Sensation, othering, and sex? That's always going to sell newspapers.
As for the elephant seal system, there are dark rumors that the underground groups that still practice polygamy deal with extraneous males by kicking them out for religious infringements that may or may not be real, but that's the kind of thing that I read from people who are constantly looking for the worst abuses in any religion, so the reality of it is unknown.
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Date: 2011-01-23 01:03 pm (UTC)As for the elephant seal system, there are dark rumors that the underground groups that still practice polygamy deal with extraneous males by kicking them out for religious infringements that may or may not be real, but that's the kind of thing that I read from people who are constantly looking for the worst abuses in any religion, so the reality of it is unknown.