I think this article (Link) on the history of marriage probably provides a more realistic view of how monogamy came to be seen as culturally optimum.
“If the top 5% of the men conrol 20% of the women, that means the bottom 20% of the male population, having no chance of marriage, comprise a eunuch or homosexual underclass. Not good.”
Which will make the homosexualists even more in favor of polygamy.
In a not too dissimilar segway from your post, look at Red China. All that “1-child only” resulting in couples having only boys and aborting girls is bound to result in a somewhat similar situation. And all those womenless men are bound to make a very toxic and fierce fighting force(not good news for us.)
Thank you for the link. I came across a “World Polyamory Association” which is involved in activism to legalize polyamory: http://worldpolyamoryassociation.net/2013/02/legalize-polyamory/
Wouldn't surprise me if that's about the same set of conditions that currently exists in large American cities, where a small percentage of men, both married and unmarried, have extra-marital sex with the majority of women, both married and unmarried.
Basically, you can outlaw polygyny, but the nature of mankind is such that it simply goes on anyway--though without a marriage license.
And it may also be, that in cases where the less successful men think they have found wives, that their wives cuckold them by getting pregnant in affairs with richer and more powerful men than their husbands, thus (in most cases, unconsciously) ensuring the resulting babies will have better genes.
Researchers have done genetic testing of neighborhoods and discovered that a substantial percentage (I believe around 25%) of children were not related to the husband of their mothers, though that would have been news to those husbands.
Wouldn't surprise me if that's about the same set of conditions that currently exists in large American cities, where a small percentage of men, both married and unmarried, have extra-marital sex with the majority of women, both married and unmarried.
Basically, you can outlaw polygyny, but the nature of mankind is such that it simply goes on anyway--though without a marriage license.
And it may also be, that in cases where the less successful men think they have found wives, that their wives cuckold them by getting pregnant in affairs with richer and more powerful men than their husbands, thus (in most cases, unconsciously) ensuring the resulting babies will have better genes.
Researchers have done genetic testing of neighborhoods and discovered that a substantial percentage (I believe around 25%) of children were not related to the husband of their mothers, though that would have been news to those husbands.
Wouldn't surprise me if that's about the same set of conditions that currently exists in large American cities, where a small percentage of men, both married and unmarried, have extra-marital sex with the majority of women, both married and unmarried.
Basically, you can outlaw polygyny, but the nature of mankind is such that it simply goes on anyway--though without a marriage license.
And it may also be, that in cases where the less successful men think they have found wives, that their wives cuckold them by getting pregnant in affairs with richer and more powerful men than their husbands, thus (in most cases, unconsciously) ensuring the resulting babies will have better genes.
Researchers have done genetic testing of neighborhoods and discovered that a substantial percentage (I believe around 25%) of children were not related to the husband of their mothers, though that would have been news to those husbands.