Polygamy and Poly-amorous relationships?

[Iconoclast]

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It is.

[TT]

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But mostly sexual gratification without the risk of adultery.

[OYMWA]

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@SaeedinPakistan

How are gods and wives correlated?..

They are not; just pointing out how fundamentally different the two thoughts are.

[OYMWA]

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@TT

But mostly sexual gratification without the risk of adultery.

Or to make them take responsibility for their actions?

As much as we would like to think marriage is all about sex, it is not. It is a legal contract, in both secular and religious sense, to protect rights of the individuals. When the same-sex marriage proponents ask it to be legalized, that is exactly what they are asking. They want their individual rights to be protected. They are not asking state’s permission to have sex. The west got out of the business of legislating sex. Even if ‘adultery’ is illegal in many states, it is rarely enforced.

[TT]

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@OneYourMomWarnedAbt

Or to make them take responsibility for their actions?

As much as we would like to think marriage is all about sex, it is not. It is a legal contract, in both secular and religious sense, to protect rights of the individuals. When the same-sex marriage proponents ask it to be legalized, that is exactly what they are asking. They want their individual rights to be protected. They are not asking state’s permission to have sex. The west got out of the business of legislating sex. Even if ‘adultery’ is illegal in many states, it is rarely enforced.

Except in the Islamic context, polygyny is mostly about sex and the same rights of the individuals, the right to have multiple spouses, are not extended to women.
Personally I don’t think there is anything wrong with polygamy but as I stated earlier, it would create a legal and moral blunder in secular societies. How many partners can an individual have?

[Iconoclast]

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^Why?

In secular societies people already have multiple partners.

[PyariCgudia]

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poly-amorous: sex

polygamy: sex…and then paying for a lot of stuff for too many women. and then having to pay for all the kids you made with them. After which, you lose interest in the sex, and want to castrate yourself. (< – great option and endpoint for some guys)

[psyah]

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@SaeedinPakistan

How are gods and wives correlated?

I think poly-amorous relationships (open-marriages) are fairer. Unlike the Islamic version of polygamy, **both **people in a poly-amorous relationship are free to be with other people.

Peace SaeedinPakistan

Women in ancient Arabia were shared around male friends … A man could give his own mother away …

The concept of polygamy was well understood in those times and the social effects were well understood too. Yet, since the edicts as established by RasoolAllah (SAW) were so to remove harm and unfairness I can’t see how you are right. For some reason you think numerical parity is the same as fairness.

[Wane]

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^ is the implementation of those edicts still needed, given that the harm / unfairness / practice of sharing women is quite far removed from the modern day society?