Has anyone heard of mormons, how they can marry multiple women

I studied up about a similar practice called polyarmory (loving more than one person--read about it at www.positivelysexual.com/alternatives/polyamory.htm). I still think that this may be what my boyfriend is going through...he still has an attachment after 12 years of living with M., but he claims to care about me too. I've even presented the idea to him, but I don't think he's ready to confront it. The practice of having more than one person you are married to is polygamy (read more at http://www.lds-mormon.com/mormon_polygamy.shtml). While it is true of their religion, it is an illegal practice here in the United States. You can read about The Center for Public Education and Information on Polygamy at www.polygamy.com too. A pro-polygamy article can be found at www.slate.com/id/2136453/ too. It can be something hard to deal with--almost as if you're the 'other' woman. HTH!

hehe, i see your point, however I am all for monogomus relations, I prefer only one man and he better prefer just one woman - ME! I could not stand to watch the man I love with someone else and I would hope that he feeels the same. My bf is a complete package also - and I need nothing more!

In the first place, poligamy is no longer allowed in the Mormon church. However, there are rebels who are still boing by the rules set down by Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, the founder and the one who took his place. That is why the Mormons were thrown out of towns and were forced to keep moving west until Brigham Young reached Utah and set down stakes. As the sect progressed the elders decided that the law of the land (government) must be followed strictly and poligany was banned. It was the same for the draft (when it was still in effect), Mormon men were not allowed by the elders to refuse to enter the military on the grounds of concientous objecter because the law of the land came first. I am not a Mormon but I had many colleagues who were when I was working in Washington. These were things that they told me and I, not having any other source, believed them.

Here in Australia, marriage is bound by law rather than local customs. So even if a religion allows multiple wives it would still be classed as bigamy/polygamy here and subject to legal action.

well, your point of view may be right.... but dont you think about affording one then more wife.... means you must be have children from them and their expenses and other household things.... how would you mannage all that.... did you think about it or you just fantasizing about pleasure..... think about reality man...

I think having more than one husband or wife is just wrong. People are not perfect and people will never be perfect. Having multiple husbands/wives for the sole purpose that one is missing a certain characteristic or quality should never cross one's mind. If you are unhappy with one than you never loved that person to begin with. Not all mormons practice poligamy today in fact many mormons give the evil eye at someone who does have multiple wives and those who do still practice poligamy get excommunicated from the church.

Polygamy (having more then one spouse) is no longer allowed in the Mormon religion. It hasn't been for a long time. And it is illegal in the USA. There are sects that still practice it but the other wives are not legal and have no legal rights to the man's estate (should he die), like the first wife would have. I have watched the shows on the polygamists and the practice fascinates me. I am of the opinion if it works for the people involved and everyone is of legal age and no one is being abused then they can do whatever they want. It is no different then a man cheating on his wife with a dozen people--the law does nothing about that so they have no right to interfere with how many wives a guy has (as long as he can financially care for all of them and the children he may have like another other husband). The problem is, as in any section of society, there are extremest. There are some sects that control every aspect of the lives of their congregations. They marry dozens of women and young girls but don't care for any of them. They marry girls as young as 12 and marry within the families to keep them "pure". I watched one show where they showed the huge mansion the leader of this sect lived in and then the shack that one of his wives and 5 of his children lived in. They still obeyed his "laws" and the mother was not allowed to work and lived off of his little allowance he gave her. The house was nothing more then a 2 room shack and the kids lived in abject poverty. That is the extreme people hear about and they think all polygamists are like that and I doubt they all are.

if you have srongly sexuality,your wife could not fit with you.what will you do?

personally, i wouldnt wanna have multiple husbands..they would be just too much of a problem :0 but on the other hand i really feel for those ladies trapped in those situations.when u find out that your husband is cheating on you, it really hurts..but to see him do it everynight knowing that u cant do a thing about it is probably a worse feeling..

ladies what do you think? can't men respond in here? ^^ well, we have lots of mormons here in the country.. wherever you go, you'll see them in pairs wearing white long sleeves and ties and with knapsack bags.. you'll think they speak english? yah, they do, but they also speak in our native tongue.. its shocking that you speak english to them ands they'll answer us in our language..!lol! but i never heard about that having more than one wife thing.. maybe, just like the Moslems..^^

The Mormons only had two wives or more during the first 50 years of their religion. Towards the end of the 1800's... The United States passed a law against polygamie... and the Mormons abide by that law.

Just expressing my feelings although it wasn't sticking to your topic at all :p.

I am a guy, but here's my point of view on this, because you are wrong, mormons are not people with multiple wives. That's polygamy, Mormons are different. And don't try to tell me otherwise. I have a friend In real life, he is a mormon. Yes there are Mormons that practice polygamy, but realize that not all do. IN FACT! My teacher was talking about Martin Luther King Jr. yesterday, and said how it is ignorant of people to assume that he only fought for black rights. But he fought for everyones rights, He fought for everyones Civil Rights, but he said he fought for poor white men, poor black men, and even catholics, even Christians, and even Mormons, and those people have multiple wives. And my friend spoke up and said "That is polygamy." And then my teacher had this audacity to say that my friend was wrong, even though that was HIS RELIGION. And for one, you aren't supposed to speak of religion in a Public School system for this reason, so you don't offend students of a certain religion. As for the teacher, he tried to change the subject saying that it wasn't a debate, although he brought it upon himself.

First of all. I know this has been posted before, but Mormons do not practice Polygamy any more. There is a religion called FLDS that does still practice but isnt any part of the Mormon Church. I am a Mormon and I have one Hubby who has one wife. Though I would never actualy let my hubby take on a new wife, there are benifits. With that said. I think that living the polygamist life style could be easier. If you wanted a big family, which I think was the purpose of polygamy, then one man could have many pregnant wives at once. We could all split the work. I could cook and take care of the kids, My sister wifes could go to work and bring in the money, do all the shopping or what ever they are the best at. We all have things that we are better at on life and I think that if there were 3 of me I could get a lot more done. I am to jealous of a person to actualy live it but I could see the benifits in it. Am I the oly person who thinks that it would be easier to have more than one of me around?

i think its horrible and completely crazy,i dont know how the women can be happy with this or justify it to their children.I dont think people like that are stable.

It's such a repulsive aspect of that religion, you don't go around collecting people for a certain set of characteristics and build the perfect spouse...they must have needed to re-populate their religion at some point, but yeah, it's patriarchal to the nth!! I think the women are so gullible and let themselves be walked all over, this time men are wise in their jelousies, they won't let that happen to themselves.

Those are not mainstream Mormons, they are from a fundamentalit off-shoot of the Mormons called the Fundamentalist church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. People who don't know enough about Main stream Mormons will often get those two groups moxed up. The mainstream Mormon church abolished Polygamy in 1897.

i think its an excuse for them to cheat. when you get married to someone, you marry that person for them, faults and all. and if you cant accept a person for who they are without wanting another person around to make up for what the first one lacks, why get married at all? (im not saying YOU as in YOU, missy12, just for whoever)

this is very bad think.the men have many wife or women have many husband means,the both of it very bad one.because this type matter is sepial the culcure and to spride the lot of disease also.this all are in 5min happines.so pepole are know what is happiness and what is dangerous.

Muslims can have multiple wives as well. A man I knew was raised in a family like that and basically the older wife almost mothers the younger one. It was pretty interesting. I guess it was a hapy situation.