Polygamy is just another aspect of male domination, in which women are used to satisfy man’s ego. It is also a disguised form of ménage à trois.
Even the Muslim Holy Book the Quran warns that it will be difficult for a man married to more than one wife to be fair to them. It says, “And if you fear that you will not be able to deal justly with the oppressed women then marry from among them two or three or four, but if you fear you won’t be just, then marry only one.”
Even some Muslim countries have taken measures against polygamy. Morocco is one of the Muslim countries where polygamy has been drastically restricted.
In Polygamy, it can be OK for the husband to be in the “possession” of at least two wives. But is it OK for at least two women to be sharing the same man? Some can argue in free societies, people are free to have more than one partner without being subjected to law suit; so why can it be the same for polygamy?
One of the arguments for polygamy is to save women who can’t get married because they outnumber men. The other is that they can’t support themselves. Marriage is the only means for them to feel safe and respected. These arguments seem obsolete. It is contradictory to the call for equal status between men and women an at the same time it allows men to have more than one wife in the name of preserving traditions which fundamentally can be scrapped and replaced with modern thinking.
In polygamy, marriage is a constant battle for the husband to satisfy both or all his wives as it is a battle for the wives to individually win the heart of their husband.
Governments should outlaw polygamy as it infringes the equal rights between men and women. It doesn’t make sense that a man has the right to have more than one wife; and a woman has the right just to one husband at the same time. As it is inconceivable for a man to share a wife with another man, so the same should apply for a woman forced to share her husband with another woman or other women.
