Having an affair or open relationship is one thing, but cohabiting with more than one partner at a time is definitely unusual. One of my schoolfriends' parents were in a sort of 'throuple' - I found it very odd. I don't see how gay marriage between two partners means has anything to do with this pressure to accept polygamy which the OP seems to imagine exists.
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Personally I don't think I could cope with more than one partner. One chap around the house is plenty. In theory I don't have a problem with polygamy as long as it works both (all?) ways and everyone involved is freely consenting. How often that is true in societies where polygamy is the norm, I wouldn't like to guess.
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I think it was in an episode of Endeavour when one of the characters commented about 'free' love being the most expensive sort. Polygamous marriages are almost always one man, numerous women and generally in cultures where women are regarded as chattels. It's all fine in theory, if no one is being coerced, but I doubt that's often the case. Marriages between two people but that are not completely exclusive make more sense and are more common in a free society. Pre-Christian European cultures quite often featured very limited infidelity as an accepted necessity to deal with infertility in societies where incestuous marriage (to keep the money in the family) and consequent childlessness was a real problem. It was still accepted much later in the wealthiest families, such as the English royal family. Power balances would suggest that in those cases, it wasn't quite as consensual
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