It’s funny to read all of the objections to people having “multiple partners” but what most of them object to is the idea of multiple partners >at the same time<.
Serial monogamists like our President (who I support) are acceptable to these people even though his multiple marriages would offend them only if the marriages were concurrent. But because they’re consecutive it’s somehow acceptable.
And of course it’s still socially acceptable for single men to have as many sexual partners as they possibly can and that remains acceptable. Some of them are even celebrated for having multiple casual partners at the same time.
But if they commit to these multiple partners and commit to taking responsibility for the children they create then that makes them evil?
Seems to me that committed polygamy is far less of a threat to society than is the selective morality that eats away at the foundations of our civilization.
The problem with committed polygamy is it takes several desirables “off the market” who otherwise would be available to others who now faced diminished prospects. And there’s a severe bias in that arrangement toward one male & multiple females, as the “one” can service all others and share identifiable offspring relationships ... vs the reverse arrangement, where multiple men are sitting around wondering why they’re sacrificing for offspring who isn’t identifiably theirs.
It’s funny to read all of the objections to people having “multiple partners” but what most of them object to is the idea of multiple partners >at the same time<.
Serial monogamists like our President (who I support) are acceptable to these people even though his multiple marriages would offend them only if the marriages were concurrent. But because they’re consecutive it’s somehow acceptable.
And what is considered ‘acceptable’ in a fleeting moment in a given place is also irrelevant to certain Laws that will be obeyed or risk extinction. A culture also is subject to Survival of the Fittest. If we persist in fostering a value system [or lack, thereof] that selects our society for extinction, Nature will oblige.
Regardless of whether it is multiple opposite or same-sex, regardless of how many people are in the intimate relationship, the same fundamental rule applies: Being a person who has intimate contact with multiple partners who themselves also have multiple partners is guaranteed not to last w/o negative consequence.
Period.
Nature cannot be cajoled, manipulated, cheated, deceived, bullied, etc. We cannot do whatever we want. We will correct our own self-destructive behavior or we shall be Corrected.