What are your personal thoughts on polygyny or polyandry?

Or you could think about it the other way around; you were born with the instinct to mother as many children as possible, but modern society told you "No! It's unacceptable!"

Not only no, but HELL NO! If I had that "instinct" to just have more, or if I actually "wanted" more, I wouldn't do specific things to make damn sure that didn't happen. I have 4 as it is, I certainly don't have a continued "need" or "want" to have any more. It honestly has absolutely nothing to do with society. If I worried an ounce of what society thought, I probably would have stopped at 2.

Reproductive processes, such as polygamy arise from those primal regions, so to eliminate them from this discussion is pretty much reducing this problem to opinions. That is definitely not doing the question any justice.

Thread topic= What are your personal thoughts on polygyny or polyandry?

That pretty much equates to opinion.

That pretty much equates to opinion.

Is that why you keep re-entering the thread and double-posting? To repeatedly shove your opinion and the irrelevant stories about your personal life? So it is perfectly fine for you to disagree with my opinion, but you have a problem when I disagree with the opinions of others?

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Fyi, the forum title says "Cool, collected chat over a good brew." Stating your own opinion without any regard for the opinions of others is not a "chat". We know what you believe. You've stated it dozens of times. You're just shamelessly plugging in your opinion after every post that disagrees with yours, and without much justification or evidence. After a while, it becomes pointless and annoying.

I was under the impression that moderators are supposed to serve as role-models for the community they moderate. I know you are a parent, because you've irrelevantly plugged in this fact in dozens of threads including this one. I sure hope you don't try and brainwash your own children like this, because such propagandist method is destructive.

Why would any man want more estrogen around?? Women are crazy, but that makes those kinds of men even crazier. It honestly makes me want to vomit. Nothing more than brainwashing IMO.

LOL no worries. There is a reason my best friend in the world is a man lol. Women are crazy.

Men tend to be just as crazy, more so in some cases. In fact, the human race is nothing more than a ballet of insanity.

If polygamy is a social accepted aspect of life there should be no emotional distress.

Lol, that's like saying "If I had known where the thing was, I probably would've found it by now."
There is NO polygamy because of the emotional distress. Though I do find it interesting to try and simulate the feeling in the same situation if the sperm ratio somehow were 2:1. Thing most likely would be different.

Have you ever observed a worker ant complain to another worker ant that they share the same queen?

They only have one queen, I'm pretty sure I heard they wanted the queen all for themselves, but situation dictated that they couldn't complain about it. Have you?

It's hard to tell what part of your intuition is basic instinct and what is adopted social etiquette. Then again, don't a small number of mammals also participate in monogamy? Wouldn't that mean it is as natural (and not just social) as polygamy, just maybe not as likely for human without any other factors? There is also this.

If anyone wants to see what a polygamy family is like you can watch sister wives on TLC.

Thread sure spawned some decent posts outta you guys, I'm formulating my thoughts at the moment, since it's a bit cluttered-up.

I think they only other animal that only(should) have one mate in their life is Penguins. To be honest, its not something that would bother me,but not something I would want. I believe in true love and such, I don't believe it can be shared.