Researchers from Swansea University conducted a survey showing that a third of men and 11% of women in the UK want to have more than one permanent partner. It has been reported daily mail.
The study’s authors asked 393 heterosexual men and women about their attitudes towards open relationships where they would have to share one partner with other people or would have several partners themselves.
A third of men and 11% of women said they were ready to have more than one partner. At the same time, 5% of women and 9% of men were ready to give freedom to a partner. People were much less interested in multiperson marriages, which included mutual consent and formal marriage.
Respondents were also asked about polygamous marriages where one man marries more than one woman and polygamous marriages where one woman marries more than one man. Men were 3.5 times more likely to say yes to polygamy than to polygamy. Women were twice as likely to accept polygamy as polygamy.