Polyamory

[iagodelgado]

Why is polygamy wrong, if the parties involved enter into of their own free will? Are we really back to one man + one woman (note no gay or lesbo and let's have a fight about what makes up a woman in this scenario)?

If you want respect, why don't you give it?

[BeardedOne]

Bella needs to check out http://www.lovemore.com/

I'll check back later (When I'm more awake and lucid) with my own thoughts.

[BellaBellucci]

How do you feel about Polyandry, where a woman marries two or more husbands?

How is polyamory any different from polygamy? Except for the genders?

... because:



Patriarchy: http://womenshistory.about.com/od/fe...atriarchal.htm

I think that within the next 25 years we will see something akin to a "partnership" agreement among individuals spring up. By partnership I mean along the lines of how doctors, lawyers and other professionals structure their business relationships. When you get down to the nitty gritty marriage really is about property rights and transfer of wealth.

I think it depends on this:

I think it is a long time to ever see groups of multi-gendered people gain the type of legal status Bella suggests and there isn't big enough a group of folks yet to fight to change that IMHO.

~BB~

[robertlouis]

So it's nothing to do with men shagging parrots after all then?

[runningdownthatdream]

So it's nothing to do with men shagging parrots after all then?

don't jump to conclusions quite yet

[BellaBellucci]

~BB~

[robertlouis]

Men shagging dead parrots?

That's disgusting.

[MacShreach]

I think that within the next 25 years we will see something akin to a "partnership" agreement among individuals spring up. By partnership I mean along the lines of how doctors, lawyers and other professionals structure their business relationships. When you get down to the nitty gritty marriage really is about property rights and transfer of wealth.

25 years? Where? No don't answer that LOL...You realise that civil partnership arrangements between two individuals already exist in many countries?

[MacShreach]

How is polyamory any different from polygamy? Except for the genders?

A man with multiple wives is unacceptable (patriarchy as you say). How about a woman with multiple husbands (matriarchy?)

So I as a man can be legally married to two other men and two other women - all at the same time? The genders of the individuals involved doesn't makes the situation any different from polygamy.

Just for info, two of the most partriarchal sky-god cults sanction polygamy, Islam and Mormons. There may be more.

[Stavros]

Polygamy is not formally banned in Judaism, which presumably according to MacShreach is another 'sky-god' cult'; but then the fact that barely 2% of Muslim men actually practice polygamy is of secondary importance to his need to abuse of all religious thought and practice. King Mswati III of Swaziland has 14 wives, unhappily it seems, the first two of them were 'appointed' by the state.