Alicorn comments on Unknown knowns: Why did you choose to be monogamous? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 27 June 2010 06:32:02PM 5 points [-]

Polygamy by definition involves relationships in which one man has several wives.

Not necessarily. The fraternal polyandry practiced in Tibet is polygamy, and it would still be polygamy even if it were the only kind of polygamy in the world. You seem to mean "polygyny".

Comment author: WrongBot 27 June 2010 07:04:37PM 0 points [-]

Thank you for the correction; I was indeed speaking of polygyny.

The principle of my point still holds for polygamy, however. Polyandry is no more egalitarian than polygyny; any relationship in which only one person is permitted to have other partners lies outside polyamory's accepted definition.