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To: c.hinton who wrote (239870)	8/24/2007 1:51:49 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 281500

It makes sense. I think the fear of other men having multiple wives must be close to the fear of castration, or fear of homosexuality. Certainly, speaking only for myself, if I were a young man and doubted my chances of ever being in an intimate relationship with a woman, it would be awful. However, it's not a fear I share at my age and experience. I don't see plural marriages as being common enough to justify that fear and I don't see the complaints by women who've participated in plural marriages rising above the number or level of complaints levied by women in monogamous marriages. Its an alternative lifestyle that isn't a sin, in and of itself, in fact most participants describe the lifestyle as ultra-decent. I'm for leaving them alone, unless or until there is a substantial participant's complaint and then deal with those complaints on a case by case basis.