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Old 08-17-2005, 05:11 AM   #1
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Okay, here's one I was dying to ask on Cougarboard, but I know it wouldn't have lasted long.

Let's say polygamy had lasted to the present. And let's say you have two wives. Do the "bonds of marriage " exist just between you and each wife, or do they encompass all of you together? ops:

Maybe this sort of thing is one reason it's no longer with us.

Yes, my wife's away visiting family for a week, and sometimes it would be nice to have another one around.

p.s. I am so dead if my wife ever sees this.
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Old 08-17-2005, 05:19 AM   #2
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are you asking if wives are sealed to each other?

I don't know, but I wouldn't think so.
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I think he's asking if the 3 could share the same bed. But maybe I read it wrong.

I'll admit I've wondered how living arrangements worked back in those days. Were they all wealthy enough to maintain separate households?
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Old 08-17-2005, 05:38 AM   #4
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Kind of both. Yeah, the prurient part of me kind of wonders about the "threesome" aspect (i.e. would that be "unholy & impure" or would it be one of those "between you and your wives" kind of things), but I also do wonder what the relationship between the plural wives is. There are just some fascinating dynamics in the relationships between women and women and between men and women.

I think a conversation I had with my wife kind of encapsulates the dynamic (by the way, this is a virtually word-for-word conversation we had a few weeks ago):

Me: Sometimes I think that polygamy thing would be a good idea.
Wife: Yeah - then I could have someone to talk to, and you could have someone to have sex with! (she was only half-kidding)

I took an anthropology class at BYU, we studied a couple of polygamous cultures. I have never seen such a henpecked man than a man who has five wives telling him what to do. :?
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I have asked my wife about a million questions that started with "If polygamy came back....."

To the point that she has stopped answering them.
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