Polygamy

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i know its pretty disgusting.

I think the majority of women attracted to that are insecure to begin with...and probably don't feel worthy of being loved...and will settle for even the illusion of love.

yea, thats pretty sad....wouldnt say discusting tho. each to his or her own

"I think the majority of women attracted to that are insecure to begin with...and probably don't feel worthy of being loved...and will settle for even the illusion of love"

I certainly agree with that, a person would have to be fundamentally insecure, I think, to be willing to be brainwashed into a situation where they would share their partner with multiple people. Some people grow up in that culture, so it seems normal to them from the earliest age, but I'm talking about women from mainstream society who allow themselves to be convinced that this is acceptable.

I watched a programme about this recently and the women all showed obvious signs (and one even stated directly) that she was unhappy with the situation. The man in question (he had three live-in lovers) answered, when questioned, that he wouldn't be able to share any of his lovers with another man as it would make him jealous and insecure!

I would have loved to have been his interviewer; I couldn't believe that his interviewer missed the obvious opportunity to put to him why he expected these women to accept a situation that he himself would not.

I do find it disgusting by the way, I cant imagine myself in that situation without feeling quite definatly repulsed..

I understand why you find it repulive. I dont like the idea atall. Their business though I suppose. Were this interviewed family fundamentalist Mormons?

As a writer, yourself, I'm surprised you didn't realize while watching that program that a reporter/interviewer, etc, who is worth their salt has to be objective and can't seem to show any kind of bias. I understand the obvious question of which you must have been thinking, but can you think of a way in which asking it wouldn't have come across as leaning toward one side of the issue?Just curious, star...you know I luv you in a very you're-not-my-fiancee-but-if-I-were-single kind of way

I don't think she was literally putting words in the reporter's mouth. In any case, if the question as she stated it were asked in a neutral tone, I'm not sure how it would violate the reporter's objectivity. How would you ask the question?

Me? I WOULDN'T ask it, 'cause I think it leans to a particular side of the issue. Shrug.

I don't see it.Reporter: You say that if person X did action Y you, you would not be happy. You do action Y to person X. Would person Y be justified in feeling unhappy because of that?(He might answer that men and women are different, that their differences should be celebrated, and therefore the question does not obtain. But that would be silly.)I don't see how that would call the objectivity of the reporter's questions into, errr, question. If that were the case, what could the press ask the president at a press conference?

Ahhh..but what your scenario with the President doesn't take into account is the Prez already has a party affiliation and a published agenda. A reporter's job is to collect facts, not to delve into subjective opinion. A good reporter will collect facts and present them to the public in an objective fashion, thus allowing the reader to form his or her own opinion based on the facts of the story.The moment a reporter asks for an opinion or feeling about something, then relates it without offering multiple counter and supportive opinions from qualified and competent authorities on the subject in question, they've left objectivity behind and give the perception of bias.

That is absurd. The reporter wouldn't be asking the guy how to design an airplane wing. Asking a person of interest his opionion on a matter regarding the topic under discussion is well within bounds; it doesn't impugn the journalist's objectivity.Wouldn't like it if your did a certain thing, but you do that thing. Could you explain?What potentially false premise is made by that statement? What is not objective about it?To reiterate, the husband had multiple spouses. The wife does not. The husband says that if she did, it would make him insecure. How would you delve deeper? Or would that mark the end of that line of questioning?(On a tangent, how would a journalist pursue any line of investigation? Doesn't raising a question about anything imply the possibility of something or other? Of potential criminal guilt, for instance?)