Continuous Polygamy and Red Light Districts

[_moksha]

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?

[_Fence Sitter]

What you would probably see is more along the lines of "Lost Boys" centers scattered around in the states bordering Deseret.
Also many women outside of Deseret who were unable to procure a mate would migrate to Deseret knowing the odd were more in their favor. This of course would have the effect of an uglier population in the Kingdom, over the long run. (For further evidence of this see the pictures of BY wives .)

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[_Themis]

maybe for the red light district you mentioned.

Just the ugly ones.

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[_Themis]

Well ugly is a relative term ... But I think maybe the view about women among these Mormon bachelors might be reduced to thinking about them as just a hole to deposit sperm in.

I meant that the missionary effort might be spearheaded towards recruiting females into Mormonism ... and of course at some point they would be separated by their function in Mormon society.

Also It is very unlikely that females would be viewed as missionary material.

You missed the joke which refers to a statement by an early church leader to missionaries about marrying the attractive ones before bringing them back so everyone can have a chance to get them.

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[_ludwigm]

... the joke which refers to a statement by an early church leader to missionaries about marrying the attractive ones before bringing them back so everyone can have a chance to get them.

that's not a joke ... its reality

Why are the facts always anti-mormon?
(as far as I remember, there is somewhere a thread about the same thought)