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Posted: 4/15/2008 8:48:04 PM | | How do you feel about polygamy? Do you think it is a acceptable way of life for a man to have as many wives as he would like? Are you from a polygamist family tree? Do polygamy followers have a lot of sex ? | |
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Posted: 4/15/2008 9:14:08 PM | One nagging wife is enough....... | |
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Posted: 4/15/2008 9:19:44 PM | I think...most of us live in a free country...so your entitled to whatever you wish...personally I'm the jealous type so knowing my lady is cheating on me is bad enough, having to participate would drive me to drink for a month straight.  | |
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Posted: 4/15/2008 9:22:06 PM |
How do you feel about polygamy? Do you think it is a acceptable way of life for a man to have as many wives as he would like? Are you from a polygamist family tree? Do polygamy followers have a lot of sex ?
I don't like it and wouldn't be able to accept it unless I can have many husbands. While he out with his other wives, I would be with my other husbands. No polygamists in my family that I know of...there are rolling stones though... | |
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Posted: 4/15/2008 9:26:33 PM | Given a certain set of circumstances, i wouldn't mind either having more than one wife or my wife having more than one husband. Guess those circumstances revolve around love, honesty and trust between consenting adults.
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Posted: 4/15/2008 9:30:29 PM | | The original purpose of marriage was to benefit financially, ensure survival and to produce offspring. While I would never engage in polygamy, I see no reason for it to be illegal as long as everyone involved is a consenting adult. | |
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Posted: 4/15/2008 10:31:29 PM | | it's wrong and should be completely illegal. | |
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Posted: 4/15/2008 10:42:38 PM | Never managed to figure that one out.
The greatest woman in the world gets married. No-one but her husband can share her genes (at least for a generation). SHAME!!!
Then all the good guys and gals get taken until the last single woman in the world. And she has to share her genes with the least desirable man in the world SHAME!!!
But wait! doesn't divorce mean we can practise serial polygamy?
Now if we just stayed friends and lived in the same house, divorce wouldn't be so traumatic and it would be easy on the kids. | |
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Posted: 4/15/2008 11:02:05 PM | To each his own I say, as long as it is between consenting adults and not an adult and under age child, as seems to be the case in many countries and in the US.
What grown men and women do is their business, in their home, in their bedroom,
as long as it doesn't harm others or themselves.
However, with that said, I don't know if I myself could do it. | |
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Posted: 4/15/2008 11:28:08 PM | gypo..thats funny! LOL..but its true..one is enough | |
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Posted: 4/16/2008 1:41:04 AM | Violetskye,
First off, why would the fact that something grown men and women did in their home harmed themselves, but no one else, make it any less their own business? It's usually not illegal to do things that harm only yourself, nor should it be.
Also, everyone seems to be overlooking a very important point about polygamy. During the years when Utah and about a half dozen other western territories applied to the U.S. for statehood, most of the country took a very dim view of Mormonism. Reflecting this disapproval, Congress agreed to grant these territories statehood only on condition that they agree to outlaw polygamy "in perpetuity." It was treated pretty much like slavery (with some justification, I think.) And so, all these new states had to include that condition right in their constitutions. Where it still is today.
What this means is that Utah, Arizona, Idaho, and the others CAN NEVER make polygamy legal without seceding from the U.S.! And because the U.S. would never allow that, these states can never legalize polygamy. But what if some other state legalized it, and a polygamous group married there moved to Salt Lake City? Unless Utah had passed a law that specified otherwise, it would have to recognize the marriage for all legal purposes.
You may not know that there are polygamous communities scattered here and there in Utah, and the authorities pretty much wink at them. Which is damned shameful, considering that these places are known hellholes. The ones that *have* been broken up revealed sky-high rates of spousal abuse, child abuse--including sexual molestation--and substance abuse. Not very glamorous (let alone fair!) for the pretty 16-year-old girl who's been brought up to play her unquestioning role as breeding stock in one of these sorry arrangements--as likely as not servicing a lecherous, mean, 65-year-old drunk.
And no, I'm not a divorce lawyer! | |
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Posted: 4/16/2008 2:38:38 AM | Polygamy is better for women than it is for men. With all the rich guys hogging the best girls the rest of us would be stuck with the uglies or nothing at all.
What woman wouldn't choose being the third wife of JFK over the only wife of Bozo the clown? | |
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Posted: 4/16/2008 7:09:57 AM | MatchlessM, I do know what you've stated. It's why I wrote what I wrote.
