Today’s Guardian has an interesting article by a Sudanese woman about the practice of polygamy.

While formal polygamy might be frowned upon in the West, I know many people who are in polyamorous relationships of various kinds. As long as all participants in the relationships are happy with it I don’t see anything particularly wrong with such practices. The question I would always ask proponents of polygamy, however, is this: “If it is OK for a man to have many wives, is it OK for a woman to have many husbands.” If they answer “no” you can be sure that their interest in polygamy is more about dominance and property rights than about freedom of relationships.