Polygamy: the key to a long life?

I would only do this if one or more of the relationships were platonic; although, this can be as difficult as having multiple sexual partners in our culture.
Furthermore, I think that western normativity influences men into negative relationships and hinders their ability to communicate emotionally. It's not a matter of sleeping with more then one person but having healthy reciprocal relationships. If exclusive polygamist relationships want to have multi-partner sexual relations to further this reciprocation, then let them at it. But, I'm disinclined to promote such relationships.

Here's an interesting article you might enjoy. It's more about being polyamorous, but it still hits some good points.

http://www.babble.com/content/articles/features/personalessays/axel-lute/and-bab...

Personally, I would love to have a set-up like that.

read it sucka

polygamists living longer may be a byproduct of the wives not getting totally sick of their dumb-ass husbands because they're spending an equal amount of time getting on some other woman's nerves!)

Polygamy is actually the most preferred type of marriage world-wide, monogamy is only the most common because polygamy is too expensive for most men...

more than one wife? Imagine the bitching you'll get when you forget to take the garbage out?

Men in todays society dont need longer lives, they need to be taught that the universe does not revolve around them. Women deserve more respect than to have to share a horny, greedy, and unfaithful husband. Most of these cases occur in sects of society with alarming male dominance paired with religious fanaticism. Not a good combination.

With everything going on in the world you would think that the University of Sheffield would have better, more important research topics to spend their money on.

Why would I want to deal with two women when I can barely keep up with my wife now? Two seems like so much more work. no thanks

the average lifespan in the US is 77 years for men (or thereabouts it might be decreasing at the moment). why do we need to live any longer, past that your in the old, decrepit senile stage. screw that

I don't have a problem with changing partners but it seems like, if you're committed to someone, you focus on them or you break up. simple as that.

monogamy, stupid

polygamy, stupid

george clooney, awesome

I am sure those are the only determining factors. Maybe with more than one wife, you can be an ass and get away with it for a longer time? I don't get it. Most of us only last a couple of minutes while women can go on and on...shouldn't it be the other way around?? One woman, six husbands. That way, by the time you're ready to go again, your number is just rolling around anyway..LOL

when i first got on myspace , i went through every single country in the world - every one - and sent friend requests to the 2 hottest chics in each one ( if certain criteria were met - if there were only 1 girl from the country on myspace , i'd send her one anyhow , however she looked ) - this took a couple of weeks ( and shitloads of beer ) . i had hundreds of hot chics . it was a project done for a bet . i haven't met a single one of them . but i still look at my virtual harem as a source of pride . in an ideal world we'd all be together .

lol crap man, i need to find meself just one wife first... and i disagree i think it can shorten your life... consider all that nagging "rah rah rah new gucci handbag rah rah rah luxuary nail file" it could drive a man nuts, and what if they started a fight with each other? i suposse you could charge pay per view boxing. lol crap man i need two wives man... sign me up doc...

here's to your health

It is obvious from the Sheffield students theory that none of them are or have been married.

To suggest two wifes is absolutley crazy I cannot imagine the difficulty trying to please two women when they are both selecting the clothes to wear, selecting new shoes, "dose this lipstick look right" or "is my hair ok at the back" or " have you had a shave" or " turn that football off I want to watch Oprah" or " you are getting fat"

The list is endless and I am shuddering at the thought of TWO nagging wifes one is more than enough at times.

Still, I love mine and more important she loves me

Well done to them - It's hard enough to find just one decent one!

Well i heard having one is hard having 2 is harder and the third is easy and the fourth is easiest.

GRAPE APE!

PS to all you Christians out there, Jesus said there ain't going to be any marriage in Heaven, that is why the contract reads "until death do you part." And that is exactly what marriage is, a contract.

People should be allowed to make any contract they want with another human being so long as it is mutually consensual.

Long Life? Name me a civilization, if one exists today, that has survived based on this morality? It may extend the life of the individual, but the life span of society will decay. But hey, today, we live in a world where we look after number one, when individual rights supercede the greater good. We have made ourselves little-Gods, and for this reason Lucifer was cast down like a bolt of lightening.

I think they should make all kinship family ties legal, two husbands with two wives, one husband with three wives, one wife with three husbands, or a whole tribe of people if that is what they want.

If families want to become corporations with the adult members as the board of directors and all members, including the children, stockholders, then they should be legal too.

I say let families be what they want and need to be. What is blood anyway when it comes to bonding and family? Blood relatives can more easily stab you in the back and steal from you as a stranger can, because with family you aren't expecting it to happen, whereas with a stranger, there is always that idea in the back, maybe way back of your mind that this stranger could mean me harm.

Enough with the binary, black and white, man and woman, left and right, good and evil thinking. Life is a rainbow of colors and shades of gray.

please don't give the Mormons more ideas.....many still believe that polygamy should be legal again.

They should reverse this for China where women have more than one husband....considering....

And the true question is are they happy? Because if they are not they are just living a long sad life and how is that better?

What about polyandry or polyamory? The same should be true of them as well.

There should be no reason for there to be any potential difference if you are talking about multiple wives, multiple husbands or both.

It's worth a try!

As William James wrote after a revelatory dream:

Hogamus, higamous Man is polygamous
Higamus, hogamous Woman monogamous.

...maybe he was on to something....

I reckon that competition between males to get more than one wife - seeing that the proportion of males to females is close to 50/50 - might considerably shorten quite a few male lives.

It just seems a lot longer

variables indeed . the cardiovascular benefits of lots of sex are undeniable , but it doesn't matter if you have a few hundred wives if you're not hittin it regularly - like any workout .

Here's a theory: It's G-D'S punishment! A man with two wives will suffer even longer! It ain't natural. Get out whilst you still can!

my question is how are the wives doing

What about polyandry or polyamory?

And also aggreed, "Correlation does not equal causation."

I believe that the men lived longer but I would expect that the women would have shorter life spans. I know I would kill any ho who tried to get with my man.

If this is true, my ex will live forever.

"Correlation does not equal causation." agreed mypsychotic.

Cultures which practice polygamy probably practice other different lifestyle habits, eating healthier food, remaining more active. More research should and most likely will be done.

Maybe women would live longer if they had more than one husband.

Lets not get married and screw everyone with out any commitment that sounds like a whole lot of fun!!!

Wouldn't the competition with the other wife and oddness of the relationship add stress to the womans life, leading to a shorter life?
It seems a little odd to me.

Correlation does not equal causation. Just because men in countries that practice polygamy live longer doesn't mean that polygamy causes men to live longer. There are other variables that need to be considered.

Well this is interesting, After having one wife and now a
fiancee I can't see to many women going for that unless they are pre-brainwashed.

I saw a special on History Channel that said the First Emperor of China (dude that had the great wall built) believed in this too. He was on a mission to "live forever" and his health advisors told him having as many wives as possible was one of the ways of extending his life. Hah.

I'm sure it's got something to do with being able to take a break from each other for a while: the stresses caused by the pressure of having to concentrate on one person for your whole life must build up (so I've read).