(July 9, 2015 at 4:57 pm)Esquilax Wrote: ...
Safe sex is good, but again, this has more to do with reckless promiscuity than it does with poly stuff; a group of any size who are clean and fluid bonded has the same risk of STDs as any couple.
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The thing is, all it takes is one partner to cheat and you now have a risk of STDs. Right now, I only have to trust my wife, and she only has to trust me. But if there were a third person, we would each have two people to worry about cheating, and if there were a fourth person, we would all have three people to worry about cheating, etc.
The upshot is, one would have an increased risk of getting STDs if one had multiple spouses.
Just to be clear, I am not saying that this means that polygamy ought to be illegal, as it would be the same whether the group is married or not. I am just pointing out the fact that, in practice, one is taking a greater risk when there is a larger group of people with whom one is having sex.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
