What’s the difference between serial monogamy and having a different wife for each night of the week?
Only the time horizon of the infidelity.
Care to explain:
a) how allowing most men to marry consitutes “controlling” them or
b) just how the Romans achieved this triumph?
St. Paul rejects plural marriage:
Timothy 3:1-5
“This saying is trustworthy: whoever aspires to the office of bishop desires a noble task. Therefore, a bishop must be irreproachable, married only once, temperate, self-controlled, decent, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not aggressive, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, keeping his children under control with perfect dignity; for if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how can he take care of the church of God?”
Considering that the Romans were the ruling power at the time, it wasn’t hard for them to make the rules..
They controlled the population by declaring a long held way of life illegal.
The difference between serial monogamy and plural marriage is that it isn’t always “a different wife each nite of the week”.. you don’t switch wives or unmarry them.. you are still married to every woman you love simultaneously.. the bedroom schedule is determined by everyone.. mostly the women decide what works for THEM.. in “normal” polygyny situations (based on love, not force) women make most of the decisions.. there are more of them therefore they have the power. The man is still the head, but there is strength in numbers.. contrary to the “oppresive patriarchal” vision most feminists fear.