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
In resourced-based polygyny, males compete for territories with the best resources, and then mate with females that enter the territory, drawn to its resource richness.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
That polygyny is bad for women is not necessarily intuitive.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2012
In fact, in such a social state, polygyny can only constitute an exception.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
