Continuous Polygamy and Red Light Districts
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 7:24 am
What if the United States had never encroached on the the Kingdom of Deseret (the LDS dominant areas of the intermountain west) with their limiting brand of monogamous morality?
It has been mentioned on the forums that the current percentage of Utah residents practicing polygamy is only 1.4% of the population. My guess is that left unfettered by the tyranny of monogamists, the percentage of brethren engaging in The Principle of polygamy would be around 6% of the adult male population. This in turn would involved about 50% of the minor and adult female population. That would leave a fairly large population of unmarried males.
Would the sexual needs of this large group of bachelors lead to Church officials tacitly approving red light districts, so long as the workers and proprietors paid tithing?
Celestial marriage transformed lascivious polygamic cohabitation into something acceptable to the LDS people. Perhaps for these LDS bachelors, some sort of polyandrogenic cohabitation, for time but not eternity, could have met with approval. However, a potential problem would arise when some of the most nubile daughters of Zion would opt for this arrangement. How could one sanctified old Elder compete with a half dozen young men for some young lady's affections, other than by virtue of possessing a very prodigious Priesthood?
It has been mentioned on the forums that the current percentage of Utah residents practicing polygamy is only 1.4% of the population. My guess is that left unfettered by the tyranny of monogamists, the percentage of brethren engaging in The Principle of polygamy would be around 6% of the adult male population. This in turn would involved about 50% of the minor and adult female population. That would leave a fairly large population of unmarried males.
Would the sexual needs of this large group of bachelors lead to Church officials tacitly approving red light districts, so long as the workers and proprietors paid tithing?
Celestial marriage transformed lascivious polygamic cohabitation into something acceptable to the LDS people. Perhaps for these LDS bachelors, some sort of polyandrogenic cohabitation, for time but not eternity, could have met with approval. However, a potential problem would arise when some of the most nubile daughters of Zion would opt for this arrangement. How could one sanctified old Elder compete with a half dozen young men for some young lady's affections, other than by virtue of possessing a very prodigious Priesthood?
(For further evidence of this see the pictures of BY wives .)