From Mark Twain's satirical book Roughing It to the HBO series Big Love, polygamy has long been a subject of intense curiosity in popular American culture. Over the years, it's been treated in both ...

HILDALE, Utah — Marion Timpson’s own marriages reflect Utah’s recent legal battles over polygamy. “I married Holly in 2005 and Katie in 2013, and I married Lisa in 2014,” the polygamist told FOX 13 ...

From marriage to friends with benefits, intimate relationships come in different varieties. Recently, a polyamorous wave has spread over the Western world, with increased discussion around, and ...

A 1937 piece in Liberty magazine, "Polygamy on the Santa Fe Trail," introduced Americans to Short Creek, a fundamentalist Mormon settlement on the Utah-Arizona border that was nothing more than "25 or ...

In July, Uganda’s courts swiftly dismissed a petition challenging the legality of polygamy, citing the protection of religious and cultural freedom. For most social scientists and policymakers who ...

Reading through the draft Marriage Bill recently, a curious thought struck me. That despite the drafters’ best intentions, they had concurrently entrenched the weaknesses of both traditional and ...

The fact that Warren Jeffs, a notorious polygamist, is languishing in prison on two felony counts of child sexual assault is well known. What is less known is how Jeffs was able to create a culture of ...

The stability of any social order depends not merely on formal structures of governance, but on the intimate arrangements through which societies reproduce themselves. In Ghana, the persistence of ...

Veteran Nigerian comedian, Ali Baba is of the opinion that nothing is wrong with polygamy in an African setting, and that even Christianity does not frown at it. The humorist, who spoke as a guest on ...

Bigamy is prohibited by Article 196 of the Maltese Criminal Code. Bigamy and polygamy are two different types of marriage practices, both involving marriages to multiple spouses. In a bigamous ...