On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Dave Land wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
>
>> At 12:20 PM Monday 1/28/2008, Dave Land wrote:
>>
>>> Then again, I am at the far-liberal end of Christianity, to the point
>>> that there are probably plenty who call themselves Christians who,
>>> learning what I believe, would no longer count me among their number.
>>
>> At least they don't ask you how many wives you have . . .
>
> Yes, it's amazing how a practice of your Church of roughly 100 years ago
> which, by some accounts, was not all that widely practiced, and
> by no means _the_ defining characteristic of the Church) is all that
> most people seem to know about. To some extent, you can thank HBO's "Big
> Love", which, like most interest in Mormon Polygamy, seems to be based
> on the titillation factor, more than anything else.
Apparently that took all the fantasy/romance out of the idea of polygamy
or even polyamory for a number of guys, seeing the problems of having more
than 1 female sexual partner in the household, and a few people who had
had that fantasy gave it up after seeing Big Love.
Or so I heard from a source that had no reason to be lying to me....
Julia
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