Indeed.
And Smith, when he approached women, would couch it all in spiritual terms. Marriage was forever, he claimed. It would go well with them for eternity to be linked to the head-hauncho of the church.
In the case of the 14 yo girl he married, we have her written words. In no uncertain terms, she was told it would go well for her family spiritually and eternally if she "consented."
So, yes, Smith had to sanction the sex as part of a new "marriage arrangement" umbrella or these women would have never gone along.
They were duped, but no more than any average Mormon is likewise duped by the spiritual fraudulent claims of Smith.
I firmly believe that the $1.4 billion (& counting) in Lds fraudulent victims the past several years as referenced in post #69 is God concluding, "You want to buy into such spiritual fraud? Then I'm withdrawing my hedge of protection from you from other types of fraud as well!"