I wasn't advocating a society where every man has 2 wives. Only showing that it is possible. Once a man realizes that EVERY man could have 2 wives without too much hardship, it doesn't seem so bad when the occasional man takes more than 1 wife, as in normal polygamous societies, where most men have 1 or no wives. The point is that polygamy doesn't mean any man has to go without. That is the big road-block in the mind of many men. Once polygamy is accepted, the adulterous "courtly love" nonsense is easier to suppress, and we are 90% of the way to patriarchy. Allowing polygamy tilts the playing field toward men. All men, not just a lucky few. Hypergamy and SMV do have adaptive value; it just needs to be reined in. It has got out of hand.
The Victorians understood the concept of sexual sublimation. As to men waiting to 35 (or 27, as the most recent simulation gave), patriarchy is fairly effective at keeping a lid on young men's hormones. Look at China, where 90% of young men are sexless Gamma males. This is structural; once they hit a certain age, they become alpha assholes, and the society supports them in it. The patriarchy effect works across species, check out what happened when mature male elephants were added to a herd of young male elephants that were running around raping the females, etc. http://thesestonewalls.com/gordon-macrae...s-and-men/
The Victorians understood the concept of sexual sublimation. As to men waiting to 35 (or 27, as the most recent simulation gave), patriarchy is fairly effective at keeping a lid on young men's hormones. Look at China, where 90% of young men are sexless Gamma males. This is structural; once they hit a certain age, they become alpha assholes, and the society supports them in it. The patriarchy effect works across species, check out what happened when mature male elephants were added to a herd of young male elephants that were running around raping the females, etc. http://thesestonewalls.com/gordon-macrae...s-and-men/