Re:Half a Million Kinksters Can't Be Wrong
by orasis on Saturday October 07, 2023 @10:23AM
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Roman monogamy was perhaps largely administrative. When a man eventually became a citizen through his military service he was only allowed to confer that citizenship to one wife and bloodline.
Given how radical their “immigration” system already was it would have been untenable to allow citizenship for multiple wives.
Re:Half a Million Kinksters Can't Be Wrong
by thaumasiotes on Sunday October 08, 2023 @08:30AM
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But the monogamy predates the practice of granting citizenship for military service.
What? Monogamy was already mandatory in Western culture (meaning classical Greek and Roman culture) before there was any influence from Judaism. And Jewish scripture is explicitly polygamous.
Monogamy in Christianity is obviously the result of the influence of Western culture on Christianity and not the other way around. For Judaism that is not so obvious, since it, unlike Christianity, at least predates Classical Roman culture.
Meanwhile, in the third Abrahamic faith, Islam, monogamy is not even an element of the faith today.