Polygyny

Question: What is the difference between Polygamy and Polygyny? I am writing a paper and I was told not to conflate the two terms, but I don't see the difference between the two at all.

Answer: Polygamy is having more that one spouse. Polygyny is an example in which a man has more that one wife.

Question: Are people who complain that POLYGYNY is a spelling error guilty of a venial sin or just a lack of education? Related Question: Should posting arrogant "corrections" of non-existent spelling errors on R&S lead to point deductions or is this just an example of a sin that is its own public penalty? ___________________ DS: Ironically, once you get some education, you will find that that is a famous myth. Indeed, every large university has a Religious Studies faculty. Yet, you won't find your "fact" in any of their textbooks. Interesting, isn't? It is amazing the superstitions and urban legends that education can solve.

Answer: If you believe, and buy into sin, you are uneducated.

Question: With religious objections overcome, will legalization of homosexual marriage lead to polygyny legalization? After all, polygynous marriage was common and very casually mentioned in some of the cultures of the Bible. If homosexual marriage is accepted -- despite strong prohibitions in the Bible -- won't there be far less "Biblical obstacles" to polygynous marriage by comparison?

Answer: You have a very good point. Despite common belief. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be against that too. (Those are the "Mormons" to those less advanced.) By the way, I don't know if the general population will know what polygyny is. And shouldn't it be more like polyuxory.

Question: What are "polygamdry" and "polygyny"? Can you give me the definition for these 2 words? What are "polygamdry" and "polygyny"? Can you give me the definition for these 2 words? And what are the difference between these 2?????? I need these answers ASAP!!! THANX A LOT! :)

Answer: Polygyny 1. the practice or condition of having more than one wife at one time. 2. (among male animals) the habit or system of having two or more mates, either simultaneously or successively. 3. (among social insects) the condition of having two or more functioning queens in a colony. 4. Botany. the state or condition of having many pistils or styles. ... and "Polygamdry" is not listed in any US/English dictionary, but suggested "Polygamy" Polygamy –noun 1. the practice or condition of having more than one spouse, esp. wife, at one time. 2. Zoology. the habit or system of mating with more than one individual, either simultaneously or successively. I hope this helps some, as I was not able to find the first word in any English dictionary. Drop me an email if you find that it was just misspelled and I will research it for you.

Question: Let me rephrase: Should polygyny and sibling incest be legal if it's allowed in the Bible? polygyny: noun; A marriage structure where men have more than one wife at a time.

Answer: If polygamy were to be allowed for both men and women, and incest not lead to birth defects or problems with in the family blood line then I would have no problem with either of those things.

Question: Should polyandry/polygyny be legalized along with gay marriage? OK, I have seen many questions about legalizing polygamy, but no one mentions polyandry except in the comments. So 1 wife 2 husbands, 1 husband 2 wives, or 2 husbands and 2 wives all consenting happily married. Why would you prevent any of the above?

Answer: One man is enough for me, thanks!

Question: Wouldn't polygyny distibute wealth evenly through society and become self limiting? I think it would. Think it through. If men can marry four wives but must be able to provide for them all, wealthy men would marry four women, comfortable men would marry two, middling men could have one and poor men would have none. If each woman averaged two children, wealthy men would have eight, comfortable men four, middling men two and poor men none. In the next generation wealthy estates would be divided by eight, comfortable estates by four, etc. Poor women would leave poverty through marriage. Their daughters will be wealthy or comfortable women through inheritance. This means if a poor man has a son and a daughter, the son will be poor but the daughter will be rich. Half the children of the poor could enter the ranks of the wealthy or comfortable through marriage. The grandchildren of a poor man would be rich. Over time distribution of concentrated wealth through inheritance, as each rich mans estate was distrubuted among more people would have wealth distributed evenly through society. As wealth is more evenly distributed, more men would become marriagable. Polygamy would still exist because women will always prefer to share a good man than be stuck alone with a loser man, but it would be only as frequent as the number of loser men and not depend on a rich man's ability to support several wives while poor men can support none. So how is this bad?

Answer: The easiest way to get really wealthy is to have a married household of two high earning people. High earning women won't enter polygamous relationships because they don't need to. High earning men in polygamous relationships atomize their wealth amongst large families, and thus cease to be high wealth within a generation or two, unless they are Saudis with functionally limitless wealth. Polygamy therefore is economically uncompetitive/unsustainable in the medium term. Also, why would you marry additional wives when there are only minimal boundaries on extra-marital sex in modern society? You basically would be paying for something you can get in the marketplace easily anyway if it was important to you. As long as your first wife can have the number of children that you want, there is not much incentive to take more. Additional wives would just cause additional expense with minimal corrallary benefit.

Question: What effect can polygyny, lek, and polyandry have on the genetic make-up of a population?

Answer: In any polygamous mating system, many individuals of a particular sex fail to mate, while others of that sex produce extra offspring. So the effective population size is less than the census count, and the genetic variability of the population is smaller, in keeping with the smaller effective population size. In polygamous systems involving mate choice by one sex, such as with lek systems, sexual selection is likely to be an important factor, and so the sex that is the subject of the mate choice (generally males) is likely to evolve morphological and behavioral displays generally indicative of health. In polygamous systems involving direct competition for harems, the competing sex (generally males) is likely to evolve to be larger and more capable of fighting than the other sex.

Question: Muslim Women organization that I attend condemns polygyny, is it haram for me to stay? I don't condemn something that has been allowed by Allah, but my friends do. Other than that, I love to join this organization coz mostly, we work to help poors in education and healthcare

Answer: NO-ONE has a right to outlaw something Allah has made lawful.

