This is one hell of a study…you must take out the time to read it:
Monogamy has replaced polygamy because societies where men can marry more than one woman are more violent, researchers say.
A study found that in polygamous cultures, levels of rape, kidnap, murder and robbery increase as the dissatisfied men left on the shelf go on the rampage.
Prof Joseph Henrich said: "Our goal was to understand why monogamous marriage has become standard in most developed nations in recent centuries, when most recorded cultures have practiced polygamy.
"Our findings suggest that that institutionalized monogamous marriage provides greater net benefits for society at large by reducing social problems that are inherent in polygamous societies."
Published in journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society the study represents the most comprehensive study of polygamy and the institution of marriage.
It found significantly higher levels of rape, kidnapping, murder, assault, robbery and fraud in polygamous cultures found in Asia and Africa.
Prof Henrichs said that these crimes are caused primarily by pools of unmarried men, which result when other men take multiple wives.
He said: "The scarcity of marriageable women in polygamous cultures increases competition among men for the remaining unmarried women.
"The greater competition increases the likelihood men in polygamous communities will resort to criminal behaviour to gain resources and women."
I do find this study a little biased. Women are raped all over the world. This reason that pools of unmarried men go about raping women as there is scarcity of marriageable women is laughable. Women are raped in places where lots of women are unmarried. Women are also raped in places which are supposed to have all sorts of rights. I think women are targeted everywhere. Monogamy has its advantageous over polygamy but to presume that in Muslim countries women are raped as there is scarcity of unmarried women is absurd. And to presume that all the rapists are unmarried is also laughable. Rapists are married as well as unmarried men. Moreover, many spinsters in the Muslim world are growing old; they even die & not a single guy kisses them.
Well I’m not saying don’t throw dirt on the Muslim world, but please come up with intelligent & better arguments. And almost every day I read that men & women stab & torture their pets in the West where it is claimed that men are less violent. Moreover, they are also very creative when it comes to torturing humans. Their own dailies cover those stories brilliantly.
By the way, I don’t like the idea of polygamy either but I have different reasons.
Source:
Monogamy ‘safer’ than polygamy
Monogamy has replaced polygamy because societies where men can marry more than one woman are more violent, researchers say.
A study found that in polygamous cultures, levels of rape, kidnap, murder and robbery increase as the dissatisfied men left on the shelf go on the rampage.
Prof Joseph Henrich said: "Our goal was to understand why monogamous marriage has become standard in most developed nations in recent centuries, when most recorded cultures have practiced polygamy.
"Our findings suggest that that institutionalized monogamous marriage provides greater net benefits for society at large by reducing social problems that are inherent in polygamous societies."
Published in journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society the study represents the most comprehensive study of polygamy and the institution of marriage.
It found significantly higher levels of rape, kidnapping, murder, assault, robbery and fraud in polygamous cultures found in Asia and Africa.
Prof Henrichs said that these crimes are caused primarily by pools of unmarried men, which result when other men take multiple wives.
He said: "The scarcity of marriageable women in polygamous cultures increases competition among men for the remaining unmarried women.
"The greater competition increases the likelihood men in polygamous communities will resort to criminal behaviour to gain resources and women."
I do find this study a little biased. Women are raped all over the world. This reason that pools of unmarried men go about raping women as there is scarcity of marriageable women is laughable. Women are raped in places where lots of women are unmarried. Women are also raped in places which are supposed to have all sorts of rights. I think women are targeted everywhere. Monogamy has its advantageous over polygamy but to presume that in Muslim countries women are raped as there is scarcity of unmarried women is absurd. And to presume that all the rapists are unmarried is also laughable. Rapists are married as well as unmarried men. Moreover, many spinsters in the Muslim world are growing old; they even die & not a single guy kisses them.
Well I’m not saying don’t throw dirt on the Muslim world, but please come up with intelligent & better arguments. And almost every day I read that men & women stab & torture their pets in the West where it is claimed that men are less violent. Moreover, they are also very creative when it comes to torturing humans. Their own dailies cover those stories brilliantly.
By the way, I don’t like the idea of polygamy either but I have different reasons.
Source:
Monogamy ‘safer’ than polygamy
