Toks2008:


Please address those questions and not the op.

Toks2008:


As long as your likes don't understand that there is a thin line between intellectual contribution and baseless sarcastic attacks then you will continue to have that problem.

Only a fool gets angry if another disagrees with his or her stands but when it boils down to insults and childish attacks on the personality of the writer which you especially are fond of and i hope you have changed...As long as posters stick to the subject matter and avoid attacking the writer for stating his or her opinion then there will be no reason for bickering.

Check the original response of the person you quoted and you will not agree less with me.. It is utterly childish, unintelligent and a clear sign of intellectual stuntedness to use vulgar words on another just because such expresses his or her opinion.

ItsQuinn:
But I didn't insult you did I? My comment was just simple ....for the love of God, why didn't you just ignore

Toks2008:


Contrary to what many people believe,I'm not a misogynist but a realist who sees things the way they are and not the WaY they ought to be.

I always wonder when many guys say a woman's word hould be ignored because they are naturally incoherent but I disagree...rather I believe we must see their words as relevant and important enough not to ignore.

By the way has lalasticlala really take time to read this piece? I believe it makes good sense.

Toks2008:


Please address those questions and not the op.

ItsQuinn:
Please I didn't get you when you said "those questions"

Toks2008:
Disclaimer: Polygamy is not for everyone considering the stress and complexity not forgetting the economy tipsy turvy.This article is aimed at beaming an eagle's eyes on polygamy at large in relation to the idiosyncrasies of people about it and not intended to encourage anyone to adopt it neither does it represent the lifestyle of the writer.

I implore every reader of this article to analyze each question objectively without any form of bias so that we can have a no holds Barr approach to this age long phenomenon which has caused many marital anomalies all around the world...So lets take a candid look .

1.Could Polygamy be the answer to the prayers of a sect of single ladies.
It is believed that there are some set of ladies who have a better chance with married men?

The widowed who is in her late 30s or 40s with children,the divorced woman who is in her late 30s with children and the never married lady in her late 30s or 40s. While some ladies in this categories are fortunate to marry a fresh guy polygamy seem to be a better choice for most of the ladies rather than single never married guys. The fact is that even you reading this who believes that your marriage is very ok might just fall into the first 2 categories tomorrow..this is not a curse but a fact of life and until then,this point may not make sense to you...Pray you don't experience it.

2.Why do most women prefer polygamy in disguised form.
Have you ever wondered why many ladies prefer their husbands to keep mistresses but frown against same marrying another wife? yes i have asked many ladies that given only two options which would they prefer and they gladly chose the former and i begin to ask myself what difference does it make? Some ladies will tell you to keep your wife while they enjoy the benefits of being a mistress to you and i tend to ask who is fooling who?

3.Could Polygamy relieve stress of a married woman?.
This is one truth many of us can't shy away from. There are some marriages where the lady can't just keep up with sexual demands from the man and this has caused serious issues in the marriage and it usually gets to the point where the wife gives the man the go ahead to get another wife because she can not come and go and die .

4.Is it possible that Polygamy might encourage financial independence in many ladies?.
This point needs to be understood especially in this part of the world.

Do you know that most ladies do not mind if a rich hubby marries another woman? As long as he is doing his duty and she is still getting the goodies she may find it hard to leave the marriage but this is not the case for a struggling guy who will likely be reminded that she is only patching up with him.

Maybe polygamy will make the woman understand that her hubby no matter how poor he may be, might see another financially stable lady who does not need the man's money but only wants a man in her life and this will make every lady sit tight and become financially independent to avoid being a liability to the man...because MEN HATE LIABILITIES.

5.Why are Women willing participants in polygamous act?.
Can a man commit adultery with himself or become a polygamous man without the corroboration of a lady? In-fact many single ladies have eyes only for married men and i kept wondering why these same ladies will clamor for monogamy when the same ladies will gladly date a married man and even desire to be his Mrs....So why the hypocrisy of monogamy when it has become a norm for single ladies to snatch or share a married man.

6.Could Polygamy reduce the number of unmarried ladies.
I don't need to explain this much. It is no longer news that many ladies in their ripe ages are still single and searching but unfortunately the young men who should marry them are either still struggling or confused about what they want yet there are many married men matured enough to adequately marry two or more wives. It is believed that if Polygamy is embraced, many single ladies will find succor in the hands of some responsible married men who are capable enough to meet the emotional and maybe the financial needs of two or more ladies.

7.Could Polygamy bring about more responsive and responsible young unmarried men.
Many young guys at marriageable ages are just too nonchalant to settle down with a lady and most of them will use the economy as an excuse but if Polygamy is embraced by us,the beautiful young ladies will be taken as wives by already married men thereby forcing the single guys to brace up to settle down fast with the woman in their lives to avoid such being married off to a married man..

8.Can Polygamy reduce wife battering and mortality.
Believe it or not, for every 10 cases of a wife getting beaten or killed by her hubby,you can be certain that 8 can be linked to adultery. The question is;why should a lady go through pains because she found out that her hubby is having an extra marital affair? is her life not more important than that? however,maybe if polygamy is accepted all over the world, no woman will bother her head about a man being faithful to her which will ultimately bring about serenity into the life of the woman....This may sound ridiculous but think about it.

