There is a lot of speculation that Homer was actually female. Scholars cite certain passages describing in detail the activites of women at the time, which men would not have known.
There are some Amazonian cultures where a woman will take multiple husbands; she chooses one man and then will sometimes also take on his brother(s) as mates as well. This can lead to jealousy among the males since the female will always pick a favorite, but for the most part it works okay. Other primitive tribes will wed more than one woman to a man; but not for the man's gain. The tribe does so to allow each of the women to rest between periods of childbirth, basically they alternate pregnancies so they have a year or more to rest.
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