It's been encouraged in a recent thread that RVF members marry within the tribe. Liberty Sea remarked, "The MSM will start calling us a cult, though." Since they're going to do that anyway, why not adopt another cultlike practice by practicing polygyny? This would involve RVF members' being open not only to their daughters' marrying an RVF member, but also to their daughters' being the first, second, or third, etc. wives in a polygynous marriage. Some thoughts on this:
(1) Marrying two sisters would help preserve the original familial bonds (as opposed to separating sisters by dispersing them among multiple husbands). It would also eliminate the father's need to find another guy to marry his younger daughter. He would have already screened the first guy and would have a few years of marital track record to review in making his decision. He might even offer a discount on the dowry, e.g. buy one daughter, get 50 percent off the second. The husband would also avoid the need to meet and get to know another set of parents when looking for a second wife, and would in general get to avoid having multiple sets of in-laws to deal with.
(2) Polygyny leads to more harmonious marriages, by giving wives another adult in the household to talk to besides their husband. As someone pointed out in an RoK discussion on polygamy, "2 women openly with 1 man will STFU and compete like mad, while absorbing each others need for long winded emotional 'relationship' conversations.... it's a bit like the way noise cancelling headphones work..."
(3) Polygyny reduces the need for people to resort to premarital sex and extramarital affairs. Polygyny allows (1) there to be enough alphas to go around to all the women who want an alpha, so that women will have less of an incentive to delay marriage in order to spend their prime years chasing after alphas; and (2) allows alphas to get both sexual variety and marriage at the same time, reducing their incentive to either delay marriage while they play the field, or have a mistress after they're already married.
(4) Polygyny will heighten competition among men to become desirable enough to attract one or more women. This will encourage men to learn game, become fit, strive for greatness, etc., which will benefit society in a variety of ways. Married men will have a reason to not slack off, but rather continue improving themselves in order to get more wives. Women tend to be more attracted to men who already have a woman; polygyny will allow married men to leverage this advantage without cheating.
(5) Polygyny can help the RVF tribe grow more rapidly. After all the available women in the RVF tribe have been married off, the remaining single men will have to choose between celibacy or marrying women outside the tribe. If they choose the latter, then polygyny will increase the overall number of women who are married to men in the RVF tribe, which presumably will increase the total number of children being born to these men.
If men choose celibacy (or have celibacy thrust upon them by a scarcity of available women), perhaps the tribe can find some helpful role for them as modern-day priests or monks who have given themselves wholly to a worthy object of devoted effort, from which they will not be distracted by women. If a worthwhile goal is found for them to pursue, and they are honored as altruistic benefactors of society rather than despised as losers, it might not be such a bad gig for those who have the right temperament for it. Not everyone is meant to be good at everything, and a lack of desirability to women under nature-ordained conditions of polygyny could simply be a sign that one is meant for a different calling.
(7) Polygyny gives women more flexibility, by allowing one of a man's wives to be a career woman while the other stays home with the kids. This provides increased security in case of the husband's death or disability. If something happens to the husband, two parents remain in the household, so that neither is left as a single mom. One wife will be able to stay home with the kids and the other will be able to work without feeling guilty that she's leaving the kids in the care of strangers. In the case of two sisters being married to the same man, there will be a biological affinity encouraging them to love the other wife's children all the more as her own family.
(1) Marrying two sisters would help preserve the original familial bonds (as opposed to separating sisters by dispersing them among multiple husbands). It would also eliminate the father's need to find another guy to marry his younger daughter. He would have already screened the first guy and would have a few years of marital track record to review in making his decision. He might even offer a discount on the dowry, e.g. buy one daughter, get 50 percent off the second. The husband would also avoid the need to meet and get to know another set of parents when looking for a second wife, and would in general get to avoid having multiple sets of in-laws to deal with.
(2) Polygyny leads to more harmonious marriages, by giving wives another adult in the household to talk to besides their husband. As someone pointed out in an RoK discussion on polygamy, "2 women openly with 1 man will STFU and compete like mad, while absorbing each others need for long winded emotional 'relationship' conversations.... it's a bit like the way noise cancelling headphones work..."
(3) Polygyny reduces the need for people to resort to premarital sex and extramarital affairs. Polygyny allows (1) there to be enough alphas to go around to all the women who want an alpha, so that women will have less of an incentive to delay marriage in order to spend their prime years chasing after alphas; and (2) allows alphas to get both sexual variety and marriage at the same time, reducing their incentive to either delay marriage while they play the field, or have a mistress after they're already married.
(4) Polygyny will heighten competition among men to become desirable enough to attract one or more women. This will encourage men to learn game, become fit, strive for greatness, etc., which will benefit society in a variety of ways. Married men will have a reason to not slack off, but rather continue improving themselves in order to get more wives. Women tend to be more attracted to men who already have a woman; polygyny will allow married men to leverage this advantage without cheating.
(5) Polygyny can help the RVF tribe grow more rapidly. After all the available women in the RVF tribe have been married off, the remaining single men will have to choose between celibacy or marrying women outside the tribe. If they choose the latter, then polygyny will increase the overall number of women who are married to men in the RVF tribe, which presumably will increase the total number of children being born to these men.
If men choose celibacy (or have celibacy thrust upon them by a scarcity of available women), perhaps the tribe can find some helpful role for them as modern-day priests or monks who have given themselves wholly to a worthy object of devoted effort, from which they will not be distracted by women. If a worthwhile goal is found for them to pursue, and they are honored as altruistic benefactors of society rather than despised as losers, it might not be such a bad gig for those who have the right temperament for it. Not everyone is meant to be good at everything, and a lack of desirability to women under nature-ordained conditions of polygyny could simply be a sign that one is meant for a different calling.
(7) Polygyny gives women more flexibility, by allowing one of a man's wives to be a career woman while the other stays home with the kids. This provides increased security in case of the husband's death or disability. If something happens to the husband, two parents remain in the household, so that neither is left as a single mom. One wife will be able to stay home with the kids and the other will be able to work without feeling guilty that she's leaving the kids in the care of strangers. In the case of two sisters being married to the same man, there will be a biological affinity encouraging them to love the other wife's children all the more as her own family.