Whats a concubine???

Answer 1

i think it is a woman kept purely for sexual purposes, in addition to one's wife

Answer 2

A concubine is another wife or lover. This is not cheating. When you hear people talk of concubines, it's often in a society that condones a man having more than one mate. A concubine is often the younger, lessor wife: there just for sex. Also, I've never heard of anyone poor having concubines, or women. I guess it's reserved for rich men

Answer 3

Concubinage refers to the state of a woman or youth in an ongoing, quasi-matrimonial relationship with a man of higher social status. Typically, the man has an official wife in addition to one or more concubines. Concubines have limited rights of support as against the man, and their offspring are publicly acknowledged as the man's children, albeit of lower status than children born by the official wife or wives.

In modern usage, the term concubine often denotes the status of a quasi-wife who is not legally married to a man with whom she lives. The man (but not the woman) may or may not be in an ongoing legal marriage with another person. For example, in a California court case involving inheritance, Rosales v. Battle, a Mexican court had decided that the plaintiff had been the concubine of the deceased, on the grounds that they "had maintained a relationship publicly comparable to a marriage for about four or five years and had always behaved as though they were married, even though they had not contracted legal matrimony."

Answer 4

A concubine, is like a wife without the legality of marriage. In marriages of convenience, or arranged marriages, they were quite popular and often accepted. A man (usually) rich would have his respectable, perhaps boring wife) and his concubine for sex. They were often treated very well and with respect. The woman he would have married if he had the choice (sort of thing)

Answer 5

Apart from each of the valid sociological and sexual references, there is the additional element of 'personal survival / security' in a world often full of hostility, both environmentally and politically.

Being a concubine probably marked you as 'Important' and likely supplied you with three square meals a day ~ plus the protection of your patron / master / lover or whatever.

Although something of what could be a 'sexual slave,' those bonus points were likely of considerable value ~ though obviously, subjectively so.


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Answer 6

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Answer 7

Although, there are still concubines in this world, they were a lot more common in the past. This is a woman who lives in a man's household with his wife that he is allowed to have sex with. These women were not as high status as his wives nor as low status as his slaves. Any children that she born him would be recognized as his children, but would not have as many rights as the children his wife born him. In some countries, especially middle east countries, the father could raise the children up to the same status as his wife's children.

Answer 8

A concubine is a woman who lives with a man without being married to him.

Answer 9

The term concubine generally signifies ongoing, quasi-matrimonial relationships where the woman is of lower social status than the man or the official wife or wives. Some historical Asian and European rulers maintained concubines as well as wives.

Historically, concubinage was frequently voluntary, as it provided a measure of economic security for the woman involved. Involuntary, or servile, concubinage involves sexual slavery of one member of the relationship; typically the woman.

Answer 10

A concubine was someone who lived in a harem, sort of like a mistress for someone of importance

Answer 11

Main Entry: con·cu·bine
Pronunciation: 'kä[ng]-kyu-"bIn, 'kän-, -kyü-
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin concubina, from com- + cubare to lie
: a woman with whom a man cohabits without being married: as a : one having a recognized social status in a household below that of a wife b : MISTRESS 4a