Virtues of Polygamy

In Salt Lake City last week three women spoke up in defense of the polygamy they had shared. They were members of the heretical Mormon sect recently prosecuted for polygamy (TIME, March 20). In a joint interview, they unanimously (and anonymously) agreed: "Our husbands are more faithful to several wives than most husbands are to one."

Said one poly-wife of her shared spouse (five wives, a score of children): "I have often observed how many little things I have learned from my sister wives that have added to the joys and comforts I can administer to my husband. I am convinced he loves any one of us far better than the monogamist knows how to.... My capacity to love my husband increased a thousandfold when I gave him another wife."

Said another: "We are accused of licentiousness, yet any thinking person knows that if it was 'women' a man wanted he would not have to marry them. A rather expensive gratification!"

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