What is your opinion on plural marriage's and should this be allowed?

Very true, functionally this would never work, the mans sanity I do not think having multiple wife’s would work. This what I tell my wife when she says I want a girl friend on the side, “One women is all I can ever handle..”

So what you’re referring to is called “polyandry” where one woman has multiple husbands. The only place I’m familiar with that practices something close to this is in parts of Nepal / Tibet, where a woman will marry not just one brother, but all of them, from the family.

And yes, the excuse you gave (one bull, many cows) is the classic line for why it makes sense to practice polygamy.

Thanks for the update on the terms I was trying to keep the question more lamens terms, I did not want them to have to research the words to provide a answer.

As noted, since women are far more limited in their reproductive potential the fertility of a population is more limited by the number of women than men. Remember in Dr. Strangelove where when deciding who should be saved to repopulate the earth naturally as important leaders they chose themselves but decided on the ratio of 10 women to every man and so the men would be inspired to reproduce the women should be young, healthy, smart, and especially attractive.

Throughout history polygyny (multiple wives) has been far more common than polyandry (multiple husbands). I understand that prior to colonization the queen of Hawaii had multiple husbands. There are plenty of examples of polygyny in the Bible: Abraham, David, and Solomon all had many wives and I don’t believe anywhere in the Bible polygamy is condemned. Polygyny is allowed in Islam and until it became a political liability it was allowed in the Church of Later Day Saints.

Personally I don’t see why someone would want to be a multiple in a plural marriage. I can understand the appeal for a man to have multiple wives and for a woman to have multiple husbands but I don’t see the advantage to be one of many. I do think that anything between consenting adults should be legal so I oppose laws against polygamy on philosophical grounds but I don’t think it is a mutually beneficial arrangement.

If all the parties agree, why not. I see no reason it should not be allowed. It is against my moral values, but each to their own I would say. Our president for example has multiple wives (it is in his culture) and 21 children between the lot. I don’t like it, because for me it sets a bad example, but other people see it as a sign of power and prestige being able to support so many wives and also having so much children in the culture is an excellent sign because it shows fertility, which in the African cultures in my country are very important.

I’m very liberal on this and see it purely as a cultural issue. Marriage doesn’t “have” to be anything. It doesn’t have to be between only two people of any particular gender, it doesn’t have to last one’s entire life, and it doesn’t have to be entered into mainly because of love. All of these notions are very Western and modern, and we forget that marriage originated mostly out of economics, which in turn originated out of the need and desire to produce offspring. Any arrangement in which the parties are consenting and which serves their purpose is fine in my opinion, which includes one woman with multiple husbands.

I agree with you on this and also believe as long as you are and adult, then it should be legal to practices what you want as long as this does not inflect physical hardship or pain on others. I have never seen the movie Dr. Strangelove, but seeing it was made before I was born in 1964, I can understand why.

Dr. Strangelove is probably my favorite movie. I grew up during the cold war when a nuclear WWIII loomed over us so it probably resonates with me more than it might with you but I still think you would like it. I remember it being the first place I came across the idea of women being the limiting factor on reproduction.

The Bible says “be a husband of one wife”. Mormans say they believe the Bible, so I guess they cut that part out? The founder, joe smith, started the plural marriage, cause he wanted more women for himself.

See I am a bit younger, I grew up under regan.

I think it says this for a reason, I believe and this is just me, I could handle only one women in my life.

1980 was the first presidential election I voted in and Reagan was the first presidential candidate I voted for. I wasn’t always the bleeding heart liberal I am now.

LOL, well I don’t know that you are a bleeding heart liberal. I was first able to vote under Clinton’s Army, I did not vote at that time, but I was in the army.

Other people practice polyandry, too. There are African and aboriginal tribes in South America that practice it, too.

I have never even heard of plural marriages before. But as I think about this they shouldn’t because you can only really love one person. Yeah divorces happen but only because those people were only interested in the temporary love. One needs to be sure that they really love that person before they get married. Which is why I think they shouldn’t have chapels in Las Vegas. :D

Hey, if a guy wants to deal with 4 girls, whose pms synchronizes, then let him, he’ll probably kill himself anyway.