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    Posted: April 16 2012 at 18:16
Originally posted by Alitare

Yeah, folks have threesomes and orgies and mass rapes and brutal BDSM and multiple-partner affairs and swingers' clubs and crazy fetishes, all within the strict confines of a monogamous society. And even if they didn't, 99.9% of all monogamous individuals would daydream about it.

When you look at it, we're really a 'monogamous in name' package deal. We get to have our cake and eat it, too (with a heap of cream on top).


Strangely, I don't daydream about being mass raped and brutally dominated.

Especially if it involves cakes. Dead
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521

Polygamy doesn't mean one man married to a boatload of women.

Then what is it called?


Edited by Dayvenkirq - April 16 2012 at 18:54
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Harem.
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Maybe cookies coming out of the oven???

C is for cookie, and it is good enough for me.

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Originally posted by Dayvenkirq

Originally posted by Equality 7-2521

Polygamy doesn't mean one man married to a boatload of women.

Then what is it called?


Polygyny
"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521

Originally posted by Dayvenkirq

Originally posted by Equality 7-2521

Polygamy doesn't mean one man married to a boatload of women.

Then what is it called?


Polygyny

Smells like fist.

Wait, I meant 'smells like fi-

Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can ride a bike down it. Who on earth would rob a patch of dirt?
He gave her his town house and his racing horses. Each meal she ate was a dozen courses. She had a million dollars worth of nickels and dimes. She sat around and counted them all a million times.
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Everybody has ignored my incredibly sharp point. We are discussing orifices now but this gets more interesting if the polygamous marriage is a gay one. Then we have a deficit of orifices and a surplus of penises which will then create quite some tension. This is the issue of the century. 

Really, let's just allow everything. 
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Ooh now here it comes.
 
MARCH FOR GAY POLYGAMY
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Monosynths are awesome.

http://www.sequencer.de/pix/moog/mini_moog.jpg

Polysynths are cheesy.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Korg_poly800.jpg
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Once again, the Man from Rijeka is the only sane man of the crew.
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Originally posted by JJLehto

 
Originally posted by CPicard

The main problem with polygamy is that men have only one penis.




Well, not a problem just increased difficulty.


Legitimate POV. Why stay on nightmare if you can make it on hell?  LOL
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Originally posted by Textbook

SD: I don't want to be a polygamist personally, I'm just saying that if other people want to live or raise kids in groups, why the hell not?
 
I'm late on this debate, but would you accept that it goes both ways?? a woman having three husbands??
 
probably not, uh?? TongueWink
 
 
Unfortunately, most examples of polygamy generally are not egalitarian on the partner's rights! Beit Mormons or muslims
 
However, I agree that the thing about lifelong monogamy is over-rated - even the most monogamous animals have sexual/mating relationship with other partners (this is a fairly recent find), and the "need" for monogamy comes from the religious stranglehold n "family values"
 
 
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^Again, this point about polygamous marriages being misogynistic has no bearing on the debate. You're pointing out a flaw in past execution of the idea, not a flaw in the idea itself. Historically, monogamous marriages involved misogyny and slavery of the woman.

I have no problem with a woman having 3 husbands or 100 or ten women being married to ten men. I would even go further in this debate. I would support something like a man being able to marry his dog (though it would be pretty meaningless), but I would find it rather strange and a little debase personally. I support homosexual marriage and I don't care what anybody chooses to do, but I find the act personally extremely unappealing. Not only do I support polygamous marriage, but I find it pretty naturally. Although I'm fully dedicated to a monogamous relationship myself, if I had never met my significant other I could see myself favoring a polygamous situation.
"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Really, society accepts all sorts of group relationships and associations of all kind. I'm not sure why accepting people living together and sharing responsibilities together as a group is any different.
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I think because the ingrained attitude associates polygamy with sexual decadence and female slavery. 
"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Of course. Because both things would be unthinkable in monogamous societies.

And at least one of those two is perfectly legitimate.
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Or maybe it's just that polygamy can make the subject of inheritance a bit more complicated... 
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Of course, because that's totally reasonable and all. That's why I say that parents should be limited to one child. It makes the inheritance much less complicated. 
"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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I will let you study the problems of inheritance in the countries where polygamy is legal. 
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Nice how things aren't allowed because it makes some legal procedures more complicated...
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