By: Anthony
What is the social difference between a society where a smallish number of powerful/wealthy men have, aside from their formal wives, mistresses who bear them children versus having mistresses who...
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By: Leor
@pconroy — that’s BS. you are shmutzing up the heimishe yidden of Brooklyn with your naarishkeit “reasonably good authority.” There have been no multiple marriages among any Ashkenazim for about a...
View ArticleBy: Dan
One would have to wonder about the steep decline of all forms of marriage in the West. Is this an indication of a sudden rupture in the very types of norms being praised here? After all, the life of...
View ArticleBy: Grey
“Is there a strong preference among the playas in those groups *for* having children by multiple women, or merely an indifference to fathering children?)” Yes, it’s a kind of a competition and how many...
View ArticleBy: Clark
Anthony (28) in theory (if not always in practice) actual wives have more rights than a mistress does. Consider what happens at the death of man in terms of inheritance. This of course varies from...
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Clark — I meant Ashkenazim according to any standard definition. Spain is de facto out — that is Sefarad, not Ashkenaz. Although Ashkenazim did arrive in Spain in the middle ages, they most definitely...
View ArticleBy: Justin Giancola
“One could posit that perhaps males have a preference to accumulate status. In a pre-modern society even the wealthy usually did not have many material objects. Land, livestock, and women, were clear...
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#29, Leor, I don’t understand Yiddish… My informant about Satmar and other Hassidic groups in Brooklyn was my real estate broker, a former Hasidim, who left the community decades ago, but spoke Yiddish...
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@Leor, Another thing to remember is that just because something is officially banned or frowned upon, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not practiced. A friend used to work in HIV surveillance, and you’d...
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Leor, OK. I fully admit to not being up on the details of the history and I’ve seen it used to apply to all European Jews rather than just Germany and northern France. That’s why I asked.
View ArticleBy: Onur
Interestingly, Tunisia prohibits polygamy. It’s the only Muslim land I know of that does, probably due to French influences. Polygamy is also illegal in Turkey.
View ArticleBy: paradoctor
Monogamy is sexual socialism. Left to laissez-faire, the marriage market would become unbalanced by monopolists, resulting in large numbers of unmarriagable men; and such men tend to become a hazard to...
View ArticleBy: Steve Sailer
” A major twist here though is that they are proposing that the selective process operates upon cultural, not genetic, variation (memes, not genes).” One way to think of this is: “Who wins the wars?”
View ArticleBy: Robyn
I always laugh at the “women prefer to share an alpha than have a beta all to themselves” which is ALWAYS claimed by men! This is such a crock. Have you ever actually checked with any real life women?...
View ArticleBy: Robyn
Forgot to add that I have read that polygamous marriages aren’t the total male funfest most men imagine. The wives are jealous and gang up on each other and the man and all try to manipulate him to get...
View ArticleBy: Grey
From the paper “Given its historical rarity and apparent ill-fit with much of our evolved psychology, why has this marriage package spread so successfully? Historically, the emergence of monogamous...
View ArticleBy: ohwilleke
I am deeply skeptical of the claim of the graphic that more than 25% of women are in polygyny in almost all of West Africa and a substantial share of East Africa. I don’t doubt that polygyny exists and...
View ArticleBy: Onur
Validity of the polygyny map aside (I am very skeptical of the Turkish results as someone living in Turkey, as I have never personally encountered a polygamous person in Turkey), it has too few shades....
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BTW, polygamy is illegal in Turkey, so all polygamy cases in Turkey have to be unofficial. For those who don’t know, unofficial marriages are solemnized by prayer imams and have no legal status.
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