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  • 'Big Love': Real Polygamists Look at HBO Polygamists and Find Sex

    03/28/2006 12:42:20 PM PST · by mathprof · 140 replies · 3,149+ views
    nyt ^ | 3/28/06 | FELICIA R. LEE
    "Big Love," HBO's new take on a fictional polygamous family in the suburbs of this city, was on the television. The Viagra-popping Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton) was thrashing in bed with Margene (Ginnifer Goodwin), the youngest of his three wives. The five women watching the show — covering their eyes during the sex scenes, chiding the competitive wives, urging Bill to take control — were critics with special credentials: a current or past polygamous marriage. And despite the show's flaws, these women called "Big Love" a cultural benchmark, one with the potential to cast a warmer light on their lives....
  • I pronounce you man and wife, wife, wife

    03/08/2006 10:37:00 AM PST · by laney · 63 replies · 1,901+ views
    CNN ^ | March 8th, 2006
    'Big Love's' big subject: polygamy Seen one way, it's a domestic comedy distorted by a lens that fleshes out one housewife into three. Seen another, it's a male dream in full flower: one man presiding over three attractive women, each of whose beds he shares according to the schedule his wives draft at the dining room table. "Three days can seem like such an eternity," sighs Margene, Bill Henrickson's newest and youngest, when her night comes around. "Honey, I miss you, too," he consoles her. "If I don't say so, it's 'cause I don't want Nicki and Barb to think...