I wonder if they're really successful , it could be if a girl or boy was only exposed to one culture and made to believed it was the only way to live that would be brainwashing and that would be controlling a young person mind which it very easy to.
Look at what happen at Jones Town. Mr. Jones was able to control people so good he had 100's of people drink poison kool aid . I feel the women are being controlled more than they realize it. Just like that group I when and the guy was able to get complete strangers to rub asses together! There a lot lonely people out there and people like Mr. Jones and Mr. Ass Rubber know how to find them. I meet a woman was in 'married into polygamy and she said had to give all her money to her 'husband' before marrying him and the woman had no control over her own life. She was able escape on during a field trip her husband took his 'wives' on.
We are being brainwashed to think that single marriages are okay...but the same society condone and even embrace open sexual pleasures found in clubs, pornography, and open causal sex...what gives?
Western people aren't the only ethnocentricts.
The culture that is practicing polygamy is ethnocentric about their practices. The circular reasoning is that from their long-term cultural practices, they perceive what they do is a norm, only because it is a long-term normal practice for them. Not because there is anything intrinsically right about what they're doing.
Just about any practice could be called "working" if that's common in a particular culture, using that reasoning. The Chinese one-baby only policy is "working" for them (at least, according to Joe Biden), human sacrifice "worked" for cultures in the past, and plantation slavery "worked" for a time in American history, following that reasoning.
All so-called norms that depend on imperfect people deciding what "works" without following the guidelines from a perfect, immutable source, are going to be problematic.
That's the answer to the original question.
A comprehensive survey of traditional societies in the world shows that 83.39% of them practice polygyny, 16.14% practice monogamy, and .47% practice polyandry.
So let's see:
83.39% involving one man having multiple wives versus 0.47% involving one woman having multiple husbands
83.39% versus 0.47%
Seems hardly balanced.
Up until recently, women didn't have much power in decision making processes and in what she could do. In modern times, we might get better results, though. There are areas in the world where there's no equality for women yet, so it's hard to say whether women who enter polygyny really did enter with a clear and informed conscience.
Just how prevalent is polygamy where the members also share each other rather than just one person or groups where there is more than one person of each sex? This is polyamory. Polyamory is so much simpler than polygamy, IMO. There's more flexibility and there's no one person as the center of a group. The groups don't set up specific rules regarding who's responsible for what and who can have sex with whom, and there's no traditional theme that asserts a person's role based on gender and stereotypes. Some people here have mentioned the nature of a polyamorous group, so that should be the topic over polygamy. Polyamory would also give women more power and equality.
We are being brainwashed to think that single marriages are okay...but the same society condone and even embrace open sexual pleasures found in clubs, pornography, and open causal sex...what gives?
Polyamory isn't marraige.
Then please explain why it is that polygamous marriages work in so many societies across the world where it is considered the norm. Just because it "can't work" according to Westernized way of thought does not mean that it can't work at all, or that it is inherently damaging.
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the comment about joesph smith being a "sex addict" is incredibly offensive. Just because someone believes differently from you does not mean you should insult their religous leaders.
utah? really? it started in palmyra, ny. its still there, but under radar. utah just happened to be the next largest location with mormons. it doesnt matter if it latter day saints or old faith like RLS etc.
In happened historically in the world, and the Bible recorded that. God never approved of polygamy.