Polygamy. Anyone expeianced in this subject?
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http://www.polyamory.org/\nhttp://www.cat-and-dragon.com/stef/poly.html\nhttp://www.cat-and-dragon.com/stef/Poly/Labriola/nonmonog.html\nhttp://www.cat-and-dragon.com/stef/Poly/Labriola/open.html\nhttp://www.cat-and-dragon.com/stef/Poly/Labriola/jealousy.html\n\nOn Yahoo answers your not going to find many who support this lifestyle.  But really its nobodies business but your own.  Hope this helps in your research of this lifestyle.
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For me I could not watch my wife with another guy, I could however watch my wife with another woman.  If you watch porn it is a common thing but in rality most people accept the monogamy that is associated with marriage.
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first off, thats not polygamy. And unless everything is on the table its not polyamory. What you are doing is cheating unless you have permission from your wife. If you don't have her blessing? You're an idiot playing with dynomite
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An interesting question...with so many contentious answers.\n\nPolygamy is made into a moral issue by the multiple religious institutions around the world...and the laws against polygamy are rooted more in religious reasonings than ones based in economical or societal ones.  The laws could be changed....but it would take a super-majority of US citizens to do so, and it's highly unlikely that the religious right would ever allow such an event to take place.\n\nOne wife is more than enough for me personally...but I say if you're man (or woman) enough...who am I to say differently. \n\nJust my 2 cents worth.
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Muslim Americans and Mormons who have more than one wife are breaking the law.  It's called polygamy.  You are not being discriminated against.  You could have more than one wife, as well.  But you would be subject to arrest and conviction, just like them (if you were caught).
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I agree. very nasty. the Bible says one woman to each man, and vise versa. this is paraphased, of course.
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Polygamy?\nAs in "Child Bride of Short Creek"?\nhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082169/
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The intellectual value of the question itself aside, I believe polygamy should be allowed, but with equal rights for everyone, so that all combinations are possible. There is no real harm to it and if there are people who want it, why should it be illegal? \n\nNota Bene: No, I prefer not to have a polygamous relationship, nevertheless, for those who wish to do so, the option ought to be available.
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Just one thing?\n\nWell, aside from the basis of the Religion itself, the "vision" by Joseph Smith that started it all, it would definitley be the view on polygamy they held for so long, and then suddenly dropped.\n\nOh yea, the poster above me has another good one.
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you dont understand a thing about polygamy.
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Genetics are in no way even remotely related to polygamy. Societies in the past have been polygamous, and monogamous. Every society sets up it's own social rules, but there is no standard for humans. Don't try to come up with justifications, if people want more than one, they should get more than one, and visa versa.
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The last answer is completely true. Whatever religion you might happen to be, polygamy is a punishable crime in Turkey. To be accepted legally, all marriages must be performed by a civil servant (not an imam) and they will run a background check to make sure you are not married. Where it happens that people have more than one wife, only one (if any) are legally accepted as such and can claim benefits, etc. In any country in the world, you can live with several women 'as your wives'; there is nothing a government can do to stop that.\n\nI'm not an expert on the Ottoman Empire, but I believe that, as Muslims at the time were subject to a legal system based partly on Shariah, Muslims would have been able to take more than one wife. That's just a guess. But certainly forbidding polygamy was one of the first acts of the modern Turkish Republic.\n\nAnybody who tells you differently is just talking out their a......
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The Mormon man can marry as many women as he can, as long as he can provide for them and their children.  There are several forms of marriages or relations in the Mormon faith, and some of them are called concubines.  Some practice that rule, such as Smith.  Had several wives, but didn't live with them openly.  Brigham Young had more than 50 wives, 19 were connubial wives, and with all these women had 56 children.\n\nTo answer your questions.  Yes, but many of them don't have multiple wives.  and, Yes Mormons are polygamist.  Same with the Muslims, they are permitted to have four wives at a time, plus the concubine, plus the pleasure wives, but they too, most don't have more than one wife.
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When a woman has more than one husband it's called polyandry.\n\nI can't say if I approve of it- it's definitely not for me.  But, who am I to say it's not okay for other people?  As long as the people involved are adults and are concenting, I don't see anything wrong with it.  However, it's not a cultural norm, so I admit I'd probably make fun of them!  :-)\n\nThe Bible does NOT say it's wrong- in fact many of God's favorites (like King David) had many wives.
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In anthropology, polygamy is the practice of marriage to more than one partner at the same time. Polygamy comes mainly in two forms: Polyandry (one wife, several husbands) is rather rare and mostly covers relationships where several men share a wife; on the other hand there is the far more common polygyny (one husband, several wifes).\nIn everyday language polygamy is used when people are cactually talking about polygyny.
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I believe polygamy is illegal in all states, however it has been practiced in Utah and Nevada for many years
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Actually, it's a federal law in the US:\n\nBigamy: Crime of marrying during the continuance of a lawful marriage. Bigamy is not committed if a prior marriage has been terminated by a divorce or a decree of nullity of marriage. In the United States if a husband or wife is absent and unheard of for seven (or in some states five) years and not known to be alive, he or she is presumed dead, and remarriage by the other spouse is not bigamous. It is not necessarily a defense to a charge of bigamy that the offending party believed in good faith that he was divorced or that his previous marriage was not lawful.\n\nThe U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1878 that plurality of wives (polygamy), as originally permitted by the Mormon religion, violated criminal law and was not defensible as an exercise of religious liberty. The Latter-day Saints renounced polygamy in 1890, but the practice has persisted among some, although it has been rarely prosecuted.