I merely posted my opinion, just as you posted yours. | |
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Posted: 4/16/2008 7:27:52 AM | Scoundrel .....Some of us women (maybe even most of us) would rather be with one man who loved us and only us - as we loved them. I know I could never do it because I don't like to share. For me, its as simple as that.
Though to think that there'd be numerous women to share the household responsibilities, that in itself may make it worthwhile....
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Posted: 4/16/2008 8:31:51 AM | Polygamy is affront to everything I believe in, and should therefore not exist.
I am all for polyandry, however. | |
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Posted: 4/16/2008 8:44:08 AM | the bible speaks clearly on this matter, check Mathew chpt 6 vrs 24  | |
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Posted: 4/16/2008 8:45:11 AM | | I had my hands full enough with one at a time. | |
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Posted: 4/16/2008 8:48:32 AM | The divorce and remarriage cycle here in the US is serial monogamy, cause you are only married to one person at a time, and as far as residing in the same household after a divorce, How does that benefit the kids? Sure in some situations, but not in all as this could be very confusing for the children and cause them resentment towards a step parent.
As far as polygamy being legal, I am all for it as long as young girls, under 18, are not forced to be in a polygamist relationship, which is usually what happens. If there was a way to ensure that the wives were not brainwashed and were told open mindedly about other cultures and monogamy, then to each their own. The problem with most religions though is that they teach their children that only their way is right, and do not offer any unbiased information about other religions.
And while were at it, I want homosexual marriage to be legal to. | |
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Posted: 4/16/2008 8:50:32 AM | re: message 15
Well here's to a gal who's not afraid to say how she likes her little red wagon pulled.
Not fair! | |
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Posted: 4/16/2008 8:51:35 AM |
And while were at it, I want homosexual marriage to be legal to.
I didn't read the article but saw the headline where those that were allowed to be married during that period of a few years ago now can't get divorced. Talk about not being able to buy a break! | |
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Posted: 4/16/2008 9:00:36 AM |
Polygamy is better for women than it is for men. With all the rich guys hogging the best girls the rest of us would be stuck with the uglies or nothing at all.
What woman wouldn't choose being the third wife of JFK over the only wife of Bozo the clown?
Simple application of supply and demand, really. As men can have more wives, the demand for them increases. This bids up the price of wives (whether in terms of what characteristics guys must bring to the table, or in terms of dower).
Traditionally the people who have objected to polygamy are men, and men from neighboring states where polygamy is common. | |
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Posted: 4/16/2008 9:08:36 AM | | Personally, I believe marraige, as recognised by the government, is unecessary anyway. I would like unions to be regulated by contract law. As long as two or more adults are entering into this contract, it's nobody's business. Leave the "marraige" aspect, with it's limitations, to religious or spiritual communities. So, I think that if several adults want to enter into a contract of union between them, they should be allowed. | |
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Posted: 4/16/2008 9:14:44 AM | polygamy, hmmm.........................the idea of having 2,3 or however many wives you were allowed to have and having sex with them sounds pretty apealling, but my god.........can you imagine the b*tching, whining, jealousy and all the drama you would have to deal with every day. One bitch is bad enough. Most definitley not for me.
King Solomon had 700 wives and they called him the wisest man that ever lived.............HUH?????? The man had 700 wives!!!!!! how the f*ck is that wise??????
Then on top of that, he had 300 mistresses!!!! DAMN, he was a busy man! | |
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Posted: 4/16/2008 9:20:42 AM | I've been in a polygamous relationship and thought it worked well. However, there were a lot of problems because of trust and mutual respect. I think it would work with people who do absolutely trust and respect one another. But you do have to have a relationship with everyone in the unit, not just one person, otherwise it doesn't work. Children are a mutual responsibility and you have to be willing to put your family first and not yourself, which is hard for a lot of people to understand in this age. I would be willing to be polygamous if I ever decided to marry. I prefer the commune notion of living together and raising children as a tribal unit, not just as secular parents. But I'm mildly hippie and have too many ideas in my head.
I don't think adult polygamy is wrong. I think communes that have 'breeding stock', repressed teenagers, and abused youth are wrong and should be ended. Cult-like behaviour is really not okay. But for adults to research polygamy, try it, and decide it works for them, having a third or forth person around can really help out financially, emotionally, and with the kids. It's one more person to share the responsibilities of life with and I find it works well. | |
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Posted: 4/16/2008 10:19:43 AM |
I don't like it and wouldn't be able to accept it unless I can have many husbands. While he out with his other wives, I would be with my other husbands. No polygamists in my family that I know of...there are rolling stones though...
This would be more descriptive of polyamory, a growing trend.
Best.
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