9.Why is polygamy acceptable in certain situations.
We have another hypocrisy when it comes to polygamy. In some cases where a lady can not bear a child for her hubby due to serious complications,she tends to give a go ahead for the man to take another wife and in the case where a lady knows she just can't be available due to many factors she gives a nod to a second wife but in a normal situation she will threaten fire should the man think about such move.

10.Can Polygamy reduce the incidence of lesbianism and zoophilism.
Ask any lesbian or zoophile you see why she is one and you can be sure to hear her tell you about a failed marriage or a failed relationship as a result of a cheating hubby or fiance. Most lesbians are in the act due to heart breaks from men but if every lady has it in their mind that polygamy is a norm, they will be ready to be in any affair with the mindset that the man may likely have another lady which will create an emotional readiness for such happening.

11.Does the Quran and bible outrightly condemn polygamy.
While our married Muslim sisters are at peace with their husbands irrespective of the number of women he marries, our Christian sisters are always quick to use the bible to counter the act of polygamy but while the bible does not clearly give a nod to polygamy,some people believed that there was no where in the bible that polygamy was condemned in clear terms and while many Bible scholars use human philosophy as regards the fact that GOD created only one woman for Adam,there is a documented evidence that those strongly loved by GOD were polygamists.

12.Is there any difference between Philandering and polygamy.
While many people believe that these two are different,i believe they are the same because in most cases, a mistress bears the man's children and gets all the attention the wife gets if not more so why fool yourself thinking you are married to one lady when in-fact your mistress is as good as your wife even if they don't stay under same roof.


13.Could the acceptance of polygamy reduce the rate of divorce cases.
Maybe If the world embraces polygamy, there will be a drastic reduction of women filing for divorce due to sexual unfaithfulness from the man as they will know before going into marriage with the man that there is a bigger possibility of him getting married to two or more wives.


This is not a one sided article but a vivid view on polygamy from a critical angle and i would be glad to read a counter view to this.

Hope this makes sense.

ItsQuinn:
Wow... I really sat down to read your write up and I must say that I'm finding it hard to disagree with every point you made....this really made sense

ActOfWar:
What an insightful post, sir. They are saying polygamy leads to over population. I don't think I agree with that.
Firstly: practising polygamy doesn't always birth over population
Secondly: even if it does in their opinion, it shouldnt be the reason for not accepting polygamy and painting polygamy black, because there is a difference in knowing something to be good but can't be used due to some reasonable facts and something to bebad right from the start. What do you think Toks2008






Daretodiffer/dare2differ/doveda
#smilestoher
What do you think bout this post?

You know it WOULD be beneficial if women could marry more than 1 man.
They have the more earning power 2 support a family in this our unequal world.
And more earned is more spent so the economy is improved aswell.
.....
Let us considet POLYANDRY as it is the more beneficial

Richiy:
Toks2008,

I just have one question for you

Where you raised in a polygamous family?

The same way you took your time to research how polygamy will make life better for men and women, also research about how life is in a polygamous home.

And to wrap it up, take your time and read this somewhat realistic Nigerian novel "The secret lives of Baba Segi's wives"

Toks2008:


Lalasticlala definitely must be very intelligent for Seun to make him a mod.

The unfortunate twist is that many Nigerians are so enmeshed in ignorance and they have created a comfort zone around it.

Lack of intellectual objectivity has become the bane of today' generation and you just elicited that attribute.

If you fail to look outside the box, you will forever remain a captive in your own delusion.

Are you better than the beautiful educated Muslim sisters who have no issues with polygamy?

Apparently you are below average in your reasoning faculty else you would have read the disclaimer and also look at the point raised without bias and only then will you be able to see the mindset of the writer as well as the reason to take a deep look into the subject matter.

Toks2008:


naijaboy did not read the post and i can bet that with anything..if he did he won't make such comments..he probably read the previous topic without going through the writeup and hastily made comments but i know he will deny not reading the write up.

Furthermore, without promoting polygamy please who says polygamy must lead to many children?

A guy may decide to marry two wives and have just 1 child with each one. The point remains that i am not here to preach polygamy but only pointing out hard facts about it..cc: lalasticlala take a look at this,read it very well and make your decision.

A world where a lady can date a married man but claims to hate polygamy.

A world where a lady will leave her husband due to adultery just to end up as a second wife to another.

A world where a lady discourages polygamy just for her to end up as a mistress or a second wife to another married man if by fate she loses her husband.

Shymm3xx:
Lol. This is why this forum is the toilet of the internet. Especially with the type of topics jobless kids who neither have full understanding/experience of the subject-matter and English words they dabble into and use.

I believe in ya mind you think you wrote something cerebral, after writing over 500 words of pure tosh, with no correlation whatsoever with the topic. This is basically an IQ reducing ramblings of an illiterate kid.

1). I believe you don't know the meaning of "idiosyncrasy" cos after perusing through the junk illiterate-write, I didn't see any idiosyncrasy there.

