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Among the Irigwe of Northern Nigeria, women have traditionally acquired numerous spouses called "co-husbands". In August 2013, two Kenyan men entered into an agreement to marry a woman with whom they had both been having an affair. Kenyan law does not explicitly forbid polyandry, although it is not a common custom.
When a man is married to more than one wife at the same time, it is called polygyny. When a woman is married to more than one husband at the same time, it is called polyandry. In sociobiology and zoology, researchers use polygamy in a broad sense to mean any form of multiple mating.
Polyandry in India refers to the practice of polyandry, whereby a woman has two or more husbands at the same time, either historically on the Indian subcontinent or currently in the country of India. An early example can be found in the Hindu epic Mahabharata, in which Draupadi, daughter of the king of Panchala, is married to five brothers. [1]
But for one New York woman, the decision to go cheap on the legal fees led to a nasty surprise as she found herself accidentally married to two men at the same time.
The family structure and marriage system of tre-ba were characterized by two fundamental principles: the corporate stem family; and; the mono-marital principle. A "stem family" is one in which a married child is inextricably linked to his natal family in a common household. The "mono-marital principle" dictates that for each and every ...
A 2008 study on men who have sex with men while married to women found that such men do so for a variety of reasons and do not always consider themselves to be gay; for some, "their heterosexual interests and behaviors remain primary." Of the 201 men in the study, 9 identified as heterosexual, 77 as bisexual, and 115 as homosexual. [17]
The two married in 1976, with Taylor wearing fur and a turban-style headpiece, Vogue reported. In 1978, Warner was elected as senator and served five terms, from 1979 to 2009 , according to his ...
Several men were found guilty and convicted of sexual assault, rape, and bigamy involving underage girls. [ 53 ] [ 54 ] [ 55 ] The stars of the TLC show Sister Wives challenged the state of Utah's bigamy laws, [ 56 ] though also acknowledging that the state's constitutional ban of plural marriage licenses would remain regardless of the lawsuit ...