Shit like these special rules gives fuel to people to target muslims politically in India.
Edit: why am i downvoted lol. Am i wrong?
Ruth_Edwards_798 on
Varies by country, mostly illegal.
zedk47 on
In the West, you can have as many mistresses as you like (as long as you can afford it)
WhenYoung333 on
So fundamentalist mormons do this illegally?
In Greece there is a muslim tribe in Xanthi called Pomaks who practise polygamy. They can ( by trandition ) marry up to two wifes.
abch222 on
I mean… it is illegal and criminalized technically in Turkey, however how strong that action is taken is questionable. We literally have a MP who openly said he has three wives.
Chance-Ear-9772 on
Would someone please explain illegal but not criminalised? By my understanding, polygamy requires registration of the marriages. If the marriages cannot be registered due to the law, how can polygamy occur and consequently, how can someone be arrested for it?
Drwixon on
As long as you’re rich enough you can pretty much be polygamous in the west as well .
HarambeTenSei on
It’s 2024, it should be legalized everywhere already. There’s no need for the state to involve itself in people’s private love lives
Iridismis on
Shouldn’t that map call it poly*gyny*?
I doubt a woman being married to multiple men is legal in many of the blue or green countries..
Aggressive_Goal_6871 on
Why do Muslims in India and Sri Lanka get special laws considering neither of those countries is predominantly Muslim?
lazyassfriendofmine on
You can still have threesomes, foursomes, 20somes in most of the gray countries.
No multiple marriages though, they had to draw the line somewhere.
I mean, I’m in Germany, and given their consent I could fuck and live with as many people as I want. I just can not marry more than one…
Investigator7123 on
I don’t care how people structure their lives and family. But religious rules are patriarchal and do not apply to women.
Scorpionking426 on
W Russia.
Rich_Parsley_8950 on
“Illegal but not criminalized” sounds more like it’s not illegal, but is not legally recognized, IE only the first/primary spouse is entitled to rights and protections aforded by the legal union of marriage.
SirRefo on
The thing is in the grey countries you can have 100 partners and involve with them at the same time but the difference is you can’t assign them as your partners officially.
Master-Pizza-9234 on
This map needs to be changed to specify polygyny and polyandry, In South Africa its perfectly legal for a man to have many wives, But a gay man for example would only be allowed 1 husband, and of course a wife cannot have many husbands (Not a perfect constitution after all I guess)
Pretty sure only bigamy is criminalised (multiple marriages), not against the law to just have unregistered romantic relationships with multiple people. In most places homosexuals also can’t marry so I don’t see marriage restrictions as something which practically prevents particular relationships from happening (though there can be issues with not being officially married to your partner)
Drone4396 on
By illegal most grey countries mean that they can’t process a 3 person marriage into their tax system.
eyetracker on
Tunisia doing Tunisia things.
Eswatini is another local outlier, the head of state is an open polygamist.
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Shit like these special rules gives fuel to people to target muslims politically in India.
Edit: why am i downvoted lol. Am i wrong?
Varies by country, mostly illegal.
In the West, you can have as many mistresses as you like (as long as you can afford it)
So fundamentalist mormons do this illegally?
In Greece there is a muslim tribe in Xanthi called Pomaks who practise polygamy. They can ( by trandition ) marry up to two wifes.
I mean… it is illegal and criminalized technically in Turkey, however how strong that action is taken is questionable. We literally have a MP who openly said he has three wives.
Would someone please explain illegal but not criminalised? By my understanding, polygamy requires registration of the marriages. If the marriages cannot be registered due to the law, how can polygamy occur and consequently, how can someone be arrested for it?
As long as you’re rich enough you can pretty much be polygamous in the west as well .
It’s 2024, it should be legalized everywhere already. There’s no need for the state to involve itself in people’s private love lives
Shouldn’t that map call it poly*gyny*?
I doubt a woman being married to multiple men is legal in many of the blue or green countries..
Why do Muslims in India and Sri Lanka get special laws considering neither of those countries is predominantly Muslim?
You can still have threesomes, foursomes, 20somes in most of the gray countries.
No multiple marriages though, they had to draw the line somewhere.
Indonesia should be blue
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy_in_Indonesia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy_in_Indonesia)
Many others are wrong as well and should be either blue or green.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_polygamy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_polygamy)
India L
Illegal in indonesia??
I mean, I’m in Germany, and given their consent I could fuck and live with as many people as I want. I just can not marry more than one…
I don’t care how people structure their lives and family. But religious rules are patriarchal and do not apply to women.
W Russia.
“Illegal but not criminalized” sounds more like it’s not illegal, but is not legally recognized, IE only the first/primary spouse is entitled to rights and protections aforded by the legal union of marriage.
The thing is in the grey countries you can have 100 partners and involve with them at the same time but the difference is you can’t assign them as your partners officially.
This map needs to be changed to specify polygyny and polyandry, In South Africa its perfectly legal for a man to have many wives, But a gay man for example would only be allowed 1 husband, and of course a wife cannot have many husbands (Not a perfect constitution after all I guess)
[Thailand should be orange or green](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy_in_Thailand)
Pretty sure only bigamy is criminalised (multiple marriages), not against the law to just have unregistered romantic relationships with multiple people. In most places homosexuals also can’t marry so I don’t see marriage restrictions as something which practically prevents particular relationships from happening (though there can be issues with not being officially married to your partner)
By illegal most grey countries mean that they can’t process a 3 person marriage into their tax system.
Tunisia doing Tunisia things.
Eswatini is another local outlier, the head of state is an open polygamist.