2). You can't really argue for "hypocrisy" when the points you argued against (albeit all over the place in your argument) are simplistic things you made up in ya head and not what the real proponents of polygamy use as posturing for engaging in the lifestyle.

Honestly, you and the idiotic mod who pushed this trash to the FP deserve to be thoroughly flogged for this rubbish. A lot of you don't even read what you write, especially the utter ridiculousness in ya thought process, yet you always think you've the answers to everything.

ItsQuinn:
I disagree with the Op because the world is way too overpopulated for polygamous marriage, we should be focusing on reducing the population, not increasing it

fairlyusedpant:
That was what chief okafor did when he read one article like this in his village, he told himself that he must marry 10 wives, that polygamy is the best, he married ada, she gave birth to 5 children for him, he later married nkechi, she gave birth to 12 children, he told himself that he is tired of local girls, he wants to marry from all tribes, so he went to sokoto to marry aisha and rasheedat, making it 4 wives, and he went to ondo state to marry bukola, funmie and titilayo making it 7 wives, he still went ahead to calabar to marry imoh, ekatte and caro, making it 10 wives and his total children where 75 children, xo every year he use to do census for his family members to be very sure that they are complete, xo on his faithful day, he fell sick and was about to die, then he remembered that the only inheritance he has is the trouser he is wearing and the singlet, xo he called all his children and told them that'' my children , you know that my money has finished and it is only this trouser and singlet i have for you people for inheritance, so i would give... '' before he could complete his statement, he received one heavy slap from no where

well my brothers and sisters, this was the last i heard of him, chief okafor might be in heaven now with bandages and a broken hand, i just can't say, but all is well sha

Urukpe:


If over population is ur reason against polygamous, that means ur idea is on shaky ground.

what happen to d idea that to every woman there is a man. So u are telling ur fellow sisters that some of them should not marry. That they should remain single.

Some single guys have more children than polygamous family man. polygamous has nothing to do with over population. Population can only be reduce when govt restrict the number of children a woman can have

Toks2008:


Since you are too lazy to read before commenting let me come down to your understanding with just one of the points listed.

Do you know that many young guys have been practising polygamy long before marriage?

How many ladies have you wooed on nairaland not mentioning offline?

How many girlfriends do you have presently?

People like you who come online to yapp ends up being a big polygamous guy.

Pastors and the bible preaches about fornication yet people still indulge in it.

Irrespective of your age, you need to grow up and open your eyes to the facts I wrote.

AZeD1:

I owe you one bottle of your favorite drink.

Shymm3xx:


I believe in ya mind you think you wrote something cerebral, after writing over 500 words of pure tosh, with no correlation whatsoever with the topic. This is basically an IQ reducing ramblings of an illiterate kid.

1).I believe you don't know the meaning of "idiosyncrasy" c[/b]os after perusing through the junk illiterate-write, I didn't see any idiosyncrasy there.

There's nothing Irresponsible or desperate. It's the 21st century, Feminism has given women the right to work hard and act like men.


Afterall equal rights.

Shymm3xx:



The only thing partially sensible in the write-up is the "number of unmarried ladies"

AZeD1:

There's no sensible thing in the write up, not even the number of unmarried women excuse.
The question is what if the population of men were higher, would polyandry be the solution? (China has this problem)If he says yes, how do you marry that with the point were he says polygamy would help relieve Women of stress?
On the point of relieving women of stress, research shows there are fewer sexually satisfied women, so how does polygamy solve this?

The thread is a display of ignorance and anybody with an iota of sense would poke so many holes in the write up, a basket would be better for fetching water.

Toks2008:


Olodo..check it up.. apparently you are the ignorant one.Calling me a kid is very hilarious..oga abeg how old are you?

Its even more pathetic that you only trolled without making sense..

Shymm3xx:


Lol. You're stark illiterate.

The fact that you wrote "polygamy" and went on a nutjob rambling about "polygyny" is enough to show that you're an unlettered goblin and you don't even know what the hell you're talking about.

Follow these three steps:

1). Go to ya dictionary and check the meanings of "hypocrisy" and "idiosyncrasy".

2). Read the three main reasons for polygyny:

- Economic reasons due to patriarchy and poverty levels of societies where polygyny is prevalent.

- Shortage of men due death (wars and other things in those societies).

- Breeding with men with better genes.

3). Now, read through ya vacuous ramblings lettered 1-13 and tell me if there's any correlation whatsoever with those two words and reasons I posited.

The joke is on you, you puerile illiterate kid. You write like a 12-year old...and I doubt you're older than 15. Fix up, little boy.

I'm out...don't reduce my IQ.

AZeD1:

There's no sensible thing in the write up, not even the number of unmarried women excuse.
The question is what if the population of men were higher, would polyandry be the solution? (China has this problem)If he says yes, how do you marry that with the point were he says polygamy would help relieve Women of stress?
On the point of relieving women of stress, research shows there are fewer sexually satisfied women, so how does polygamy solve this?

The thread is a display of ignorance and anybody with an iota of sense would poke so many holes in the write up, a basket would be better for fetching water.