Post: #1

And to all the Chinese and Arab men lacking a wife?

Better this than sexless omegas going on a rape/murder rampage


A young Indian woman has spoken out about being married to five husbands, all of whom are brothers.

Rajo Verma, 21, lives in one room with the siblings and they sleep on blankets on the floor.

The mother-of-one, who sleeps each night with a different brother, does not know which of her five related husbands is the father of her 18-month-old son.


Happy family: Five brothers (L-R) Sant Ram Verma, 28, Bajju Verma, 32, Gopal Verma, 26, Guddu Verma, 21, and Dinesh Verma, 19, with their shared wife Rajo Verma, 20, and their son Jay Verma
The set-up may seem peculiar, but it is tradition in the small village near Dehradun, Northern India, for women to also marry the brothers of their first husband.

She told the Sun: 'Initially it felt a bit awkward. 'But I don’t favour one over the other.'

Rajo and first husband Guddu wed in an arranged Hindu marriage four years ago.

Since then she has married Baiju, 32, Sant Ram, 28, Gopal, 26, and Dinesh, 19 - the latest in the line of husbands - who married her as soon as he turned 18.

'We all have sex with her but I’m not jealous,' first husband Guddu - who remains the only official spouse - said. 'We’re one big happy family.'

The practice of polyandry is believed to stem from the tale of Mahabharata, the ancient Indian epic.

The text, one of the cornerstones of Indian culture, sees Draupadi, daughter of the King of Pancha being married to five brothers.

It is not legal, but in its most common form - whereby women in polyandrous relationships marry more than one man from the same family - it is permitted.

It tends to be practised in male dominated villages, who still follow primitive rituals and customs. Brothers who refuse the union are often treated as outcasts.

In polyandrous families, the woman often cannot say which of her husbands fathered which children.

Recently, there have been instances of DNA testing, to solve inheritance disputes.

The ancient Hindu tradition of polyandry was once widely practiced in India, but is now only observed by a minority.

It sees a woman take more than one husband, typically in areas which are male dominated.

In fraternal polyandry the woman is expected to marry each of her original husband's brothers.

It is thought to have arisen from the popular Sanskrit epic of Mahabharatha, which sees Draupadi, daughter of the King of Pancha being married to five brothers.

The practice is also believed to be a way of keeping farming land in the family.

It is most commonly found near the Himalayas in the north of the country, as well as in the mountainous nation of Tibet.

While the advance of modernity has seen the archaic practice largely die out in most areas, the shortage of women in countries such as China and India has helped keep it alive as a solution to young men's difficulties in finding a wife.

Rajo said she knew she was expected to accept all of her husbands, as her own mother had also been married to three brothers.

She said they sleep together in turn, but that they do not have beds, just 'lots of blankets on the floor'.

She added: 'I get a lot more attention and love than most wives'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...mland.html

Post: #2

Seems like a recipe for disaster. It's hard to believe that the woman won't come to favor one of them over time and that the others won't get jealous.

That being said, if it works it works.

Post: #3

Imagine if this happened in the West.

5 times child support and alimony. You go girl! Get dem Gucci's b-a-l-l-i-n'.

Meanwhile, in India, 4 guys are weeded out of the genepool.

Post: #4

if you think about it, killing off all the daughters in these countries creates a more competitive environment, where only the most successful males have a chance to procreate.

Post: #5

From an evolutionary point of view, I don't imagine either of these guys are going to be very motivated to contribute to the "family" beyond a bare minimum. Why should they, if 4 of them are actually raising some other alpha's spawn? I don't think this is a bad solution per se, it's just kind of... false harmony.

Post: #6

why don tthey just use hookers

Post: #7

(03-19-2013 08:11 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  From an evolutionary point of view, I don't imagine either of these guys are going to be very motivated to contribute to the "family" beyond a bare minimum. Why should they, if 4 of them are actually raising some other alpha's spawn? I don't think this is a bad solution per se, it's just kind of... false harmony.

One thing you might note is in polyandrous societies women always marry brothers

You would therefore be closely related to any child produced

There is no society in the world where women marry multiple husbands who are unrelated

Post: #8

(03-19-2013 08:11 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  From an evolutionary point of view, I don't imagine either of these guys are going to be very motivated to contribute to the "family" beyond a bare minimum. Why should they, if 4 of them are actually raising some other alpha's spawn? I don't think this is a bad solution per se, it's just kind of... false harmony.

Well, they are brothers. So the kid has the same genetic material regardless of which one is the father.

In the south of India men have traditionally been encouraged to marry their first cousins or their nieces (sister's daughters). Like the above case of the woman marrying brothers it's done to keep property in the family line. That increases the evolutionary success of the family.

It looks strange from our perspective, but both of the above cases work and make sense in evolutionary terms.

It isn't comparable to oddball poly-queer-feminists in the West who choose polyandry out of ideology. In fact this is the biggest failing when feminists draw on anthropology to attack 'patriarchy' and justify alternative lifestyles. They pick examples like this, or examples from matrilineal societies, or examples from bonobos, and completely disregard the context and evolutionary impetus behind the behaviours they point to.