Re:It's Cold Cash, Not Cold Feet, Motivating Runaway Brides ...
by tokenadult on Friday June 05, 2009 @10:01AM
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Look what happens in a culture where the wealthy/powerful are allowed 4 wives, on top of there already being a shortage of females.
What specifically does happen? In the culture I live in, there is aspirational lifelong monogamy as an ideal, and practical serial monogamy as a commonplace lifestyle, but I don't know what happens in a society with a highly skewed ratio of males to females. Especially, I don't know what happens if some men can have four wives and others none at all.
What specifically does happen? In the culture I live in, there is aspirational lifelong monogamy as an ideal, and practical serial monogamy as a commonplace lifestyle, but I don't know what happens in a society with a highly skewed ratio of males to females. Especially, I don't know what happens if some men can have four wives and others none at all.