Re:Half a Million Kinksters Can't Be Wrong
by rayiner on Saturday October 07, 2023 @08:30PM
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Yeah, but polygamy specifically is one of the things that western society has tried to wipe out for pretty good reasons. It’s usually horrible for women and children.
> Some of us were tagging along on logistics runs and meeting the Minangkabau, the Bugis, the Fore, and many many other people in the 1960s
See my point about small populations. Indonesia has 278 million people, of which the Minangkabau comprise 8 million. What’s the gender norms of the dominant Javanese culture? Are they accepting of polyamory?
And white travelers like Gauguin really have little insight into foreign cultures. Sex tourism is much more a legacy of colonialism than monogamy.
Polygamy has been widespread throughout history, eg:
Diodorus SiculusIt's been widespread throughout the western christian church also - Popes weren't the only ones with multiple families.
> What grinds my gears about this is that it’s always some white American invoking the moral sanction of unspecified black and brown people.
What grinds my gears is the sheer number of idiots that assume the internet is made up of white American males.
Some of us were tagging along on logistics runs and meeting the Minangkabau, the Bugis, the Fore, and many many other people in the 1960s.
To the best of my recollection Paul Gauguin wasn't hanging out in Tahiti for the grinding monogamy.
Still, it's hard to bame people in a post missionary world for having culturally blinkered views formed by the pinhole of white saviour pamphlets.