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'''Polyandry''' means 'multiple men per women', in a sexual context, and is historically extremely rare , apart from some societies where there is scarce farmable land, where the brothers marry the same woman together. One example of such a society is Tibet, but such customs are declining, and in any case such relationships were a minority of marriages, with most men preferring and being able to obtain exclusive access to a woman. | '''Polyandry''' means 'multiple men per women', in a sexual context, and is historically extremely rare, apart from some societies where there is scarce farmable land, where the brothers marry the same woman together. It has also historically been a custom in regions with extreme asymmetrical gender ratios resulting in in there being many more men than women, due to sex selective abortion/infanticide of female offspring. One example of such a society is Tibet, but such customs are declining, and in any case such relationships were a minority of marriages, with most men preferring and being able to obtain exclusive access to a woman. | ||
==Gender ratios== | ==Gender ratios== | ||