00:00:04husbands it’s an unusual arrangement
00:00:08today polyandry only persists in
00:00:11isolated villages in the Himalayans when
00:00:16it was time for Sunita Kumari to Wed her
00:00:18family like many in India made
00:00:20arrangements but they involve more than
00:00:23a dowry celebration Sunita has not one
00:00:28husband not two systems but three all
00:00:33brothers
00:00:35what muster life be like
00:00:40Westerners might find the practice
00:00:42shocking but for this community it works
00:00:44fine one reason sheer practicality in
00:00:50the Himalayas arable land of scarce
00:00:53farms are tiny if each generation
00:00:56divided each family’s holdings everyone
00:00:59would starve polyandry preserves the
00:01:02farm and a family’s future unlike most
00:01:07men in India husband’s here handle
00:01:09domestic duties they’re willing to help
00:01:12with the cooking and childcare in
00:01:15fraternal polyandry a family picks a
00:01:17wife for its oldest son the marriage can
00:01:20also include his younger brothers they
00:01:23don’t have to join in but most do so
00:01:27that isn’t it no one takes a decision
00:01:29regarding one’s own marriage everyone at
00:01:32home sits down together and then it’s
00:01:34decided with the consent of everyone
00:01:36polyandry also functions as a form of
00:01:39birth control no matter how many
00:01:41husbands she has a wife can get pregnant
00:01:44only so often if each man were Wed
00:01:48separately the population here would
00:01:50explode but what about sex
00:01:53the forbidden core of the polyandry
00:01:56taboo in truth it’s a matter of
00:01:59scheduling and on the wife’s part for
00:02:02Berens for disease tolerance is very
00:02:05important the wife has to understand
00:02:07everything up submissive be a Cuby the
00:02:10older brother’s nature if the younger
00:02:12brothers Nature had taught away kissing
00:02:15what about jealousy that beign of even
00:02:18the most mundane there a target while
00:02:21you open if the wife is smart bye uncle
00:02:25bocce we’ll take turns each night modify
00:02:27Saudia that was asleep with all the
00:02:30brothers
00:02:30let’s get box Olivia I see grass have
00:02:33you boy yeah saw what that it’s not like
00:02:35the older brother wants or old Todd
00:02:37these needs what they get on subject has
00:02:39subtly O’Neil’s
00:02:41until recently no one here much cared
00:02:44with the outside world thought isolation
00:02:47and preserved a way of life that had
00:02:49withered everywhere else but a road now
00:02:53links the region to distant cities and
00:02:56on roofs once decorated only with prayer
00:03:00flags satellite dishes sprout this
00:03:05village has entered the modern world
00:03:07whose images of romance stand in sharp
00:03:10contrast polyamory but polyamory here
00:03:15faces a bigger threat education as more
00:03:22people are becoming more educated we are
00:03:24also practicing family planning if a
00:03:27father has only one son there will be no
00:03:29question about the land therefore common
00:03:32marriages will come to an end in two
00:03:36perhaps three generations polyandry may
00:03:38vanish here but for now those who
00:03:42practice it find comfort in the familiar
00:03:46I’m desert I myself feel that common
00:03:49marriage is very good on desert a girl
00:03:52at everybody ready I feel like everyone
00:03:54should live like our family even if we
00:03:58do not have anything to eat or drink
00:04:00we shall kiss terrific we sit happily we
00:04:04live peacefully
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