RE: Do you support the legalisation of polyagmy and polyandry
October 24, 2012 at 2:47 am
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2012 at 2:59 am by Doubting_Thomas.)
Morally I cannot see any objection to polygamy amongst concenting adults.
Every version ive read of seems to be sexist and exploitive though. How many places that do/have allowed it, allow one women to have multiple husbands?
And then there are possible psychological problems: the case of that lady in UK who was in some sort of hippy polygamous relationship which led to her having a breakdown a killing her child. Maybe isolated, but something we'd want to understand before legalizing it.
So despite the moral stance, I think it's likely to be problematic. It's one of the few things I'd keep banned if I ruled the world as I think if it were legal the laws would be abused and people exploited. Especially by sexist and religious nuts.
Every version ive read of seems to be sexist and exploitive though. How many places that do/have allowed it, allow one women to have multiple husbands?
And then there are possible psychological problems: the case of that lady in UK who was in some sort of hippy polygamous relationship which led to her having a breakdown a killing her child. Maybe isolated, but something we'd want to understand before legalizing it.
So despite the moral stance, I think it's likely to be problematic. It's one of the few things I'd keep banned if I ruled the world as I think if it were legal the laws would be abused and people exploited. Especially by sexist and religious nuts.
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