Then he cohabits with a prostitute or other immoral woman without marriage. Serial polygamy , that is, marriage, divorce, marriage, divorce and so on any number of times. A man married to one woman but having and supporting one or more mistresses . An unmarried man having a number of mistresses . Islaam condones, but discourages , the first and forbids the other two .
Wars cause the number of women to greatly exceed the number of men .
In a monogamous society these women, left without husbands or support, resort to prostitution, illicit relationships with married men resulting in illegitimate children with no responsibility on the part of the father, or lonely spinsterhood, or widowhood . Some western men take the position that monogamy protect the rights of women . The society has so many practices which exploit and suppress women, leading to women's liberation movements from the suffragettes of the early twentieth century to the feminist of today. Easy birth control and easy legal abortion has opened the door of illicit sex to women and she has been lured into the so-called sexual revolution. But she is still the one who suffers the trauma of abortion and the side effects of the birth control methods.