I have been researching alot lately regarding the topic of polyandry (allowing a women to marry more than one partner), and to why Islam prohibits it.
One of the obvious reasons is that the father can't be identified, I have also heard that when a women has more than on partner she is more prone to catch STD (even if they are all faithfull to eachother).
Now i have been looking to confirm this, but I cant find a solid statement that confimrs this. So I was wondering if any one you guys/girls can make me any brighter concerning this.
she will not catch an STD if the men are free of it and if they all
are faithful. if none of them are infected to start out with and if none of them go outside the marriage, the only way any of them could get an STD would be through an infected needle.
yes, i assume the prohibition has to do with not being able to prove who the father is. also, it would cut down on the population, since a woman is limited how often she can have a child, and men are not.
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Not to mention that one of the woman's roles in Islam is to be the obvious bearer and raiser of the children. Can't give birth/raise two babies, both coming from different fathers at the same time without a bit of difficulty, can you? :P
First let us understand the Islamic position. Islam allows polygamy in certain cases but it does not allow polyandry, that is a woman having more than one husband, in any case. This is the legal position.
First, sociologically speaking, the institution of a family in a patriarchal set-up can operate effectively in case of polygamy but it would simply disintegrate under polyandry. For arguments' sake, it is possible to have polyandrous families in a matriarchal set-up, but this would mean a change in the entire social matrix.
Secondly, from a sexo-socialogical viewpoint, it is possible for a man to have sexual relations with all his wives, if he has more than one, and impregnate them. But if a wife has more than one husband, she can, even in that case, be impregnated only by one.
This should also be kept in view that once a woman is pregnant she is not available for sexual relations for some of the time.
Thirdly, even from the physo-sexological viewpoint this arrangement would be an anomaly. Of the many aspects let us just refer to one. If we examine the origin and not merely communication of venereal diseases, we find that they originate from a woman being sexually visited by more than one man. As long as there is a one-man one-woman relationship, venereal diseases would not originate. If a man has sexual contact with more than one woman but the woman with whom he is having this relationship is not in sexual relationship with any other man, venereal diseases would not originate. But if a woman has sexual relations with more than one man the possibilities of the origination of venereal diseases present themselves. It is the nature of things and a violation of this would disturb the entire scheme of life. Polygamy has a place in this scheme, polyandry has none.
Islam has forbidden polyandry not for any partiality towards man, but for the good of man and woman both and of the entire human society.
Should people be banned from having more than one partner (outside of marriage)...?
Yes.
I don't think adultery should be a punishable offence though, but rather a sufficient argument for divorce, in which the affected spouse would receive a higher percenatge of common property than the wrongdoer or somethng like that.
As i said the number of women is higher than man. In the UK its between the 4-5 million more female than male.
So assuming a male gets married to one female, then we have leftovers. I would guess that they would want partners to!
So in that case islam allows a man to get married more than ones. Its not recommended, but only the good ones can manage it! As it is hard to treat all wifes equally.
As i said the number of women is higher than man. In the UK its between the 4-5 million more female than male.
So assuming a male gets married to one female, then we have leftovers. I would guess that they would want partners to!
So in that case islam allows a man to get married more than ones. Its not recommended, but only the good ones can manage it! As it is hard to treat all wifes equally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogra...#Age_structure
There's only about 700,000 more women than men in the UK. However, when it comes to mariage, there's more men than women, as the number of young men exceeds the number of young women.
And then there's places like India nad China where there's tens of thousands of men unable to find a spouse due to the lack of women.
So if anything should be legalized, it is polyandry.
Last edited by Whatsthepoint; 03-28-2008 at 01:06 AM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogra...#Age_structure
There's only about 700,000 more women than men in the UK. However, when it comes to mariage, there's more men than women, as the number of young men exceeds the number of young women.
And then there's places like India nad China where there's tens of thousands of men unable to find a spouse due to the lack of women.
So if anything should be legalized, it is polyandry.
Do excuse me, i thought the number was much higher.
Since when is there an age limit for marriage? The reason why there are more male than women (in India) is because parents used to kill there babies by abortion when they discovered it was a girl. I don't know if this is still practised
Polygamy = one husband with many wives. occurs mostly in tribunal companies where there is surplus of poor women. This is actually better for humanity in terms of growth population, but it is mainly done for the financial part since it occurs in poor contries
Polygandery = many husbands and one wife. This is actually worse for humanity in terms of growth population. It's only done in very few tribunal areas, mainly because the area is so poor and also because of surplus men.
So it is a matter of culture rather than politics.
If we examine the origin and not merely communication of venereal diseases, we find that they originate from a woman being sexually visited by more than one man.
Do you have proof for this? I've never heard this before in my life (and I've studies STD's/STI's a fair bit).
The reason why there are more male than women (in India) is because parents used to kill there babies by abortion when they discovered it was a girl. I don't know if this is still practised
It is, all over Asia! - Which leaves the point whatsthepoint is making true!
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The same. No amount of excuses can convince the majority, marrying more than one woman is anything less than sexual urges of the so called men in question! - It's to be BANNED!
Ėk Gusā Alhu Mėrā
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Kal Meh Bėḏ Atharbaṇ Hū Nā Kẖuḏā Alhu Bẖa.
In the Dark Age of Kali Yuga, the Atharva Veda became prominent; Allah became the Name of God.
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