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

A third type of polygyny is a lek system.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

That’s why some 16 million men today can trace their ancestry back to Genghis Khan, a tyrant who pushed polygyny to its physical limits.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2015

That polygyny is bad for women is not necessarily intuitive.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2012

We have seen that polygyny has a higher moral character among certain Indian tribes where matriarchism rules, and where the wife is mistress of the house and family.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste