Once, Twice, Three Times a Lady....

[R_C]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Before Mr Zuma’s inauguration eight months ago people had fun speculating as to who of his three wives would be the official First Lady. His shy first wife, known affectionately as MaKhumalo, whom Mr Zuma first met 50 years ago? Or one of the younger ones? All three, he determined, would be equal First Ladies. Each in turn has accompanied him on official visits. “There are plenty of politicians who have mistresses and children they hide so as to pretend to be monogamous”, says Mr Zuma. “I prefer to be open. I love my wives.”

His various paramours may not all be so easy-going. While MaKhumalo, whom Mr Zuma describes as “wife, friend, sister and mother”, seemed happy to attend his latest nuptials, Nompumelelo Ntuli, at 34 the youngest of his wives, apparently boycotted the festivities. And Mr Zuma’s third wife, Kate Mantsho, a former airline employee who bore him five children, committed suicide in 2000. His second wife, Nkosazana Dlamini, mother of four of his children, divorced him in 1998, citing “irreconcilable differences”, but has remained a trusted political ally. After a decade as foreign minister, she now serves in his cabinet as minister for home affairs.</div></div>


So are there any cultures where women have more than one husband?

[CeaBee]

Re: Once, Twice, Three Times a Lady....

I read about one on here once. It didn't sound like the woman had an easy life.

After tending to both a them.during the day..then she had to tend to both a dem at nite.

ETA: Sue's post remind me that the husbands were brothers

[Suesumba]

Re: Once, Twice, Three Times a Lady....

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: R_C</div><div class="ubbcode-body">[So are there any cultures where women have more than one husband?

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in India they have &quot;shared wives&quot; for the brothers of the official husbands who can't find wives of their own. girls aren't prized in some indian cultures and mysteriously die at birth, so woman shortage.

from what i read it wasn't a nice experience to be this shared wife in a male dominated society, particularly when your sex wasn't a prize.

i'm gonna go see if i can find it.

[Suesumba]

Re: Once, Twice, Three Times a Lady....

By Nita Bhalla

BAGHPAT, India (TrustLaw) - When Munni arrived in this fertile, sugarcane-growing region of north India as a young bride years ago, little did she imagine she would be forced into having sex and bearing children with her husband's two brothers who had failed to find wives.

&quot;My husband and his parents said I had to share myself with his brothers,&quot; said the woman in her mid-40s, dressed in a yellow sari, sitting in a village community center in Baghpat district in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

&quot;They took me whenever they wanted -- day or night. When I resisted, they beat me with anything at hand,&quot; said Munni, who had managed to leave her home after three months only on the pretext of visiting a doctor.

&quot;Sometimes they threw me out and made me sleep outside or they poured kerosene over me and burned me.&quot;
Read it and Weep

[R_C]

Re: Once, Twice, Three Times a Lady....

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CeaBee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I read about one on here once. It didn't sound like the woman had an easy life.

After tending to both a them.during the day..then she had to tend to both a dem at nite.

ETA: Sue's post remind me that the husbands were brothers </div></div>

&quot;tend to&quot; LOL !

Anyway, I'm trying to understand why in every polygamous society it would seem that the plurality only involves wives.

[j-kid]

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<span style="font-size: 17pt">&quot;Polyandry&quot;</span>

To answer your last question:

Because even though many things have changed, it is still a man's world.

[blugiant]

Re: Once, Twice, Three Times a Lady....

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: R_C</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Before Mr Zuma’s inauguration eight months ago people had fun speculating as to who of his three wives would be the official First Lady. His shy first wife, known affectionately as MaKhumalo, whom Mr Zuma first met 50 years ago? Or one of the younger ones? All three, he determined, would be equal First Ladies. Each in turn has accompanied him on official visits. “There are plenty of politicians who have mistresses and children they hide so as to pretend to be monogamous”, says Mr Zuma. “I prefer to be open. I love my wives.”

His various paramours may not all be so easy-going. While MaKhumalo, whom Mr Zuma describes as “wife, friend, sister and mother”, seemed happy to attend his latest nuptials, Nompumelelo Ntuli, at 34 the youngest of his wives, apparently boycotted the festivities. And Mr Zuma’s third wife, Kate Mantsho, a former airline employee who bore him five children, committed suicide in 2000. His second wife, Nkosazana Dlamini, mother of four of his children, divorced him in 1998, citing “irreconcilable differences”, but has remained a trusted political ally. After a decade as foreign minister, she now serves in his cabinet as minister for home affairs.</div></div>


So are there any cultures where women have more than one husband?

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jamaica

yu now durinn slaveree thymes inn ja deer wass a latt more men dan ooman. meybee dat y soo manee yaawd oomen ave more dan wan baby faddars ann y dem give certain men babies

[R_C]

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Soh wait, yuh a seh boops a wan slavery ting ? I thought it was a business ting. Mi hear di sketel dem seh dem have one man fi jewelry, one man fi shop a Miami, one man fi apartment, anedda fi cyar and a laas one fi baby diaper an school fee.

Weh dat haffi do wid slavery ?