re: #222 lostlakehiker

The word polygamy includes both, but polyandry is far less common than polygyny. If polygamy were legalized, polygyny would constitute the overwhelming majority of polygamous marriages.

I assume this based on history and on the current incidence worldwide of polygyny and the near-zero incidence of polyandry.

Poligyny is historically far less common, and we can go all pop evolutionary here. I do think that at least a part of it was due to the fact that women always had far less economic power than men, which there’s good reason to believe won’t be the case in our society, say, 30 years from now. So I wouldn’t rely too much on historical evidence here.