Wednesday, July 01, 2015

No, Polygamy Isn’t the Next Gay Marriage - Jonathan Rauch - POLITICO Magazine


I'm not just making this up. There's an extensive literature on polygamy.

Here's a 2012 study, for example, that discovered "significantly higher levels of rape, kidnapping, murder, assault robbery and fraud in polygynous cultures." According to the research, "monogamy's main cultural evolutionary advantage over polygyny is the more egalitarian distribution of women, which reduces male competition and social problems."



Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/polygamy-not-next-gay-marriage-119614.html#ixzz3eef2cBKO

---Steve

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