Other clerics have said male polygamy serves a social purpose, allowing widows, divorcees and unmarried women to find a partner.
This is why we find so few widows in the muslim world. So few divorcees. This is why when asking your parents to marry you off they find a woman much older than you. This is why when you bring a gf that you wish to marry your parents frown because she is a virgin and NOT because she's had previous relationships. This is why you find so many men willing to marry a divorcee, specially one with kids. This is why young girls generate large dowries. No wait. That last one is inaccurate. Older women generate large dowries...

Motherfucker, enough with the apologies. Muslim world, Arabic world is fucking enamored with virgins, obsessed rather. Its Lolita everyday over there. In fact I cant even borrow the novel Lolita at a public library without feeling a tinge of embarrassment. I keep thinking to myself, why didnt i go for Pale Fire!!!