I'd like to have more than one wife, it would keep things interesting.

The answer to that question is that most Polygamist societies either are two class societies or they become two class societies eventually.

Generally speaking in a society there is roughly the same amount of women as their are men. So a society could maintain itself well enough, through monogamy. One wife one husband. It works out mathematically and everyone is happy.

The only thing is most societies did not do that. Most societies in history allowed more than one wife, though often there may have been a lot of rules about it.

Let us say that one third of the men marry all of the women. Then what do all the other men do?

You have two thirds of the men who are milling about. And then a war starts. Suppose that this war is against strict monogamists (a foreign nation). Who is going to fight harder, the monogamists or the polygamists?

Remember the two third men who are milling about? Do they look to you to be all motivated, to fight for the one third with the wives to you?

Once the fighting begins the monogamist are organized and are a band of the brothers and for most part everyone loves each other, where as the polygamists hate each, at least the two third hate the one third.

So the monogamists win in battle, they institute their laws and there language, and monogamy becomes the law for everyone, because eventually the monogamist take over everyone. The entire world becomes monogamist eventually.

This actually happened. First the monogamist Greeks, then the monogamist Romans, took over the world of Mesopotamia. Whenever the other countries fought against them the Greeks and then later the Romans, were far superior in actual combat. Band of brothers verses people that were jealous and envious and hated each other.

It really is as simple as that. Call it societal Darwinism. The Greco-Roman society is where our laws about marriage primarily come from. All the countries of Europe continued the Greco-Roman tradition of monogamy.

Europe in turn became the preeminent power in the world, thanks in no small part to the policy of monogamy, while at the same time as this was happening, the rest of the world was mostly polygamist.

Monogamy-ism helps social cohesion leading to greater cooperation among the soldier class, and also greater economic prosperity as well (the economic class is likewise more cooperative with each other).

In a nutshell that is why our laws and traditions are the way that they are.

The answer to that question is that most Polygamist societies either are two class societies or they become two class societies eventually.

Generally speaking in a society there is roughly the same amount of women as their are men. So a society could maintain itself well enough, through monogamy. One wife one husband. It works out mathematically and everyone is happy.

The only thing is most societies did not do that. Most societies in history allowed more than one wife, though often there may have been a lot of rules about it.

Let us say that one third of the men marry all of the women. Then what do all the other men do?

You have two thirds of the men who are milling about. And then a war starts. Suppose that this war is against strict monogamists (a foreign nation). Who is going to fight harder, the monogamists or the polygamists?

Remember the two third men who are milling about? Do they look to you to be all motivated, to fight for the one third with the wives to you?

Once the fighting begins the monogamist are organized and are a band of the brothers and for most part everyone loves each other, where as the polygamists hate each, at least the two third hate the one third.

So the monogamists win in battle, they institute their laws and there language, and monogamy becomes the law for everyone, because eventually the monogamist take over everyone. The entire world becomes monogamist eventually.

This actually happened. First the monogamist Greeks, then the monogamist Romans, took over the world of Mesopotamia. Whenever the other countries fought against them the Greeks and then later the Romans, were far superior in actual combat. Band of brothers verses people that were jealous and envious and hated each other.

It really is as simple as that. Call it societal Darwinism. The Greco-Roman society is where our laws about marriage primarily come from. All the countries of Europe continued the Greco-Roman tradition of monogamy.

Europe in turn became the preeminent power in the world, thanks in no small part to the policy of monogamy, while at the same time as this was happening, the rest of the world was mostly polygamist.

Monogamy-ism helps social cohesion leading to greater cooperation among the soldier class, and also greater economic prosperity as well (the economic class is likewise more cooperative with each other).

In a nutshell that is why our laws and traditions are the way that they are.

Gee one minute the men are complaining about how much they hate women and the next minute they are complaining because they can't get enough