Polygamy is the practice of marrying multiple spouses. When a man is married to more than one wife at the same time, sociologists call this polygyny.
Polygyny is the more obvious and well-known phenomenon, but the evidence is quite clear that people practice polyandry, too; it’s just that women are more subtle about it!
Polygyny is when a male maintains a “harem” of wives with whom he mates and typically produces children.
Polyandry on the other hand, is the mirror image of polygyny but with a woman maintaining a harem of males.
In this episode, the ladies look further into the concept of polygamy and monogamy.
They had different views and we’d like to know your thoughts about these concepts
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