Comment on moms rule
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 day agoThere are definitely cultures who have practiced polygyny to get around this issue. Some still do today, for example in many different countries in Africa where people still practice a pastoral life.
Comment105@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I don’t see how polygyny gets around the issue of risk of the death from pregnancy.
Polygyny would get around the issue of men getting killed.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Polygyny is where one man has many wives.
Kayana@ttrpg.network 22 hours ago
Nope, that’s polygamy. Polygyny means many husbands for one wife.
Besides, neither of these would solve the aforementioned problem if we suppose that the birth rate of men and women is roughly the same.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
The birth rate of XY babies is actually slightly higher than XX babies. On the other hand, babies with higher testosterone tend to have weaker immune systems and so are more susceptible to infant mortality from disease.
Otherwise, I’m not sure what the problem is with men who don’t have wives? They simply don’t reproduce. Throughout history men have reproduced at a lower rate than women. In polygynous cultures it’s only the very powerful and wealthy men who have many wives. The poor and powerless men have few or none.