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Polygamy
“Two’s Company; three’s a Marriage.” It’s not a man and a woman anymore; it’s a man and five wives. Five wives…most men can only dream of bedding a different woman each night. There is no need to dream anymore, it’s the polygamist way. But what happens when a 52-year-old man marries a fifteen year old child…is that legal? No. Plural marriage is currently illegal, but in Steve Chapman’s article he says: that plural marriage will always be a “minority taste” and that legalizing polygamy would “bring polygamists out from the underground.” It may bring them out from this so called underground society, but it could also cause a mass epidemic of chaos.
Who would be crazy enough to want to share a house with over twenty wives, with an endless siege of PMS? Polygamy is of course, more attractive to the male eye. Legalize polygamy, for what? So that the female youth can be married off at the prime of their childhood? No! The 1800’s are over! We went through the revolution, civil rights, and women’s rights. Why take a giant leap back?
The bible clearly states that a marriage is between one man, and one woman. Not one man and multiple wives. Most men can’t even handle being married to one woman. The polygamist women are bread like dogs. They have to pop out children consecutively each nine months, simultaneously ending up with multiple children; most polygamist families adding up to over twenty children. An American household averages 2 children per family. How can anyone pay the grossly amount of college for twenty children? Hugh Heffner could.
Hugh Heffner the modern day polygamist. Teenage boys idolize Heffner with his player ways, becoming more and more socially acceptable; however, Heffner doesn’t have multiple wives, just girlfriends. It’s his last attempt to live his dream before he dies, so why idolize his ways. It is merely a sad story, the fact that he needs multiple women to keep him happy—just like polygamists.
Gay marriage is not legalized in America, yet many homosexuals still are “together” just not recognized as legally wed. Polygamy is illegal and yet still practiced, law officials simply sweep it under the rug ignoring many of the rapes, underage marriage, and abuse that goes on in the compounds. Law officials need to save these women, and not spread the mass disease of polygamy.
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The Bible isn't a valid reason to prevent polygamous marriages because not everyone is Christian and not everyone follows the Bible. While you might personally believe that God exists and that is completely valid, it is also valid to believe that God doesn't exist, and as there is no hard evidence either way, it is wrong to govern a large group of people under a religious standard that not everyone in that group believes in. The beauty of something like a law legalizing polygamous marriage is that it doesn't hurt anyone, it only helps. For people who believe that polygamy is a sin, they are free to choose to be in monogamous relationships, and for the people who embrace polygamy, they are free to be in romantic relationships that are fulfilling for them whether it involves one other person or more. Also again, I hate to keep bringing this up but *why* does this article act as if the only polygamous relationships that exist are between a man and multiple women? That is *not* the case.
Why do you villainize PMS? With the sentence " endless siege of PMS" you make it sound like this awful thing that no one would want to have partners with it. And sure, it's not fun, but it doesn't make women suddenly terrible to be around. A huge chunk of the world population aren't turned into emotional messes every time another month comes around. And again, why always from the man's perspective? This article acts like having partners with PMS is something so awful that it completely negates all the wonderful reasons to be with someone, or someones.
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Finally, to your last couple paragraphs: "rap.es, underage marriage, and abu.se" are risks in any relationship, polygamous or monogamous, and even in platonic relationships. Polygamy is not the cause of those things.
People who are polygamous no more need multiple significant others to be happy than people who are monogamous need one significant other to be happy. Romantic relationships enrich life, but they aren't necessary to happiness, in both monogamy and polygamy. And it isn't some disease. Polygamy is simply another way to have romantic relationships.