After lunch, we were sitting around under a shade tree with all the women we’d spent our visit with. We began asking about sex and marriage, and although they laughed at us a lot, they answered most of our questions. I was surprised to find that most of them belonged to polygamous marriages. Since 92% of this country is Muslim, so I should probably mention Islam’s position on polygamy. Prophet Mohammed said that a man can have up to four wives as long as he treats them equally. This makes sense, because the Quran was written in the context of war, when there was a shortage of young men. The Prophet later admonished his followers, saying they were incapable of treating their wives fairly. Feminists take this to mean men should only take one wife. Traditionalists
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