boxy, you don't really believe that surely, that women whatever their culture would be happy and in agreement with their husbands having another wife or two, that it takes the burden off them, and they can share the child rearing, care. Everything i have read says to the contrary of your statement, that often the first wife gets discarded effectively, that once she is too old to bear children then is more or less put aside, and that jealousy is no different with these women than it would be in western society. Polygamy only truly suits men, in whatever society.