them and let them marry off their pre and barely teen daughters?

BTW for those bashing all the men involved here they are just as much the victims here as the women. The women get the publicity but all the male children being brought up to know no different are getting just as fucked as the women. At what point does the kid turn into a pedophile if he's raised from birth to think that's normal?

I'm sure there are some genuine nutjobs/pedophiles/whatever but assuming all the guys crying at their temple are pedos is a bit of a stretch. IMO that was actually a pretty respectable response from them, they let us know they weren't happy with what we were doing but they didn't fight it. I can respect that even if I do think they're misguided.

Viper GTS

 

[Engraver]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
polygamy leads to a much larger underclass of disenchanted young men who aren't getting any and have basically no chance of getting any. and there is no more destructive element in society than disenchanted young men who aren't getting any.

It also leads to less diversity in the gene pool. Take your polygamous flipper babies and gtfo.

 

[eleison]

Originally posted by: Engraver

Originally posted by: ElFenix
polygamy leads to a much larger underclass of disenchanted young men who aren't getting any and have basically no chance of getting any. and there is no more destructive element in society than disenchanted young men who aren't getting any.

It also leads to less diversity in the gene pool. Take your polygamous flipper babies and gtfo.

Thats why god created brothels. The oldest profession in the world... People in the US are brainwashed from birth to put sex on a pedestal and to believe their way is the "right way".

 

[sutahz]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Just cap the number of kids that the government pays you to have at like 5 and let them do whatever they want I say.

To answer the original question, polygamy is bad due to how the western world views marriage. Just how the culture is.

To Ping, nope can't do that. Growing up a neighbor of ours had 11 kids. 1 mom, 1 dad. Or the gov't could limit all families to 5 kids.`

 

[LtPage1]

Because historically, it's always turned out to be an excuse for sexually depraved misogynists to force multiple 12 year olds to marry them, and then sexually abuse their children. I could care less about your personal religious habits, but when they're a flimsy front for slavery, pedophilia, and rape, I start to pass legislation banning your little eccentricities.

If these guys could get normal women to sleep with them, they wouldn't have to invent a religion to sanction polygamy.

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
I would say it has religious roots

Ya think?!?!?

What a stupid OP - Is AreaCode707 an alias for pontifex?

MotionMan

 

[imported_Imp]

This game up in my Anthropology course... It's done in some native societies, even accepted, but they STILL don't work out. You can factor in some patriarchy if you want.

 

[eleison]

Originally posted by: LtPage1
Because historically, it's always turned out to be an excuse for sexually depraved misogynists to force multiple 12 year olds to marry them, and then sexually abuse their children. I could care less about your personal religious habits, but when they're a flimsy front for slavery, pedophilia, and rape, I start to pass legislation banning your little eccentricities.

If these guys could get normal women to sleep with them, they wouldn't have to invent a religion to sanction polygamy.

Any evidence of this.. or is your bigot side showing Throughout history, I read a book, IIRC , by Richard Dawkins (an esteemed social scientist) that polygamy has been the rule, not the exception.

What we have now is legalized "serial" polygamy where rich men marry wives and divorce them while at the same time have mistresses. How is this any different?

IIRC, at least in most polygamist societies, there is a legal obligation that the "mistresses" would be taken care off even after they get old and the new models appear.. just a thought. Don't think too hard.. thinking "outside" the box for some people, can hurt

In addition, women in a polygamist society are better off. Instead of not being able to marry a rich man because another girl got to him first, she still can. Compare it to the case of "one man" and "one women" society. The women would have to find another man. Since most of the rich men are easily married off, she has to settle for the burger fliipping "bob" who bare makes $5 an hour.

 

[Vic]

Polygamy is okay as long as it is between consenting adults.

That wasn't the case with the FLDS church, where 12-14 year-old girls were being married off to 50 year-old men.

 

[Alistar7]

Originally posted by: Vic
Polygamy is okay as long as it is between consenting adults.

That wasn't the case with the FLDS church, where 12-14 year-old girls were being married off to 50 year-old men.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Engraver

Originally posted by: ElFenix
polygamy leads to a much larger underclass of disenchanted young men who aren't getting any and have basically no chance of getting any. and there is no more destructive element in society than disenchanted young men who aren't getting any.

It also leads to less diversity in the gene pool. Take your polygamous flipper babies and gtfo.

that doesnt even make sense. if 1 man has 10 kids with the same woman, that gene pool is stringent, and limited to just those two codes. if 1 man has 10 kids with 5 wives, two kids each, the pool in those 10 kids is diverse, having only one side common.

 

[PKPunk]

I wonder if this would be as controversial of an issue if it was one woman marrying multiple men.

 

[uli2000]

Personally, I could care less what two, three, four, or more consenting adults want to do to express their love. As far as Im concerned, if a man and 4 women, 2 dudes, 3 chicks and 4 dudes, ect, want to have their union recognized by the state, I feel they are entitiled to that. The biggest problem is the fact that underaged minors without the ability to choose are forced into it. And acording to people inside the FLDS relegion, this practice of taking underage girls as brides is a relativley new thing. It wasnt started untill Warren Jeffs' father, Rulon Jeffs, was the 'prophet' of their church, and not then untill after he had a stroke and Warren Jeffs was for all practical purposes leading their chuch. I live in eastern Nevada near the Utah border and we have a few small groups of polygamists living together. I dont know if they are related to the FLDS (there are several factions of fundementilist Mormons across the west, Canada, and Mexico), but in the few dealings I have had with them, they seemed nice.

 

[mooncancook]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
It's for your own protection.

QFT

 

[AreaCode7O7]

Originally posted by: MotionMan

Originally posted by: Mo0o
I would say it has religious roots

Ya think?!?!?

What a stupid OP - Is AreaCode707 an alias for pontifex?

MotionMan

Did it have religious roots in China way back in the day? Not a sarcastic question, just a genuinely ignorant one. It's one country I can think of where polygamy was a social norm and not a scandal in any way.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Just cap the number of kids that the government pays you to have at like 1 and let them do whatever they want I say.

Fixed that for ya...


There are 2 main problems with polygamy other than the social aspect of it.

1. All too often, the men who participate don't support the women and their children, leaving them to collect welfare...WE pay for them to play.

2. All too often, the childred from the different wifes end up interbreeding, and birth defects run rampant. For proof of the result...to to any mall in Utah.

No, that's NOT one of my usual anti-Mormon digs...there is a high percentage of birth defects in Utah, and it's from the high amount of inbreeding that took place over the years before polygamy was outlawed...and even though it has been outlawed, the gene pools still are pretty closely intertwined. There may be a few generations inbetween in some cases, but not always as far as should be.

 

[0roo0roo]

because many men sharing a woman doesn't work. evolutionary its a stupid situation, women can only bear one child at a time, and the men do not know whos father which is a bad situation. it is much better the other way around.
the problem is what to do with the excess men. if you can't kill or enslave them, you are in trouble..society will be in deep sh*t because of the imbalance.