Your Sex Life Is Not My Business

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I try to avoid thinking about the sex lives of other people.

And one would hope that Canadian society has moved past the point of judging someone by their choice of sex partner, (or partners).

But apparently not.

The B.C. Supreme Court has upheld the ban against polygamy on the grounds that it is harmful to women and children.

Pedophilia; religious brainwashing; and isolating and under educating women are things harmful to society.

The people in Bountiful, B.C., need to be held accountable.

But choosing to be a part of polygamous or polyandrous, (a woman having more than one husband), marriage shouldn't be illegal and the partners should be entitled to all of the rights and protections of people in monogamous relationships.

After all, we live in a free-ish society.

I think.

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• Judge upholds law that polygamy has no place in Canada (theprovince.com)

Sister Wives



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SisTer Wives



...you better start swimmin'

Or you'll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changin'.

Bob Dylan

According to Wikipedia if a woman has more than one husband it is called polyandry and if a man has more than one wife it is called polygyny. Put them together and I guess you come up with the more common word 'polygamy'


The most famous polygamous group in Canada is the break-away Mormon sect in Bountiful, B.C.

But another hidden group came to light last year during the investigation into the deaths of the three teenage sisters, Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17 and Geeti, 13, who were drowned in Kingston. They were killed along with, Rona Amir Mohammed, the childless first sister wife of the father of the girls.

To get around the immigration laws when they came to Canada about 3 years ago, the dead woman was identified as a 'cousin'.

I'm not going to talk about the Bountiful court case or the horrendous murder in Kingston, I'm simply noting that polygamous families do exist in Canada and at some point in the not too distant future polygamy may be legalized.

With rulings on prostitution and polygamy coming up,  2011 promises to be an interesting year, Canada.

Hold on to your seat belts!

Related articles

• Bountiful women oppressed by law not polygamy, court told (theglobeandmail.com)
• Oh Canada: Will a Court Case Legalize Polygamy? (healthland.time.com)
• Anti-polygamy law oppresses wives: McGill prof (cbc.ca)
• Secrets of the polygamists (salon.com)