polygyny

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While polygyny - the marriage of a man to several women - is allowed in South Africa, such relationships are usually registered as customary marriages and are not celebrated in church.

From BBC • May 3, 2025

Adult relationships vary in form across societies and include not only the type most common around the world today — heterosexual monogamy — but also same-sex marriage, nonmarital unions, polyamory, polygyny and polyandry.

From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2022

A third type of polygyny is a lek system.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

That polygyny is bad for women is not necessarily intuitive.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2012

Apart from this the biological masculine traditions point to polygyny much more than the feminine traditions point to polyandry.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock