If polygamy was legal, would you want to have more than one husband and/or wife?

Benefits of polygamy:
-Possibly more love
-More money (if multiple spouses have jobs)
-Source of pride/status (in some cultures)

Consequences of polygamy:
-Have to divide attention between spouses
-Possible jealousy between spouses

Personally, I would not want multiple wives.

I think that most of the cultures that allowed polygamy was only because women were treat as a valuable economical resource (And this keeps on).
So having more women would equal more money, more power.

Personally my opinion is a big "no". And I wouldn't want to be with someone who cares about someone else (for loving or economical reasons).

Monogamy is for women, polygamy is for men. It's biological. A man can produce basically unlimited offspring for the rest of his life. Women can only produce limited offspring for less than half their lives. That's why men are competitive and women are choosy. Because they make the larger commitment.

I think most time men submit to monogamy is for the sake of the offspring.

I voted yes, but only under 1 very important condition:

- The wives would have to be fine with it. (also removes the downside of jealousy)

Should be a 'maybe' option.

I don't foresee myself becoming anything but monogamous, and I don't think I'd want to be with a guy with more than one wife. I wouldn't be comfortable with it. But I guess it is possible for others to safely and happily be in polygamous relationships. I just think the odds are against them.

No, I would not. I would prefer to monogamous.

I wouldn't make use of it, but I don't see why the option shouldn't exist for other people. It's along the same lines as gay marriage, the primary reason it's illegal is because some religion said it's immoral, even though no one is victimized.

I'd support it as long as the option to marry multiple spouses wasn't dependent on your gender, and all current spouses needed to agree in order to accept the new spouse.

If it was legalized, I think our culture would adapt fairly quickly to the change.

From a legal standpoint, there are complications such as tax and other advantages given to married couples like not being able to be forced to incriminate your spouse. If there was no numerical limit on marriage it would be much easier to set up these sorts of rorts, which will take more time and effort to determine whether a marriage is 'legitimate' or being done for fraudulent reasons - of course this already happens, but it'd be worse if larger marriage graphs were able to be created.

Yeh we bitch now about the missus taking half... *shudder*

They took 7/8ths!!!

This is one of the reasons I feel marriage should be dropped from government recognition entirely.

It's just too much to keep track of, and it doesn't end at polygamy, we also have license bestial marriages too, as to not discriminate any religion.

Erm, not really. Just because some religion exists somewhere that espouses some particular thing, doesn't mean the government must allow it or make it legal to do that. If that were the case, there'd be all sorts of religions around doing everything under the sun to get around government regulation: the religion of "not wearing seatbelts in cars" and the religion of "drunk driving" etc.

Clearly you've never heard of Rastafarianism which in short is the movement to make pot into a religion and therefore get around government regulations. In the US we have this lulzy thing called "the 1st amendment" which says our congress "shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" which means what you said already happens all the time lolololol.

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I'd say no

but it's really difficult for me to imagine a polygamy status... I can only imagine it bringing annoyance and pain into my life.

Ugh, everything you posted is so wrong. The Rastafari is not at all a movement to "make pot into a religion." Just... ugh. That is so ignorant.
Also, the 1st Amendment ("no law respecting an establishment of religion") has been interpreted in quite the opposite -- the government is not allowed to make exceptions to laws regarding drugs for religions, in the same way polygamy is not legal even though it is a part of some religions. (See Neo-American Church, League of Spiritual Discovery, and Timothy Leary)
Sorry for going so far off-topic, but I couldn't let that go by without saying something.

We can already sleep with as many women as we want to, the moment you move towards marriage you are looking at a relationship that transcends the desire to simply reproduce, but instead it shows a bond that runs deeper than that.

Any person that would be married to more than one person, should not be married to a single person.

Voted yes because when we all cuddle for the night, I can be the big spoon AND the little spoon. Surely no disadvantages can outweigh this.

There was a point in highschool where if polygamy was considered normal, I could be a very happy man right now. A relationship that didn't need to end was ended because there was a bit of a love triangle. The one I was dating and the other were friends, so she broke up with me out of consideration for her friend. I doubt that it needs to be said, but that was such a stupid and weird scenario that none of us talked much afterwards.

Sounds like a made up excuse?

Well considering we were fine and she didn't even date anyone for about a year or two after that, I don't think it was. Plus she kind of lost her best friend out of the whole thing, so I would chuck it up to stupidity.