A lawmaker in Thailand is proposing that women be allowed to have up to four husbands.
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I'm curious what the reasoning is.
Brains first guess is to encourage population growth.
While I don't know about Thailand, in many countries Muslim men are allowed to have up to four wives, so this may just be a "turnabout is fair play" deal.
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A lawmaker in Thailand is proposing that women be allowed to have up to four husbands.
I don’t think I know any straight women who want more than one
@skinnylatte as it stands now, Thai men can have four wives. And gay marriage is finally legal. So could this usher in the Thai polycule?
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A lawmaker in Thailand is proposing that women be allowed to have up to four husbands.
I don’t think I know any straight women who want more than one
@skinnylatte SHUDDER!
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A lawmaker in Thailand is proposing that women be allowed to have up to four husbands.
I don’t think I know any straight women who want more than one
@skinnylatte Oh god NO!
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A lawmaker in Thailand is proposing that women be allowed to have up to four husbands.
I don’t think I know any straight women who want more than one
@skinnylatte I know that polyandry used to be a thing in Tibet, while polygyny used to be a thing among Mormons (and others). My guess is that these things were more about social/economic/religious reasons than anything remotely to do with agency.
On the face of it, it looks like it might be an equality thing, but then I see the pic of the guy who's proposing it. Maybe he's just doing it to stir up anti-Muslim sentiment? I don't really know. Anything.
(and I also think that "marriage isn't a word; it's a sentence")
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@skinnylatte Oh god NO!
@skinnylatte Would they all be in the same home? Would they be my support staff? Ha!
Would I have to sleep with all of them? Would they do the dishes? Would I have to constantly pop out babies?
Would I be able to have my own home that they can't enter unless I invite them? And could I go on vacation, by myself, whenever I wanted to?
Would they clean toilets? Or cook dinner? Or change diapers?
Do these men also have other wives? Do I have to get along with them?
Who is cooking and cleaning?
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@skinnylatte Would they all be in the same home? Would they be my support staff? Ha!
Would I have to sleep with all of them? Would they do the dishes? Would I have to constantly pop out babies?
Would I be able to have my own home that they can't enter unless I invite them? And could I go on vacation, by myself, whenever I wanted to?
Would they clean toilets? Or cook dinner? Or change diapers?
Do these men also have other wives? Do I have to get along with them?
Who is cooking and cleaning?
@skinnylatte Who is in control of my finances? Who is in charge? Who makes decisions that affect all?
Who has custody of the kids?
Ugh!!! It all seems like such a nightmare.
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@skinnylatte I know that polyandry used to be a thing in Tibet, while polygyny used to be a thing among Mormons (and others). My guess is that these things were more about social/economic/religious reasons than anything remotely to do with agency.
On the face of it, it looks like it might be an equality thing, but then I see the pic of the guy who's proposing it. Maybe he's just doing it to stir up anti-Muslim sentiment? I don't really know. Anything.
(and I also think that "marriage isn't a word; it's a sentence")
@skinnylatte ... on a tangential note... matchmaking. It still goes on the world over, doesn't it? Here's one near me...
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0723/1584819-lisdoonvarna-closing-time/
(who knows, though... it might still be preferable to for-profit internet dating sites)
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@skinnylatte as it stands now, Thai men can have four wives. And gay marriage is finally legal. So could this usher in the Thai polycule?
@skinnylatte also, women hold the purse and the land rights in Thai homes
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A lawmaker in Thailand is proposing that women be allowed to have up to four husbands.
I don’t think I know any straight women who want more than one
@skinnylatte I’m going to go out on a limb and say there aren’t many gay women who want more than one husband, either.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io why???
what could possibly be the reasoning for this@piku @skinnylatte Cheap publicity?
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A lawmaker in Thailand is proposing that women be allowed to have up to four husbands.
I don’t think I know any straight women who want more than one
@skinnylatte Well, it depends on the situation. I am happy with one husband, however, if it was okay (both societally and with my husband) to have at least one more husband, I would do it ON CONDITION if that person was also very good with all of us and participated with daily tasks. As I have fertility issues, I am not worried about “too many children” problems
. Again, it’s all very situational and conditional, not just “sure, 3 more would be great!”
Regarding some men, yeah no thanks -
@skinnylatte I’m going to go out on a limb and say there aren’t many gay women who want more than one husband, either.
@Twotired hehehe or more than zero husbands
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@skinnylatte Well, it depends on the situation. I am happy with one husband, however, if it was okay (both societally and with my husband) to have at least one more husband, I would do it ON CONDITION if that person was also very good with all of us and participated with daily tasks. As I have fertility issues, I am not worried about “too many children” problems
. Again, it’s all very situational and conditional, not just “sure, 3 more would be great!”
Regarding some men, yeah no thanks@skinnylatte However, there is something to be said about having more than one partner. Because one person cannot and should not be “everything you’ll ever need” (sounds like a Swiss Army knife
). My husband has his strong set of qualities that are very important to me in a partner. However, he is lacking in some aspects (like taking long walks and just talking (he talks EVEN LESS then any man I’ve ever known )) I wouldn’t trade him for anyone in the world. It would be nice to have one more -
One is accustomed to lawmakers being ignorant of biology and weak on practicalities but that seems — oh, maybe incomes?
In China, decades of femicide and gendered abortion, at the demand of the IMF & Club of Rome, has resulted in large numbers of men without any possibility of finding a spouse or having children.
Xi is happy with the potential for an instant army
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/12/china-gender-dating-demographic-population-documentary/https://www.britannica.com/topic/one-child-policy/Consequences-of-Chinas-one-child-policy
https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/10/31/chinas-bride-trafficking-problem
However, it's resulted in the traffic of women from neighboring countries
https://www.imf.org/en/countries/chnhttps://kingcenter.stanford.edu/publications/issue-brief-conflicted-legacy-chinas-population-policy
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A lawmaker in Thailand is proposing that women be allowed to have up to four husbands.
I don’t think I know any straight women who want more than one
In the US anyway, the polyamory community tends to be very women-led, and somewhat hetero. Although there's a lot of bi and pan, and there are certainly gay and lesbian polycules
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Gender parity, as Muslim men are allowed to marry up to four women in some countries
@csolisr@hub.azkware.net iirc thailand is majority buddhist and doesn't allow such?
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@csolisr@hub.azkware.net iirc thailand is majority buddhist and doesn't allow such?
Thai law, which states, "A man or a woman cannot marry each other while one of them has a spouse."[5]
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A lawmaker in Thailand is proposing that women be allowed to have up to four husbands.
I don’t think I know any straight women who want more than one
Better: having four cats, or four "roommates" with cats.
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In the US anyway, the polyamory community tends to be very women-led, and somewhat hetero. Although there's a lot of bi and pan, and there are certainly gay and lesbian polycules
@NilaJones @skinnylatte As someone close to the ace end of the spectrum, I want to find a lavender polycule.
