[Age of Reason]

Although the majority of societies have accepted polygamy, that does not mean having an unlimited number of wives is a good thing.

I suspect societies that support some men wealthy enough to afford vast harems staffed by eunuchs, are societies that have exceeded the natural balance of power among their members, resulting in great poverty at one end and excess riches at the other end.

Either extreme is likely to produce aberrant behavior—so one should not take the behavior practiced by the desperately poor or the idle rich as representative of normal human behavior.

[dayglored]

> Although the majority of societies have accepted polygamy, that does not mean having an unlimited number of wives is a good thing.

Indeed, I found that one was quite enough.

> I suspect societies that support some men wealthy enough to afford vast harems staffed by eunuchs, are societies that have exceeded the natural balance of power among their members, resulting in great poverty at one end and excess riches at the other end... Either extreme is likely to produce aberrant behavior—so one should not take the behavior practiced by the desperately poor or the idle rich as representative of normal human behavior.

That's an excellent point. Well stated!