MAP Forum

The entire global North is not currently recognizing polygamous marriages. Depending on where you live, polygamy has been banned for 1.5 millenium to a few decades. Monogamy-supremacist braindead mindset was enforced in different times by Roman officials, Christian priests, communist politicians (Vietnam is a perfect example when the culture has been polygamy-friendly traditionally for milleniums, but then people in power basically followed Carl Marx's trash-talking against polygamy and criminalized it).

However, no matter how long the night is, I know it's just a short time compared to polygamy-friendly parts of human history (I'd also count the prehistoric period where while marriage institution and laws in general didn't exist, polygamy was pretty much common in a sense that polygamous men of that time didn't care how many women they have intimacy with as long as they get offspings to continue on their legacy — just like most of mammal species).

While polygamy is on its separate mating system spectrum and as such doesn't stick in the same category with various sexualities and paraphilias, monogamy-supremacists sometimes accuse polygamists to be MAPs in a negative way simply because they choose significantly younger wives. If polygamy were liberated in the most of the "well-fed" world, would it indirectly help on the MAP cause by expanding the mainstream definition of marriage (which for normies is just two people, or one man + one woman in most Eastern European counties)?

I think it's a way to challenge the institution of marriage in a way that is more radical than extending the concept to include new types of couples. Maybe not just polygamy, but also group marriage.

I only said I slightly support because I don't really know the consequences of normalising these types of marriage. Certainly, it would have to be founded on gender equality, the right to escape from the marriage at any time without worrying about losing means of subsistence, and so on. So not the form of polygamy that was common in several cultures.

I’ve always been of the opinion that individuals in life should do what they want. If someone wants to enter into a polygamous relationship, they should have the right to do so without anyone saying anything—although personally, given my character, I would absolutely stay away from something like that. It would make me anxious and I would handle it very poorly, even just because of the social dynamics involved.

I honestly don’t think it would help the MAP cause, though. I think the foundations are already there. In the sense that we already live in societies where sex outside of marriage is allowed and where divorce is permitted. We currently live in a society with a form of monogamy where people constantly change partners.

In itself, I don’t even have an issue with how this polygamy presents itself—whether it’s a male harem or some kind of 50/50 equality. Toxic relationships already exist within monogamy; I don’t think polygamy needs special attention from that perspective. In the end, it’s always an individual choice—even entering into a bad marriage.

I voted neutral. I personally have no desire to engage in the practice but I support your right to do so. I am like our government in WWII.

I would say strongly support, but I prefer the term polyamory as it's gender neutral and encompasses all relationships with 3+ members, although it doesn't necessarily suggest a marriage tie. Polygamy is usually 1 man and many women or girls, and polyandry the same with inverted genders.