Why Four Wives When You Can Have Unlimited Silence?

The following article, Why Four Wives When You Can Have Unlimited Silence?, was first published on The Black Sphere. The Historical Context of Marriage (Or, How Humanity Got Stuck) Marriage has always been a fantastic idea—if you enjoy getting taken by the fine print. Oh the days when marriage was less about love and more about livestock exchanges (BBC). Ancient Mesopotamians treated marriage like a business merger, medieval Europeans used it to secure alliances, and modern humans use it to justify staying on the better medical insurance policy. But let’s be real—marriage was invented by someone who thought, “You know what’s better than one person judging me? Two families judging me.” The Four-Wife Dilemma (Or, How to Quadruple Your Problems) Now, some cultures allow a man to have up to four wives. Four. That’s not a marriage—that’s a focus group with veto power over your life choices. Imagine coming home to four separate opinions on how you loaded the dishwasher wrong. In this type of arrangement, you don’t need a marriage counselor, you need a referee. The Unlimited Slave Loophole (Or, Customer Service for Life) A Muslim man related that not only can he have four wives, but he can...