Never mind the laws of the land.
Just think of all the advantages.
After all the females out number the male greatly.
what do you think?
I think I’ll check with the 2000 US Census.
http://factfinder.census.gov/bf/_lang=en_vt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_DP1_geo_id=01000US.html
SEX AND AGE
Male 138,053,563 49.1
Female 143,368,343 50.9
So we’ve got five million more women than men, but some of those are clearly not of marryin’ age. Let’s go with 18 and above. (Yeah, some states have a lower age of consent, but bear with me here. I’m working this out on the back of a napkin.)
18 years and over 209,128,094 74.3
Male
100,994,367 35.9
Female
108,133,727 38.4
Even better. There’s an seven million women for all of the men over 18.
What advantages do you see? Right now, I’m stuck at a major problem of an equal distribution of these seven million surplus women. Some options:[ul][li]First come, first serve, to a pre-determined maximum number of wives.[]A national lottery, in which seven million men receive winning numbers, and then select their extra wife in numerical order[]Relate it to taxes somehow - volunteer to move up into a higher tax bracket, be given a dispensation to take on an extra wife[/ul]Oh, there are a lot of options. But there are some other factors that I haven’t even considered - female input, for one. Women still have the franchise (unless that’s step one of your plan) and may demand participation in any scheme - and bigamy works both ways, too, so a woman would be justified in taking multiple husbands.[/li]
In which case the original justification (the 50.9% to 49.1% outnumbering) is thrown to shit.
What do you think, Iyyob? Any ideas how we can work through this?
Now lno there’s nothing unmarriageable about a sprightly female octagenarian. Just look at Joan Collins or Elizabeth Taylor!
I think I would rather become a nun or a lesbian than have to share a husband.
Iyyob,
Are you planning on participating in any of these threads you’ve started?
But I definitely think bigamy should be legal. And I’m talking multiple husband as well as multiple wife bigamy. (Or a husband and a wife, or whatever turns your crank.)
I think, frankly, the actual incidence of multiple marriage would be rare. From what I’ve read about polyamory, if you marry N people, then your relationship problems generally multiply themselves by N times. I’ve got enough trouble with just one girlfriend!
-Ben
Yeah, could you imagine the nagging multiplied by N? Or the ol’ “You ain’t gettin’ any tonight”? Dear Lord, who would even subject themselves to such a thing.
Whatever floats your boat, I say.
In fact, my personal opinion of the matter is that marriage should be eliminated as a legal institution altogether, and relegated purely to the spiritual domain. The legal advantages that come from marriage (joint property and so forth) can all be accomplished via plain ol’ contract law if you want, anyway. If you want multiple spouses, set up multiple contracts. No big deal.
I had to look at this twice, to make sure it wasn’t a haiku.
And there you have it, folks—my 100th post.
As long as all involved consent, I see nothing wrong with it.
Heck with a third income, we could afford a much better place. I’d be willing to share for that.
:rolleyes:
Gotta love the fact that the OP thinks of multiple marriages as one husband-two wives. Why not the other way around?
Well, I’m certainly against it for me, but I couldn’t give a fiddly-fuck what other people do as long as all parties involved know they’re in a multiple marriage and consent.
Oh, and friedo, the legal advantages can be arranged by contract law, but it’s much, much more expensive. A lesbian friend of ours recently spent several hundred bucks to get the same legal rights and advantages DrJ and I got with a $27 marriage license.
Well marriage could be good for your health.
Studies have shown married men live longer than single men, but married men are a lot more willing to die.
So you may live twice as long, but wish you were dead.
The OP seems to think that women far outnumber men, thus the Two-Women-One-Man marriage. |no has graciously pointed out the flaw in this reasoning with the US as a basis, but I would like to add the numbers from a global perpespctive. All numbers still taken from the CIA World Factbook so if it is inaccurate then you can blame those bastards who have finally wised up and figured out that tinfoil hats actually WORK.
Hmm, there’s actually MORE guys than women until you hit the 65+ mark. So if there are going to be poly relationships, it would make sense, numerically speaking, to have MMF until you hit 65+ and then a fair number of people(the guys who didn’t die off by then) could switch to FFM.
Enjoy,
Steven
Elizabeth Taylor?
Spritely?
Joan is spritely because she never gave it a rest.
Liz just got old.