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@WashedOutGundamPilot @wgiwf >I know guys can bring up survival rates, or all kinds of left-brain reasons for having half a dozen wives, but it doesn't feel right, you're stealing from your brothers in the fold, dividing your scant resources even more, and giving your children an inferior quality of life. Nobody wants to grow up with courtly intrigue, one of 30 contenders vying for daddy's attention and love.
Funny you mention this. One of the so-called provisional laws quoted in favor of polygamy is precisely anti-polygamist in its ultimate purpose.
"If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights." (Exod. 21:10)
The Israelite who defied the greater things of God's Law and took on more than one wife could not divvy up what he gave to each woman in a scheme to make his polygamist lifestyle easier. Each woman was to be treated like she was his only wife. How draining would that be! And yes, "marital rights" includes her right to have lovey-dovey sex.

What's that? You married three-plus women with above-average libidos, leaving you tired daily? Sucks to be you but you can't say "no" to one or another temporarily. They all have "rights" to your body. That's how it works. Should have respected God's design from the get-go.

I almost feel sorry for Rudy because the hell he put himself into, if Mushoku Tensei was realistic.

There's a couple of other laws in the Pentateuch that are like this and are meant to discourage the evil behavior and regulate those that are commanded to fully keep the other parts of God's Law within the fubar situation they brought themselves and others into.

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