Ep 6 - Monogamy: The Thing Around Your Neck

In this episode of The Other Opinion Podcast, I examine the idea of monogamy not as a timeless moral truth, but as a marital model heavily shaped by European law, Christian missionary influence, and colonial cultural export. I question why polygamy, particularly in African societies where it once had social legitimacy and structure, came to be treated as morally suspect or even criminal under laws like bigamy. I also explore whether the case against polygamy is really as strong as people assume, whether monogamy was as much about regulating men and securing women as it was about love, and why the Bible itself is far less straightforward on the issue than many modern Christians pretend. This is a sharp conversation on marriage, law, culture, religion, and the history behind what society now calls “normal.”