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Do you agree with Polygamy?

I've been reading a few articles in regards to polygamy and its beginning to get to me... I despise of polygamous relationships. Although i'll gladly respect someone in such a relationship i am truly against polygamy. I'm a gay man but still believe in the sanctity of marriage between 2 people...not 3 or more....

IF you think it should be legal...why? I mean its no longer an equal relationship.

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  • 6 years ago
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    I don't have an opinion on the subject because I am not that way inclined.

    I see no issue with supporters of such a lifestyle coming together and putting their needs and views to the over all community and so generate a healthy debate in the hope that the community can then make an informed decision, one way or the other. But just now as so many of us have little more than dinner table gossip to get our information, most of us dont have enough accurate information to decide.

  • 6 years ago

    no.

    polygamy is inherently destructive to social stability, because it leaves large numbers of heterosexual men alone, without the possibility of marriage.

    china, because of its one-child policy, has an imbalance of males to females.

    this is because couples have chosen to abort female babies, in favor of trying again for a male child.

    as a result, china is experiencing more criminal behavior from young males who cannot find wives, and do not experience the civilizing effect that marriage imparts.

    these young men are less motivated to achieve, because without the reward of companionship, many chronic bachelors eventually give up on success.

    also, look at what happened in mormon polygamist sects -- the "lost boys" were young men who were forced out of the community to make way for the remaining men to marry more women.

    magnify that over an entire society, and you have the makings of a demographic disaster.

    this is entirely separate from the issue of homosexuality, because the percentage of gays is more or less equal in both genders, so that they cancel each other out in terms of their effect on gender imbalance.

  • 6 years ago

    As long as no one is pressured into it and all the people in the relationship are happy with the arrangement I see nothing wrong with it.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    I personally believe that as long as everyone is happy and committed that there is nothing wrong with it. That is just my opinion.

  • 6 years ago

    not my thing but if thats what other people wanna do im cool with it

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