Was watching Sister Wives. Just for fun,no judgement..could you live a polygamous life?

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I think for myself, after some years, and I had my children,hubby wants more wives,he needs to choose one who cleans, one who cooks..and one he goes to when he is in a foul mood…seriously though not sure I could live that lifestyle..would have to be a good team player…
 
I think it would suit a certain sort of woman....someone who doesn't think too much, doesn't have deep emotions, and is perfectly happy to share everything. In a harem, the women were just used for companionship and sex...there was no actual relationship with their husband.
Doesn't all this demonstrate the attitude which the majority of men have towards women....their sole purpose in life is to serve men!
 
Can you imagine..living with one man.. and several sister wives..?... Having to deal with several sets of PMT every month as well as your own, and maybe long after you've gone through the menopause..... and not being able to complain about the other sister wives to your husband, and not to mention having to 'love' you sister wives children as your own regardless of how loathsome they may be ..... *ugh*.. no thanks
 
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Here in Utah polygamy is practiced a bit more than most places in the west. In comes in a lot of different forms, from people who really believe its the right thing to do religiously, to criminal enterprises, to people who are more or less normal otherwise. We have it as a legacy of the old Mormon Church, they banned the practice over 100 years ago, and it will get you excommunicated today, but old traditions hang on. I know a guy who is a lawyer specializing in defending polygamous clients, he has some interesting stories to tell... It is illegal, but no effort is made to enforce the law unless they are really after people for something else.

It seems to me long past time to legalize it, though I know that would make for some complicated marriage issues, but people practice all kinds of relations, why not allow polygamy?

When I worked in Saudi I met a number of men who were polygamous, you don't get to meet the wives, but I heard a lot about it. Apparently the more wealthy men first marry a Saudi wife and she becomes the main wife that he keeps. The others are often non-Saudis, lots of Thai or Philopena women, along with a wide variety of others from Russians to Americans. They are less likely to keep these often divorcing and sending them home, or just trading to another Saudi man. Sometimes they keep the kids. Not a way of life I approved of, but it wasn't my country or culture.

For me, no one wife is enough...

As we say in Utah, I don't care how you bring em, just "bring um young" and often. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brigham_Young's_wives
 
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Alligatorob said:
Here in Utah polygamy is practiced a bit more than most places in the west. In comes in a lot of different forms, from people who really believe its the right thing to do religiously, to criminal enterprises, to people who are more or less normal otherwise. We have it as a legacy of the old Mormon Church, they banned the practice over 100 years ago, and it will get you excommunicated today, but old traditions hang on. I know a guy who is a lawyer specializing in defending polygamous clients, he has some interesting stories to tell... It is illegal, but no effort is made to enforce the law unless they are really after people for something else.

It seems to me long past time to legalize it, though I know that would make for some complicated marriage issues, but people practice all kinds of relations, why not allow polygamy?

When I worked in Saudi I met a number of men who were polygamous, you don't get to meet the wives, but I heard a lot about it. Apparently the more wealthy men first marry a Saudi wife and she becomes the main wife that he keeps. The others are often non-Saudis, lots of Thai or Philopena women, along with a wide variety of others from Russians to Americans. They are less likely to keep these often divorcing and sending them home, or just trading to another Saudi man. Sometimes they keep the kids. Not a way of life I approved of, but it wasn't my country or culture.

As to me, no one wife is enough...

As we say in Utah, I don't care how you bring em, just "bring um young" and often. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brigham_Young's_wives
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Interesting reading..you kind of were a turn off with that last statement…I don’t care how you bring um……..you are kidding right?
 
Ever wonder what it would be like if it were the women who took more than one husband. Role reversal.
Does it happen anywhere in this world.
How would that work.
Would these husbands earn the bread and wait on us hand and foot while we ladies have the children and just sit back and relax....hmm

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Mizmo said:
Ever wonder what it would be like if it were the women who took more than one husband. Role reversal.
Does it happen anywhere in this world.
How would that work.
Would these husbands earn the bread and wait on us hand and foot while we ladies have the children and just sit back and relax....hmm

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yes it does happen, and it's called polyandry....and altho' not quite as prevalent as polygamy, there's still quite a few women with several husbands in the western world..and I'm sure probably more in the Africas... where they marry brothers where there's a shortage of women
 
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I always think of dumb things. I've always, wondered about polygamy. If there's about an equal population of males, and females, and some males have a bunch of wives, that has to deplete the supply of eligible mates for a lot of males. Say 50 men & 50 women, and 10 guys have 4 wives, that leaves 40 guys to fight over 10 women. Somebody is getting screwed..........or not.
 
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Somewhere back in the 1800's on my mother's side is Abraham Hunsaker, he had 5 wives. I think our link was number 3 or 4 out of 5. We don't bring them up in polite conversation. My maternal G-Grandfather was a Hunsaker. Our genealogy gets a little muddled after that.
 
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Snow74 said:
Interesting reading..you kind of were a turn off with that last statement…I don’t care how you bring um……..you are kidding right?
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There’re sects around here that have very young wives for the old-goat leader. The law cases trying to prosecute are prolonged and not particularly successful. It’s religion. There was one against a young teen taken across the border to a leader in Utah.
 
Snow74 said:
Interesting reading..you kind of were a turn off with that last statement…I don’t care how you bring um……..you are kidding right?
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It is a joke, "bring um young" is a play on Brigham Young's name . Brigham was the second Prophet of the Mormon Church and had 56 wives, that we know of. I suppose the joke doesn't travel well outside of Utah.
 
Jules said:
There’re sects around here that have very young wives for the old-goat leader. The law cases trying to prosecute are prolonged and not particularly successful. It’s religion. There was one against a young teen taken across the border to a leader in Utah.
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Much appreciated when I learn from a post thanks for sharing
 
Alligatorob said:
It is a joke, "bring um young" is a play on Brigham Young's name . Brigham was the second Prophet of the Mormon Church and had 56 wives, that we know of. I suppose the joke doesn't travel well outside of Utah.
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Either that or I was being straight-laced
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I always think of dumb things. I've always, wondered about polygamy. If there's about an equal population of males, and females, and some males have a bunch of wives, that has to deplete the supply of eligible mates for a lot of males. Say 50 men & 50 women, and 10 guys have 4 wives, that leaves 40 guys to fight over 10 women. Somebody is getting screwed..........or not.
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You are right, long run it doesn't really work.

One of the lesser know evils of some of the polygamous sects around here is the abandonment or driving out of many of their teenage boys. It's how they deal with the problem.

There was a good documentary made about it, here is a trailer:
 
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