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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Kaizen: [qb] It's been my recent observation that a woman is far more willing/likely to share her husband if the "other" woman is her actual sister.[/qb][/QUOTE][b]LOL[/b] I don't know. I guess that would depend on the culture. The practice where a man is married to women who are sisters is known as sororal polygyny. [QUOTE][qb]Is this a common pattern and is there a natural explanation for it? Also, when I imagine it, if I were to check out of my current existence and I got to pick who gets to "inherit" my wife, I'd be far more comfortable if it were one of my "blood" brothers. It probably has something to do with genetic competition. [/qb][/QUOTE]The converse is fraternal polyandry when a woman is married to brothers. This was once a not uncommon practice by Iranian and Indian peoples. Even in India while the custom of outright polyandry is largely banned, they still preserve the custom in some places for a widow to marry her dead husband's brother. Getting back to sororal polygyny, I don't know if it was practiced in particular by any of the pharoahs. It would be interesting if it was. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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