Polygamy and Sexuality

The Collective Psyche

In the collective Western imagination, the polygamist is a womanizer who cannot remain faithful, practicing a form of polygamy centered solely on sexuality. As explained in Le Socle des Mondes, man has been polygamous since the dawn of time, built for it and practicing it in fact, whether married or not. Whether one likes these facts or not, it changes nothing about reality. Fighting against DNA—even if we could, of course, debate the softening of a dictatorial patriarchy—is a futile struggle.

It is thus in his most animalistic guise that this man is imagined. He has several wives, whom he consumes at his whim, wherever he wants, whenever he wants, and while we’re at it, under the same blanket or not. When I specify “collective Western imagination,” I mean that outside of white society, no one imagines the polygamist as the white man does. The only reason for this is that polygamy, as practiced by any culture that traditionally practices plural marriage, is not part of the white universe. To conceive of it, they must look to what they imagine, what intrigues and fascinates them: plural sex.

In the end, for the white man, this man’s wives are sexual slaves, just as he desires them in his inner self, plastered with pornography. He dreams of being this person; whether he condemns him outwardly or not, he desires what he believes the polygamist achieves. He admires him for what he openly embraces, for he himself is a frustrated polygamist.