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28 Nov 2006, 1:10 am

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the hurt party put themselves into it in the first place.


Sometimes the wives are 13 when they get designated by the person they will marry. Is that an age of rational decision making?

Also, these women typically grow up in remote ultra-fanatic religious communities. Rejecting a polygamous marriage could leave them socially isolated, persona non grata, or worse.



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28 Nov 2006, 4:54 am

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nukleuz: What you're thinking of (and seeing) speficially is polygyny. One man, multiple wives, never the other way around. This is how some forms of Islam and some forms of Mormonism work, but it's not the only way. If anything it's downright exploitative and such abuses are even warned against in the koran.

There's an inverse of it, polyandry (one woman, multiple husbands), but that tends to happen a lot less because of the nature of society.

Again I restate my utter hatred of the "ownership" mentality because of everything you just mentioned. Of course it's prone to have such horrid faults when a gender is treated like property in a society.


I am Mormon and I know for a fact that there aren't any mormon sects.
people who practice polygamy are ex-communicated. and the ones
who are in a sect aren't even apart of our church in any form of
affiliation.


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28 Nov 2006, 5:01 am

dgd1788 wrote:
Metabird wrote:
nukleuz: What you're thinking of (and seeing) speficially is polygyny. One man, multiple wives, never the other way around. This is how some forms of Islam and some forms of Mormonism work, but it's not the only way. If anything it's downright exploitative and such abuses are even warned against in the koran.

There's an inverse of it, polyandry (one woman, multiple husbands), but that tends to happen a lot less because of the nature of society.

Again I restate my utter hatred of the "ownership" mentality because of everything you just mentioned. Of course it's prone to have such horrid faults when a gender is treated like property in a society.


I am Mormon and I know for a fact that there aren't any mormon sects.
people who practice polygamy are ex-communicated. and the ones
who are in a sect aren't even apart of our church in any form of
affiliation.


Yes, but there is a polygamous group who refers to themselves as the "Fundamentalist Mormons"...however, because that was causing confusion (Since they are *not* affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints) the news anchors around here simply began referring to them as a "Polygamous sect". Everyone knew what they meant.

(PS-I'm Mormon too :) )


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28 Nov 2006, 5:17 am

Well I don't know about marrige, but If I dated a bisexual, you can't actually starve the guy off male attention, i'd just encourage him to use a condom.