Reverse polygamy…

[Armlion]

Love to read about one woman with multiple husbands. Just not sex, but the whole relationship.

 

[sirhugs]

why is this reverse polygam?
Isn't it the way it should be?

 

[PapaRomantic]

Love to read about one woman with multiple husbands. Just not sex, but the whole relationship.

Do you see them all living in one house, or she passes around the houses of the men?

 

[sirhugs]

Do you see them all living in one house, or she passes around the houses of the men?

why can the men pass around her house?

 

[PapaRomantic]

why can the men pass around her house?

Assuming you meant "can't," I didn't say that could not happen. I simply posted my first thought.

 

[Husky_Embrace]

Love to read about one woman with multiple husbands. Just not sex, but the whole relationship.

A nitpick, a polygamy is any person with multiple partners, regardless of their sex. The two main branches of polygamy are polygyny (great for Scrabble) and polyandry, which are a man with wives and a woman with husbands respectively.

So you'll want to ask for polyandry.

 

[TheLobster]

The two main branches of polygamy are polygyny (great for Scrabble) (…)

I’m gonna assume that the minor branches include stymy and syzygy.

 

[Armlion]

One woman with relationship with men is what I was thinking. Usually, the mindset of men has the man of the house and his women are highlighted. I am intrigued with the woman being the head with multiple men in the relationship?

 

[BellaBestia]

Multiple husbands? Sounds exhausting and irritating.

 

[ericalauren]

I used to be in a polyandry Facebook group, come to think of it.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

A nitpick, a polygamy is any person with multiple partners, regardless of their sex. The two main branches of polygamy are polygyny (great for Scrabble) and polyandry, which are a man with wives and a woman with husbands respectively.

So you'll want to ask for polyandry.

What do you call a woman with multiple wives or man with multiple husbands? (The answer is likely "poly", but why is that a different case?)

 

[Rob_Royale]

Love to read about one woman with multiple husbands. Just not sex, but the whole relationship.

I like the idea. I've done the reverse, so if the right plot comes along, I'll certainly do this.

 

[Annabelle1990]

Love to read about one woman with multiple husbands. Just not sex, but the whole relationship.

Does a bi husband and a shared boyfriend count?

 

[TheLobster]

Does a bi husband and a shared boyfriend count?

That’s a throuple. I think OP is looking for a star topology, not a complete graph.

 

[anthrodisiac]

One woman accrues multiple husbands. But after a bit, she catches them having sex with each other without her! They get along really well, start to hang out with each other a bit more than she's comfortable with, conspire against her behind her back. Eventually, they oust her and have a wonderful gay man club, and hang out and become best friends, no longer the lonely men they used to be.

But it was really her plan all along, she's been trying to cure male loneliness, and she's doing it a few husbands at a time. She roams from town to town, marrying lonely men and bringing them together, then acting the nag to get them to toss her out and bond in the process.

 

[Husky_Embrace]

What do you call a woman with multiple wives or man with multiple husbands? (The answer is likely "poly", but why is that a different case?)

Good question. I only knew it meant "multiple" and then "men" or "women," so I needed to find some more detailed information.

From wikipedia: The term polygyny is from Neoclassical Greek πολυγυνία (polugunía); from Ancient Greek πολύ (polú) 'many' and γυνή (gunḗ) 'woman, wife'.

And

Polyandry (/ˈpɒliˌændri, ˌpɒliˈæn-/; from Ancient Greek πολύ (polú) 'many' and ἀνήρ (anḗr) 'man')
So theoretically a wife with wives would also be polygyny.

We could make our own. Polygynygyny or multiple women women. It is just silly. Multiple woman woman. Maybe we can take the stem, gunḗ, and move it first? Goonypolygyny? Then gynepolygyny or gynopolygyny might be better, as we have references to "gyny" for women (gynecologist, vagina). We can do gypolygyny or gynypolygyny as well. Vagypolygyny is the last one I offer.

I would land on gynepolygyny. It's not just a repeat, it is women related from the start and makes some sense. Vagypolygyny is my second favourite for the same reasons, but the inclusion of the reproductive organ might get some people who identify as women up in arms. Gynepolygyny is then a bit more neutral.

Though my Greek and Latin is severely limited as I've never been taught those at school.

 

[MountainLakes]

A nitpick, a polygamy is any person with multiple partners, regardless of their sex. The two main branches of polygamy are polygyny (great for Scrabble) and polyandry, which are a man with wives and a woman with husbands respectively.

So you'll want to ask for polyandry.

Additional categories (and potential story titles): PolyAndy (one woman - perhaps named Polly - and multiple guys named Andy). PolyJenny (one man and multiple women named Jenny). Or even Polley, Wisconsin where who the heck knows what all is going on. (I Googled it and found nothing but farm fields, trees, and a creek. So there must be something really suspicious going on there.)

 

[TheLobster]

PolyJenny (one man and multiple women named Jenny).

Surely you meant PolyGinny — a fanfic where she gets Harry, Draco, Neville, and maybe even Ron.

 

[MisterWolf26]

Love to read about one woman with multiple husbands. Just not sex, but the whole relationship.

Laurel K Hamilton

Lick of Frost, followed by another dozen or more titles. About a fairy princess and her ever growing Harem of husbands, consortium, lovers, and concubines

 

[Rob_Royale]

Laurel K Hamilton

Lick of Frost, followed by another dozen or more titles. About a fairy princess and her ever growing Harem of husbands, consortium, lovers, and concubines

Good point. Her Anita Blake series too, she has a whole crew of lycanthrope lovers. I recall her describing sleeping in a 'puppy pile' with all of them.

 

[MountainLakes]

Years ago I read a spoof on 'The Amerikans' where the KGB sent two sets of Identical twins to the US as part of the 'Illegals Program.' Only one of each pair was acknowledged, and used the cover ID, but they swapped back and forth and left and right and neither Stan nor Claudia knew what was what. Even though both were heavily involved with both Elizabeths.

 

[MountainLakes]

Surely you meant PolyGinny — a fanfic where she gets Harry, Draco, Neville, and maybe even Ron.

That could work too.

 

[liliput1]

That’s a throuple. I think OP is looking for a star topology, not a complete graph.

It's also a unicorn. Good thing this is fantasy.

 

[liliput1]

Multiple husbands? Sounds exhausting and irritating.

Thing is though when you're buying or renting a house with 2-3 stable incomes there are a lot of opportunities for everyone to have personal space.

 

[FantasySharer1]

Needed to take a break but I'm back.

I love the idea of a woman having two husbands: her husband and her brother.
Shares the house with both of them.
Since it is two men - she is the conflict resolver and final decision maker.