POLYGAMY AND POLYGAMIES: Eve

There are really two kinds of polygamy being discussed in this piece: the historically common kind, where one man can take many wives, and the (as far as I know) unprecedented kind where any number of people of either sex can combine in a kind of small-scale married communal life. These two kinds actually seem pretty distinct to me, and different arguments for and against would apply to each. A lot of the arguments against many-wives polygamy don't seem to have much purchase on this family's living arrangements, for example, nor do they apply at all well to the lives of the people I've known in "polyamorous" relationships. There are other arguments against polyamory-type polygamy; and enshrining polyamory in law would obviously legalize many-wives-type polygamy as well.
posted by Eve at 7:53 PM VOTE

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