Question: PLEASE HELP Question about polygyny and polyandry? why is there variation in whether and hot much wives are jealous of each other, acorss societies that practice polygyny? as for polyandry, why is it so rare and when it does occur, why is it usually a woman married to a set of brothers?

Answer: You should look in an ecology or anthropology text book. There are certain preset conditions that almost always lead to polygyny or polyandry (human and animal speaking - they deal with resources, availability of mates, who carries the babies, etc). When a woman puts in the energy to nurse a child for 9 months, it would not be cost-effective to not mother it. Being that women would have to raise the children to successfully pass on the genes, an untrustworthy male would not be disadvantageous and often leads to fullblown polygyny. Also it leads into r and K selection. Being that most mammals provide care to a few of their young instead of no care while producing thousands of young, the need for parental care develops and when that happens...some form of polygamy develops. It's a deep and rich topic which is explained in entire sections of ecology.

Question: Polygamy (polygyny more specifically): If a first wife is called a Domina, what are the others called?

Answer: uh.... Uxor puellae?

Question: why do people believe that polygyny (one man many wives and no bisexuality) is unchristian and a sin? and to non-believers y do u believe that polygyny is wrong. personally i have no-problem with it

Answer: The only comment about monogamy in the Bible is that it is preferable for church leaders such as deacons, elders and bishops.

Question: Is there hypocrisy implicit in condemning "legally registered polygyny" but not "serial polygyny"?

Answer: Yes. They are both wrong Society is nothing if not hypocritical

Question: What is wrong with the practice of polygyny (marriage to more than one woman)? If everyone agrees and are adult and able to consent, what is wrong with polygyny? If it prevents sin and provides relief to woman both financially and otherwise why should people care? Why shouldn't it be legal? Afterall, the purpose of civil marriage is for the keeping of records and tax breaks. Most people of faith are more concerned about their marriage in their prosepctive church, temple or mosque not their state. If a woman wants to "have it all" a career, children and a home would she not have an eaiser time if she did not have to care for a man 24/7? Shouldn't women want for another woman what she wants for herself? Isn't it more respectful to women to have marriage and a relationship approved by God than to be fornicating or commiting adultery? Are men and women really equal anyway? Aren't their natures different?

Answer: >>Why shouldn't it be legal? Afterall, the purpose of civil marriage is for the keeping of records and tax breaks.<< Indeed, if that is the purpose of civil marriage, it should be legal.

Question: Is polygyny a sin? If it is, should that be a basis for restricting it by law?

Answer: As far as I know, it is against the law.

Question: What do you think of the theory that polygyny causes terrorism and violence? The theory is based on the logic that for every man who is allowed to have several wives (or a harem), several men wind up with no wives, ever. Couple that with a belief that if you die violently, your reward is a harem of virgins of your own, and voila, you have a suicide bomber! Or if you become a powerful man by leading others to their deaths as suicide bombers, you get to have your harem here on earth. Makes sense to me. We all get cranky if we're denied sex, don't we?

Answer: This theory would be well worth researching. It is also worthy of note that the majority of the reported participants in the Mountain Meadows Massacre were single in a polygamous Mormon/LDS society.

Question: Anyone else think that polygyny is a dumb term? The common usage of polygamy is more than one wife, which is also the definition of polygyny. Polygyny is a form of polygamy, as well as polygamy being synonymous with polygamy. Yet some people insist on using the term polygyny to refer to the polygamists of Utah. I think it's dumb. I think people should just say, "The polygamists practice polygamy," which is techncially true, rather than saying things like, "The FLDS church practices polygyny."

Answer: It's all semantics to me.

Question: Ephesians 5:31-33 certainly describes the process of marriage. But does it explicitly prohibit polygyny? "a man shall leave his parents and join with his wife and the two shall become one". (See Ephesians 5:31-33) After all, some Fundamentalist Mormon groups quote the same scripture to describe how their family grows, as each additional wife adds to the "oneness" of the one family unit of "one flesh".

Answer: Yes, it explicitly prohibits polygyny. Paul quotes Jesus, who quotes Genesis:    5 “It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. 6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’[a] 7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,[b] 8 and the two will become one flesh.’[c] So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” The TWO (not 3, 4, 5, etc.) shall become one flesh. Paul gets explicit in 1 Cor 6: 16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” 17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit." Cheers, Bruce

Question: What people don't understand about polygyny in Islam? Before the Qur'ân was revealed, there was no upper limit for polygyny and many men had scores of wives, some even hundreds. Islam put a limit to that. The Qur'ân is the only religious book on the face of the earth that says ‘marry only one’. And while Polygyny is permissible it is on the condition that the husband deals justly with all his wives. The verse says it is permissible to marry up to 4 wives but if you can't treat them justly then marry only one

Answer: Hm. In the New Testament, it is very clear that a Bishop (an office within the Christian church) be the husband of _one_ wife. If the Qur'an says "marry only one," then why is polygamy permissible within Islam? That seems to be a contradiction in concept.

Question: Is polygamy (both polygyny and polyandry) legal in Japan? I'm Japanese but I haven't been living in Japan... I'm embarrassed to ask my family because they'll think that I want to be involved in polygamy lol... is it legal in Japan? Thanks :) Prophet - My boyfriend is Indo-Chinese. I love all good people equally.

Answer: You can only be legally married to one person at once in Japan. However-if you do something strange for the sake of your religion in Japan, the authorities are unlikely to step in unless you start putting Sarin on the subway or something like that.