Polyandry is a form of polygamy in which a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time.

Can polygamist have multiple husbands?

Polygyny specifically refers to a man who has multiple wives. Polyandry refers to a woman who has multiple husbands.

What religion allows multiple husbands?

Fraternal polyandry is practiced among Tibetans in Nepal and parts of China, in which two or more brothers are married to the same wife, with the wife having equal sexual access to them. It is associated with partible paternity, the cultural belief that a child can have more than one father.

Can a wife have more than one husband?

Polygamy (from Late Greek πολυγαμία, polygamía, state of marriage to many spouses) is the practice of marrying multiple spouses. When a man is married to more than one wife at the same time, sociologists call this polygyny. When a woman is married to more than one husband at a time, it is called polyandry.

Is it legal to have 3 husbands?

Both polygamy and bigamy are illegal in every state, in spite of the fact that tens of thousands of people in North America are involved in multiple marriages.