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Originally Posted by sally
men and women are different.
a man would never, and should never (evolutionarily speaking even) be okay with sharing a wife..
women are more relaxed. yes, envy is a part of that sort of relationship. but in the end, the majority of the worlds societies have considered and practiced polygyny as a norm, and not the other way around.
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While I don't have a problem if all parties involved are consenting (in the case of children it's pretty hard to do however)
But I don't buy these pre-disposition arguments about how it's natural for a man to have many child-bearers. And to me it doesn't mean a whole lot whether most socieities have practiced polygamy or not - most have practiced slavery. It seems to me it's more of a situation in which one powerful element impresses on a less powerful element an outlook that's favourable to the former, presenting it as though it's 'normal' and 'natural' order of things... whereas it's really just a matter of the powerful taking full advantage of their position.
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anyway, you're basically saying that for a guy to defend his right that he can have more than one wife is as disgusting as a guy looking at a married woman lushut uplly........?
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No not at all. It leaves me with something of a sick feeling to see males persist in pressing the fact that it's their divine right. And insist on doing so even when the girls involved in the conversation are saying that they personally wouldn't be comfortable with it in their own relationships, at which point they're disparaged in a variety of ways.