We are a couple in our 40's. We live in Texas in the greater DFW area. [She] is bi-curious. [He] is straight. We are looking for couples and or select singles. We may consider relocating for the right people. We are a Poly Christian couple.

Single Christian male seeking women to become my wives and start a family in which all of the wives would be bearing children at about the same time. Women should be single, 18-35 years of age without children and interested in birthing 3 or more children each. Beautiful, intelligent, voluptuous, and big-breasted women are preferred.

-- Internet ads

You probably don't think much about polygamy. Sure, you're aware of it hypothetically, in the same way we're aware of midget bowling or Komodo dragons, that they exist in some far off, backward place -- in polygamy's case, maybe a barren swath of Utah where some renegade Mormon cult leader acquires wives much as he'd build a stamp collection. Mostly, though, the idea of multiple spouses remains shunted to society's fringes, off our collective cultural radar, only occasionally surfacing in the form of an MTV special or press coverage of a bigamy trial or a particularly outrageous episode of Sally Jesse Raphael. Or it's a joke, the stuff of e-mail chain-letter humor -- such as the Utah brewery that made national news last year with its Polygamy Porter and accompanying slogan, "Why have just one?" (After a public outcry, the beer and slogan were pulled. Apparently folks in Utah are a little sensitive about the P-word.)

But guess what? Polygamists, like the truth, are out there, and maybe not as far away -- or as few in number -- as you think. Hundreds of thousands of polygamist families now live in the United States. Millions more indulge in various other kinds of quasi-polygamous practices, generally called polyamory, involving committed relationships with multiple partners. The numbers of both groups are growing, and Texas is a particular hot spot: Most major Texas cities -- including Fort Worth -- have a polyamory group, and rural areas host an expanding number of "traditional" polygamist families, meaning one man and several wives. NEXT »

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