[extropy-chat] destroying gardens?

[spike]

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> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-
> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Mike Lorrey
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] destroying gardens?
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> China, for example, with its one-child policy, now has a generation
> that is heavily dominated by a high percentage of males. The effect of
> this on chinese society will create stresses that are similar to the
> artificially created wife shortage in the muslim world that is created
> by the tribal control of resources and the quranic allowance of four
> wives for those who can afford them...
> 
> Mike Lorrey


This is something that has puzzled me.  Wars have decimated
male populations since forever, and some societies have
accepted men having multiple wives.  But in a few cases
there are societies with excess males, such as in the old
American west, the Alaskan frontier and China today.  But I 
know of no society that has accepted a woman having two or more 
husbands.  Has there ever been such a thing?  Should we count 
societies that have legal of prostitution as being a kind
of de-facto polyandrogamy?

spike