Why is polygamy illegal?

Question

Imagine all the fun you can have with two wives. ^_^

You can seriously love one, and the other chick can hang around for the daily, mind-blowing threesome!

Provided the guy was 6'0, tight abs, hard biceps, etc...the works.

obviously i'm just going love ONE wife, how the heck can you love both wives??

As I said, the other one's there for the fun.

Answer 1

Being Polyamorous isint illegal, you just wont have the benefits of a marriage.

I think its illegal because divorces would be too messy...and complicated...lol

Answer 2

You miss the whole point of polygamy, which is not threesomes. Polygamy the way it is practiced is about religion, not sex (although some kooks use it as such). It is practiced by those who believe the Bible requires a man to have more than one wife, which if you've read it carefully the Old Testament has over 20 passages in support of plural marriage and only 8 in opposition to it.

Then there is polyamory, "the desire, practice, or acceptance of having more than one loving, intimate relationship at a time with the full knowledge and consent of everyone involved. Polyamorous perspectives differ from monogamous perspectives, in that they respect a partner's wish to have second or further meaningful relationships and to accommodate these alongside their existing relationships."

Polyamory can be any combination of MFF, FMF, MFMF, etc.

The concept of loving more than one person isn't that weird at all. Many people fall in love, get married, have a fantastic marriage and sometime during that marriage also develop feelings for someone else (a friend, a coworker, a neighbor, etc.). Whether or not they act on them in another thing. I'm not talking about those with crappy marriages that are cheating, I'm talking about those with good marriages that discover that love is not a finite feeling and that they can love someone else and it in no way diminishes the love they feel for their spouse.

But this is a hard concept for some to wrap their brain around. Some feel that love is singular, and to love one person you have to quit loving another. Yet these same people love their spouse AND their kids AND their parents, etc. It's like loving your kids. Every kid is different but equal. You love them all the same, though you may love certain things and traits about each one them that the other doesn't possess. You love them equally but different. Polyamory works the same way, just with more than one loving, intimate relationship.

Now why is polygamy illegal? In around 1,000 AC the Pope at the time realized that the many wives and children of the cardinals and bishops was bankrupting the Church. So he made a new Church law that all clergy were to be celibate and all followers of Christianity were to have just one wife. Of course, this has been lifted from time to time during Christian history when after terrible wars the number of women far outweighed the number of men, so men were allowed for 10 year period to take more than one wife so that the widows and children of fallen soldiers would be cared for.

Today, the concept has been twisted and turned by those that make the laws. But these same people have affairs, or a wife and a mistress.

Also, 2/3's of the world's population lives in countries where plural marriage is not only legal, it's socially acceptable. The only reason more don't practice plural marriage is financial. It costs too much for the average family in these countries to have more than one wife and more kids. However, the wealthy do practice plural marriage to this day.

Answer 3

Vegas, I kind of like your answer, however, dictionary.com defines polygamy as follows:

the practice or condition of having more than one spouse, esp. wife, at one time

In order to be a wife, one must be married, marriage is a contract. You can enter into as many contracts as you want, so long as these contracts do not inhibit your fulfillment of any of the others (Contract law 101).

In a marriage contract, you are bound to that relationship serving only eachother, obeying only eachother, and loving only eachother.

It is impossible to then get a second spouce without breaking that contract.

Mind you, if the deffinition of marriage itself were changed, it could allow for polygamy, but we all know where attempting to change that deffinition leads....

Answer 4

laws, laws, laws, government doesn't want to deal with anymore crap. i think it's entirely possible to be in love with two people but not very likely. but think about the downside too. you'll have to remember twice as many special days and information about the other wife. can you imagine how horrible the arguments would be. you would never, ever win. and then adding kids probably wouldn't be as much fun either; lugging 8 kids around. plus, women are notoriously jealous being. a lot of trouble just to have more kicks in the sack.

Answer 5

it cant be the influence of the bible . some of those godly guys had lots of wives , and very young ones too . I suppose if the world doesnt blow up in the next couple of weeks , there might eventually be a social movement to legally recognize group grope relationships as real marraiges .

Answer 6

Because as you will know, we always force the ideology of one religion on to the rest of the country. I personally don't think I could love two people at once, or that I would want to share my partner with someone else, but if others out there can, then it's not harming me to let them go for it.

Answer 7

To paraphrase Mark Twain: it's in I Samuel "No man shall serve two masters."

Answer 8

It's not. Polygamous MARRIAGE is illegal.

It's illegal because marriage law can't handle group contracts.

Answer 9

If you don't LOVE both of them, I don't see how polygamy would be validated.

Answer 10

I'll go for it: one guy who can cook, one who's good at landscaping, one who can build/fix things, 2 good bread-winners, and one or two for.........you know.