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Our society practices a different type of Polygamy. We seem to prefer to have one wife at a time, but change them out ever few years, and I see it in both sexes. Sequential polygamy is the norm in the US with 50% divorce rates.
The only opposition I have to polygamy relates to legal problems.
If a man is allowed to have more than one wife, his wife should be allowed to have more than one husband, right? And each of those husbands could in theory have more than one wife which could have more than one husband and so on.
I doubt this would happen very often, but for polygamy to be applied fairly, it would have to work both ways which could cause a legal morass in cases of divorce or death of a spouse.
If there was a logical way of dealing this, my objections to polygamy would cease.