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New poster here.  What would be your definition of common with respect to polygamy? I feel it's fairly common in Egypt, for example.  Wealthy businessmen who can support more than one wife often have two.  And on the opposite side of the spectrum, very poor farmers sometimes have two wives.  Then there are the Western women who become second wives in Egypt.  I know two personally.  Both married to businessmen who do not divorce their first wives because it would dishonor their wives and hurt them financially.  One guy has sex with both wives.  The other guy says he doesn't -- Egyptian version of a divorce in everything but name from the first wife.  Who knows?  I'd say about 10% of the Egyptian marriages I know personally include two wives.  I've never met someone with three.  I don't know if that's common or not.  But it's definitely there and not hidden, and it depends who you ask whether it's a negative or not.  
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What's your definition of fairly common? 10%?

In the Muslim community I grew up, I've known two polygamous marriages in seventeen years.

My husband's Saudi family, which is easily 300+ people, has one polygamous marriage.

We do know someone with three but only one.  The truth is few men can afford more than one. [/quote]

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