When the courts prosecute ladies couples and dudes, it’s our mores!
Here is a story about a woman who is being charged for convincing her sister to be a fellow wife to her husband. OK, all the married men with attractive sisters in law can take a moment of dulcet contemplation. Done? Good.
There appears a certain obsession in our midst with the bedroom habits of other people. Somehow, society (whatever that animal might be) feels the need to impose some kind of a collective set of behavior on the population at large. It is called morality. There is a certain necessity for standards of behavior for the creation of an environment where people can function effectively – knowing what to expect and what is expected of them. At this juncture of our collective narrative, Anno Domini 2001, we have been working fairly hard to fashion society and societal norms in such a way as to accommodate the Individual, that concrete chunk of walking protoplasm, rather than that abstract floating abstraction called society. The trick is to allow the Individual to do whatever it is that Individuals do without precluding other individuals from doing the same –which can certainly get tricky.
Now, we are at a stage when “non-standard,” “non-traditional” cohabitation is accepted (partners can get medical benefits) and often protected by law – there is a state of two were people of the same sex can marry. And who said that humanity is not developing any longer? So why is all the brouhaha about bigamy and polygamy? It’s an issue if one of the “family” members is not of adult age – serious problem as a matter of fact. But if everyone is a consenting adult? Actually, in this particular case the young sister was 16 years old, so the age thing may have come into play. The sense I am getting, though, is that there is an issue with marriages with more than two people involved. Just check the Bible – every self-respecting patriarch and king and quite a few wives…
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