When I think of polygamy, I am reminded of the “Unintended Consequences” of that sort of marriage.
#1 Affluent males can attract more females than less affluent males. The reasons for that are well studied.
#2 Women no longer will be looked upon as “individuals” they will be or are looked upon as status symbols and property. This does take time but history shows that this is the end result of polygamy.
#3 Less Affluent males, may find themselves without a mate for most of their lives or until they have earned enough to “buy” one.
#4 Families will try to concentrate Family or Clan wealth by intermarriage to cousins. Wealth is also construed as keeping the “Dowries” within the family or clan structure.
#5 Those males unable to find a wife through economic affluence or Family connections will turn to Homosexuality for relief of “pressures”.
In other words Polygamy will also lead to increases in the Homosexual community.
Re #2 - in “Soylent Green” they were “furniture”.
A traditional way of relieving the societal pressures of “excess” males is war.
#2 Women no longer will be looked upon as “individuals” they will be or are looked upon as status symbols and property. This does take time but history shows that this is the end result of polygamy.
Mormon prophet Heber C Kimball -
“I think no more of taking another wife than I do of buying a cow.” - Apostle Heber C. Kimball, The Twenty Seventh Wife, Irving Wallace, p. 101.
“Brethren, I want you to understand that it is not to be as it has been heretofore. The brother missionaries have been in the habit of picking out the prettiest women for themselves before they get here, and bringing on the ugly ones for us; hereafter you have to bring them all here before taking any of them, and let us all have a fair shake.” - Apostle Heber C. Kimball, The Lion of the Lord, New York, 1969, pp.129-30.
“In other words Polygamy will also lead to increases in the Homosexual community.”
Which will give the homosexualists more reason to support it. Also, the socialists should love polygamy because it will probably result in more folks on the dole and increase the number of Democratic voters.