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Ack! I don't think that math quite works out the way you think it does, Slumber. Assuming a roughly 50% sex divide, "1% of the women" is 0.5% of the population.
1) I did a search for how many practicing polygamists there were in America and came up with 50,000 as the top result.
2) I divided that by the us population (approx 330 million) and got 1.5%
3) I assume that there are more practicing female polygamists than male and arbitrarily assign a 2:1 ratio, giving men the .5 and women the 1.
4) I ignored all data that would make the meme complicated, including verbiage that would make it at all accurate
EDIT
@Shibboleth : actually I'd like to know what a better way to say it would be. I've already launched the meme, but I can always send out a different model later.
I think if Polygyny was an option for him he might of made a good husband to multiple women. He had what I think a pragmatic veiw of marriage. Lancret was single for much of his life; however in 1741 he married the 18-year-old grandchild of Boursault, author of Aesop at Court. Lancret was induced to marry her after finding her and her dying mother living in poverty in an attic room and hearing that the daughter was soon to be compelled to enter a convent.