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In Thailand a certain amount of women are 'freed up' because a significant amount of men become kathoeys.
The maths is always the same. Fundamentalist Mormon groups may not produce terrorists but if you look up the lost boys of Mormonism the least successful males essentially get kicked out and a great number die.
Monogamy is for civilised peoples. Jared Diamond makes the point that only a [significant] minority of cultures are monogamous but he never really mentions that a large majority of humans are monogamous, because most of those polygamous societies never really advanced beyond the stone age. Widespread polygamy is dependent on pooor male disenfranchisement. Monogamy enables progress. Endorsing polyamory leads to the collapse of Rome.
And as for your reluctant admission that power dynamics might have something to do with it: one rich man having two wives isn't a big deal, but every rich man having two wives is. And that's essentially the world you're arguing for, whether you realise it or not.
Finally, I'd be very careful what I wished for if I were you. You seem to have adopted polygamy as a pet cause because you feel it will help you with your admitted difficulties with women. In reality it will make things more difficult, because you will be fighting for an even smaller share of the market with an enlarged pool of disenfranchised males. Watch out.
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