Women out number men, there should be a reason

You may have read a Reuters story of men preferring women who cheat with women to those who cheat with men. Women’s preferences were found to be reversed. It is basically a sinful fantasy by men of having multiple partners simultaneously. With women, it is an issue of comparison, and naturally, women are more forgiving than men when it comes to adultery.

Thank God, I and Adam married the one woman each. Abraham waited for the son of the promise far too long and his wife to give an Egyptian housemaid named Hagar, for the birth of the heir. At 86 years of age, Abraham obliged to having a younger fertile woman.

(I must mention how the Holy Bible expresses how very beautiful Sarah, Abraham’s wife was. Abraham thought people would kill him for his wife and twice denied her, saying she was her sister, to Abimeleck and to Pharoah. Sarah was actually a daughter of his father, but different mothers. At 100, Abraham was circumcised with Ishmael, the same year Isaac was born of an aged Sarah.)

Abraham lost his wife, Sarah at about 128 years old and buried her, and went on to marry one more wife, Keturah. Many of us would envy the man with the fire power to marry at that age. Keturah mothered for Abraham, Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah. He had several concubines of his own. He died aged 175.

In ancient times, men’s pride lay with having seed to perpetuate the family name. As for people like Solomon who married 700 times and had 300 official concubines (and I am convinced there is more off record) it was a case of pleasure than need. Hard as it may for 2 women in bigamy, you see how the 700 harmoniously lived together, being at piece even with concubines. It is a gift men do not have.

Following his raw deal with uncle Laban, Jacob married Leah and then Rachel. Rachel gave in her maid, Bilhah, to Jacob for a concubine, and so did Leah. For sure, there were less grounds of jealousy here and maybe, that is why men had no fantasy of having more than one woman in bed. In the case of Solomon, it is safe to assume he did, because, how does one cater for a 1000 women?