New research suggests that men from polygamous cultures outlive those from monogamous ones. Virpi Lummaa, an ecologist at the University of Sheffield, suggested that after accounting for socioeconomic differences, men aged over 60 from 140 countries that practice polygamy to varying degrees lived on average 12% longer than men from 49 mostly monogamous nations.
Posts Tagged ‘marriage’
Study Shows Polygamy Can Increase a Man’s Life by 9 Years
Posted: 16th July 2010 by Sus Scrofa in LifestyleTags: marriage, multiple wives, polygamy, scientific study, scientists
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Teenager Passes Out When Forced to Marry a Cow He Had Sex With
Posted: 16th June 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Oddly Enough, What the F*ck!Tags: bestiality, cow, marriage, Sex, teenager
A Balinese teenager caught in the act of intercourse with a cow passed out on Friday when he was forced to marry the animal in a ceremony witnessed by hundreds of curious onlookers. As the Jakarta Globe reported earlier in the day, Ngurah Alit, 18, an unemployed youth from the seaside village of Yeh Embang [...]
Try to Kill Spouse, Still Win in Divorce Court
Posted: 15th June 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Crime, PoliticsTags: attempted murder, court, divorce, marriage
The wife of a Southern California police detective, distraught because she had lost custody of her children, tries to hire a hit man from the Vagos motorcycle gang to kill him. Instead, gang members alert police, who disguise themselves as biker thugs and secretly tape a conversation with her, leading to the wife’s arrest and [...]
Wife Sets Herself on Fire over Failed Marriage
Posted: 14th June 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Sad News, What the F*ck!Tags: burn, divorce, fire, marriage, suicide, wife
A Dallas woman on Thursday doused herself in gasoline and set herself on fire because of her failed marriage, police said. The incident happened sometime before 4 p.m. at a residence in the 6300 block of Denham Street in the southeast section of the city. Investigators said 22-year-old Josephine Garcia Diaz had argued with her [...]
Iceland Loves Gay People and Gay People Love Iceland
Posted: 11th June 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Lifestyle, PoliticsTags: gay, gay marriage, Iceland, marriage, same-sex
Iceland, the only country in the world to have an openly gay head of state, passed a law on Friday allowing same-sex partners to get married in a vote which met with no political resistance. The Althingi parliament voted 49 to zero to change the wording of marriage legislation to include matrimony between “man and [...]
City of Romance Helps France Average 260,000 Divorces Annually
Posted: 9th November 2009 by Sus Scrofa in LifestyleTags: divorce, France, marriage, married, Paris
Paris, the city of romance, got a lesson in love’s hard knocks Sunday, as thousands flocked to the French capital’s first divorce fair. In France, nearly one out of two marriages ends in divorce, according to the country’s National Institute of Demographic Studies. More than 130,000 divorces were registered in 2007, as compared to just [...]
Louisiana Judge Resigns Over Interracial Marriage
Posted: 4th November 2009 by Veritas in LifestyleTags: interracial, louisiana, marriage
At least four times in the last 2 1/2 years, Keith Bardwell says he refused to marry interracial couples while serving as a Louisiana justice of the peace.
14 Relationship Killers Women Commit
Posted: 30th October 2009 by Veritas in Hot Chicks, LifestyleTags: break up, Hot Chicks, love, marriage, relationship
It’s said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. So, yes, we know that snooping around our mate’s email account is a bad idea and that believing in the fairy-tale love stories we grew up reading is silly, but sometimes we find ourselves giving [...]
Brunei Wants to Whip Cheating Husbands
Posted: 22nd October 2009 by Veritas in LifestyleTags: brunei, cheat, husband, marriage, Muslim, whip, wife
Most Bruneians want husbands who cheat on their wives to be whipped, according to a recent survey in the Muslim-majority country.
Interracial Couple Denied Marriage in Louisiana
Posted: 16th October 2009 by Veritas in LifestyleTags: interracial, justice, love, marriage, race
A white Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.
Maylasia Offers Free Honeymoons to Slow Divorces
Posted: 13th October 2009 by Veritas in LifestyleTags: divorce, honeymoon, malaysia, marriage, Muslim
Malaysia’s eastern state of Terengganu is offering free honeymoons worth up to $440 each to rekindle the romance between married couples on the brink of divorce.