Not a Snowball's Chance

Moira on Inappropriate Response blogs on the recent article in USA Today defending polygamy: "Polygamy laws expose our own hypocrisy." I'd made a mental note to blog on that one myself, referencing slippery slope arguments and questioning the idea whether we want to open marriage up to mean, basically, "anybody or bodies you want to have sex with right now." But she's got a so very much better point that I won't even bother:

A while back an acquaintance of mine was bemoaning the fact that American society did not allow polygynous marriages. Being the cruel person that I am, I let out a derisive snort, referenced the middling status of his person and his income, and suggested that perhaps he hadn't thought this one through very carefully. We discussed for a while the fate of Joe Average (and Joe sub-Average) in polygynous societies and species, and it all ended in his staring, wide-eyed with horror, into the abyss of his "ideal" marriage system, where the prospects of his ever getting laid by a member of his preferred sex were woefully minute. (He felt particularly for the bachelors of certain bird species we lit upon - "They never get laid? Not in their whole lives?" "Nope. Never." He went quite pale at that thought.)

'Nuff said.