Some of my lesbian friends would agree.

But what a delightful way to get into trouble.

it’s not the only possible answer, but it is easily the most practicable answer in a patriotically society to the question of how not to have a pool of young men without wives making trouble for those who do.

‘I lived with a man who had two wives. Why can’t a woman have two husbands?’ - Elizabeth Woodling-Rumson, Paint Your Wagon

Boru

(September 21, 2023 at 7:26 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: it’s not the only possible answer,  but it is easily the most practicable answer in a patriotically society to the question of how not to have a pool of young men without wives making trouble for those who do.

‘patriotically’?

Boru

I had part interest in a beach house in Puerto Rico, near Loquillo Beach. Five sailors, so you can figure.

(September 21, 2023 at 7:27 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(September 21, 2023 at 7:26 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: it’s not the only possible answer,  but it is easily the most practicable answer in a patriotically society to the question of how not to have a pool of young men without wives making trouble for those who do.

‘patriotically’?

Boru

patriarchal

So why am I not permitted to have 1 wife and 5 husbands?

(September 21, 2023 at 7:30 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:

(September 21, 2023 at 7:27 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ‘patriotically’?

Boru

patriarchal

Thanks. That makes more sense.

Boru

(September 21, 2023 at 7:33 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: So why am I not permitted to have 1 wife and 5 husbands?

for patriarchal societies,  it might be much less serious threat to social order for a man to have 2 husbands, but it would be for a woman to have 2 husbands.

the prohibition against polygamous homosexual marriage arose out of much later porting over of the form heterosexual marriage strictures to homosexual marriages

So why am I not permitted 1 wife and 5 husbands in any nation?

Social order seems an unlikely motivation against its prohibition given the many things we allow that disturb the social order.

I can cohabit with a thousand men and women and spend all day making pornography and selling alcohol and printing subversive political tracts and blaspheming all religions and all kinds of other order-disturbing stuff.

But I can't marry two people of any gender.

Doesn't add up. Smells like religious influence.