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drethelin comments on Poly marriage? - Less Wrong Discussion

-9 Post author: h-H 06 June 2012 07:57PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 07 June 2012 04:30:04PM 0 points [-]

Two questions.

1) If women are generally willing to share men, how does it come about that the women are being "hogged" (which I understand to mean that they are partnered with only one man)?

2) Is #2 a special case of a general belief that family arrangements that are less stable than currently-legally-recognized families ought not be celebrated or recognized by law? Or does it just apply to this case?

Comment author: drethelin 07 June 2012 05:15:17PM 1 point [-]

Women are willing to share a man, and the man is unwilling to share his women.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 07 June 2012 05:24:45PM 0 points [-]

Ah, I see. (nods) That makes sense.