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RE: Why is it illegal to have multiple spouses?
September 21, 2023 at 7:24 am
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Some of my lesbian friends would agree.
But what a delightful way to get into trouble.
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RE: Why is it illegal to have multiple spouses?
September 21, 2023 at 7:26 am
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.
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RE: Why is it illegal to have multiple spouses?
September 21, 2023 at 7:26 am
‘I lived with a man who had two wives. Why can’t a woman have two husbands?’ - Elizabeth Woodling-Rumson, Paint Your Wagon
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RE: Why is it illegal to have multiple spouses?
September 21, 2023 at 7:27 am
(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’?
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RE: Why is it illegal to have multiple spouses?
September 21, 2023 at 7:33 am
So why am I not permitted to have 1 wife and 5 husbands?
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RE: Why is it illegal to have multiple spouses?
September 21, 2023 at 7:51 am
(September 21, 2023 at 7:30 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: (September 21, 2023 at 7:27 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ‘patriotically’?
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patriarchal
Thanks. That makes more sense.
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RE: Why is it illegal to have multiple spouses?
September 21, 2023 at 7:55 am
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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.