“By allowing high-status men to hoard wives...”
Why think that men will be able to hoard wives? If a man can have more than one wife, a woman can have more than one husband. If a man has two wives, each of the wives can have at least one other husband.
I wonder what the husbands would be to each other. Husbands-in-Law by virtue of having the same wife? “Brother Husbands” reflecting the term “Sister Wives” I’ve heard used in regard to the multiple wives of one husband?
If the first man in the chain has two wives, and each of the wives has another husband, and each of those husbands has another wife, is the first man in the chain related to those last wives by marriage?
My head hurts, not to mention my heart.
I always thought that a woman with two or more husbands would be in a great position. Income from all the husbands, home raising the children and smiling. The guys having a happy wife, lots of children and building financial security.
I understand that this situation is somewhat common in some parts of China where women are rare and instead of valuing the wife, she is essentially a sex slave.