PolyPride
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This is mainly about those who are against polygamy because of males outnumbering females according to global population stats.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the world population is 6,852,472,823 as of 2010. There's also around 50 million more males than females. This means that there would not be enough women for every man if every man wanted a woman to be with. If this is the case, wouldn't it make it worse for males to find women to be with if some of the guys who do find women are taking 2 or more at a time?
Source for the pop. stats:
http://sasweb.ssd.census.gov/idb/worldpopinfo.html click 'submit' button to bring up the stats page.
Responses that I've given to this in the past...
1. There are millions of undocumented women (esp. in 3rd world countries) who are kidnapped and sold off into human/sex trafficking. They're undocumented in population stats because their captors keep them hidden for obvious reasons.
2. Polyandry, one form of polygamy, would open the door for the surplus of men to find women, since they are not limited to just 'single' women, but also women who are already married. Monogamy would not work here at all. I'd even go as far as saying that a combination of polyandry and polygyny and even polygynandry would do better at making it possible for everybody have a mate than monogamy ever could.
3. What about choice and love? I mean what if no woman wants any of the surplus of single men that may be left single if polygamy were allowed. Are we to force women from being with men they love just so we can get them to be with men that they may not want or love or should or the atlernative is to stay single?
4. In countries or civilizations in history where polygamy have been practiced, only a small percentage of the population practiced polygamy. Most of the places where polygamy was allowed still had monogamy as the predominant form of relationship so most would not engage in polygamy.
5. It's unreasonable to expect that there would ever be enough men for women and vice-versa unless you're able to keep the population between the genders equal and desirable, all the time. That of course is not practical.
I hope my responses are okay to show that even if there are more men than women, that doesn't mean that polygamy should not be allowed still. Are there any other responses to this issue? If so, please share!
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the world population is 6,852,472,823 as of 2010. There's also around 50 million more males than females. This means that there would not be enough women for every man if every man wanted a woman to be with. If this is the case, wouldn't it make it worse for males to find women to be with if some of the guys who do find women are taking 2 or more at a time?
Source for the pop. stats:
http://sasweb.ssd.census.gov/idb/worldpopinfo.html click 'submit' button to bring up the stats page.
Responses that I've given to this in the past...
1. There are millions of undocumented women (esp. in 3rd world countries) who are kidnapped and sold off into human/sex trafficking. They're undocumented in population stats because their captors keep them hidden for obvious reasons.
2. Polyandry, one form of polygamy, would open the door for the surplus of men to find women, since they are not limited to just 'single' women, but also women who are already married. Monogamy would not work here at all. I'd even go as far as saying that a combination of polyandry and polygyny and even polygynandry would do better at making it possible for everybody have a mate than monogamy ever could.
3. What about choice and love? I mean what if no woman wants any of the surplus of single men that may be left single if polygamy were allowed. Are we to force women from being with men they love just so we can get them to be with men that they may not want or love or should or the atlernative is to stay single?
4. In countries or civilizations in history where polygamy have been practiced, only a small percentage of the population practiced polygamy. Most of the places where polygamy was allowed still had monogamy as the predominant form of relationship so most would not engage in polygamy.
5. It's unreasonable to expect that there would ever be enough men for women and vice-versa unless you're able to keep the population between the genders equal and desirable, all the time. That of course is not practical.
I hope my responses are okay to show that even if there are more men than women, that doesn't mean that polygamy should not be allowed still. Are there any other responses to this issue? If so, please share!
