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List of Famous Polygamist People (not FLDS or LDS)

As I have often said, there is no better boot camp for a guy than learning how to effectively navigate the PM/ Estrogen Sea of Life with more than one ship! Me thinks that one of the reasons that plural marriage is so common in the Old Testament has much to do with the promises made to Abraham,Israel's role in blessing the world,and running a plural family successfully as perfect leadership training for running a nation, but I digress.

Possibly adding to this list of famous plural folk is certainly not someone I would want as a poster child for the lifestyle, and that is Sigmund Freud himself. There is strong evidence to suggest that his legal wife, Martha Bernays, and her sister, Minna, who lived with them for more than 50 years, both looked upon Siggie as hubby. It is also theorized that Minna became pregnant with Sigmund's child and had an abortion, which he regretted. The New York Times article below is fairly extensive and contains several pictures, but I don't know how to pull 'em and post 'em, so you'll have to go to the link.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/world ... c=rss&_r=0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Bernays

Please understand, aficionados of Dr. Freud hotly contest this possibility of a de facto plural marriage, and claim it was a rumor started by a bitter Dr. Carl Jung, once Freud's protoge, then fierce rival. However, it bears scrutiny.
 
Behind every good man are two (or more) good women, lol!
 
I just found this forum post and am again very appreciative for the information available on BF. Contrary to the scare tactics used by those opposed to biblical marriage, there are obviously many happy and successful marriages involving a husband with more than one wife. Thanks for this article and if anyone gets time add to it, that would be great. Blessings
 
There's a Brazilian rapper called Mr. Catra (his real name is Wagner Domingues Costa), who lives with three women in Rio de Janeiro. The three of them say they are not jealous about each other and they agree with what Mr. Catra does. They have 36 children in all, being 32 biological ones and 4 adopted ones. He's already appeared more than once on TV talking about polygamy. He says he became Jewish after visiting the Western Wall in Israel. He defends what he calls "Solomonic Judaism". His official site is http://www.catra.com.br/site/ (in Portuguese). His page on Wikipedia is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Catra (it's outdaded).
 
There's a Brazilian rapper called Mr. Catra (his real name is Wagner Domingues Costa), who lives with three women in Rio de Janeiro. The three of them say they are not jealous about each other and they agree with what Mr. Catra does. They have 36 children in all, being 32 biological ones and 4 adopted ones. He's already appeared more than once on TV talking about polygamy. He says he became Jewish after visiting the Western Wall in Israel. He defends what he calls "Solomonic Judaism". His official site is http://www.catra.com.br/site/ (in Portuguese). His page on Wikipedia is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Catra (it's outdaded).

Thirty two biological children. I am in awe. This man must teach me.
 
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