Polygamy on HBO

[Selena_Kitt]

Big Love

It's a new series on HBO... Bill Paxton has three wives... in three separate houses... all next door to each other...

I love this line in the article:

"For those who complain that television too often overlooks religious life in favor of outrageous, sexually permissive characterizations, "Big Love" will be a conundrum. Lurking behind the expressions of piety, sanctity and obedience is the insistent issue of sex - polygamous sex."

What a paradox!!!

 

[arienette]

Big Love

It's a new series on HBO... Bill Paxton has three wives... in three separate houses... all next door to each other...

I love this line in the article:

"For those who complain that television too often overlooks religious life in favor of outrageous, sexually permissive characterizations, "Big Love" will be a conundrum. Lurking behind the expressions of piety, sanctity and obedience is the insistent issue of sex - polygamous sex."

What a paradox!!!

That sounds like such a great TV show idea. I want to see it. Oh well, no cable so definitely no HBO. Six Feet Under, a show that used to be on HBO, had an episode based around Polygamy...a guy dies and all of his wives have to talk to each other and calm each other down and be there for one another. It was so weird because the wife in the house (it was set in a funeral home these people run out of their house) started asking the Polygamist's wives how they felt about "sharing" their man and they said it was natural and that a man can love different women equally and women cannot...I was offended, I wouldn't be able to live that lifestyle without the angry Feminist Liberal coming out and kicking some ass.

 

[Weird Harold]

That sounds like such a great TV show idea. I want to see it. Oh well, no cable so definitely no HBO.

PBS has a documentary about polygamy -- the local PBS affiliate aired it earlier this week -- but it's not a series, and it is distinctly biased against polygamy in general. This HBO series seems like it's possibly biased the other way.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

they said it was natural and that a man can love different women equally and women cannot..

Interesting concept... I'm a one man woman myself...

but I wonder about the underlying biological ramifications of that... men wanting to go out and sow their seed with many women kinda thing...

I've heard many people say that humans weren't meant to be monogomous...

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Interesting concept... I'm a one man woman myself...

but I wonder about the underlying biological ramifications of that... men wanting to go out and sow their seed with many women kinda thing...

I've heard many people say that humans weren't meant to be monogomous...

I think that part of evolution, probably due to mutations, has been to cause some to be polygamous and others monogamous. I suspect that the latter is the mutation, but then again, it could just be social rather than biological development. Either way,
I wouldn't recommend either lifestyle for everybody. It's a very individual thing, IMO.