When men imagine what living in a polygynous society might be like, they imagine themselves married to several wives.What they don’t realize, however, is that, more than likely, they would be left without any wife in a polygynous society. Polygynous marriage in a polygynous society is always limited to a minority of men. If 50% of men have two wives each, then the other 50% cannot have any wives. If 25% of men have four wives each, then the other 75% cannot have any wives.

The exceptions to this rule are highly desirable women, who benefit from monogamous society, and highly desirable men, who benefit from polygynous society. A highly desirable woman can marry a highly desirable man under any circumstances, but under polygyny she’d have to share her desirable husband with other women, whereas under monogamy she can monopolize him.A highly desirable man can acquire multiple wives under polygyny, but must confine himself to only one wife(albeit a highly desirable one)under monogamy.

Being a squirrel has its advantages

Big pop for those tags!

POP for being highly desirable!

As a side note I think I read somewhere that a woman can also have more than one husband.

I posted my mom's first draft of her writings about why she became a polygamist, if anyone is curious:

http://thewisdomgoldenmean.blogspot.com/2008/04/perfect-obedience-dangers-of-blind.html

Thanks for sharing this,dmegivern.

dmegivern:

I read this with such a heavy heart. Lord knows there is all kinds of love in this world. Who am I to judge? But as I read through this sugar, I realized that most people cannot separate their religious beliefs from who they are, can they? Are we all so arrogant to think that because it is right for us it's right for everyone? Jealously, oh, how it is the so green eyed monster. If we could get over it, maybe, maybe, we could all be so much happier, and leave religion and "God's word" all outside of it. Strive to be true in your relationships. Morality is so subjective.

Hi Debb,it's good to see you again