Nice find, Rob! This would probably be something that the Juraians and the Lunarians would have an interesting discussion over.
"Yes," said Aeka, "It can be rather jarring for some First-Contact societies. From an evolutionary standpoint, polygyny simply makes sense. But then diseases enter the picture and it all changes. A thousand or so years later, they become FTL-capable and start running into other post-FTL societies and then it's such a smack in the face to them to see several women sharing a single man. There's actually been one or two worlds where a civil war broke out over the matter."
"Yes," said Aeka, "It can be rather jarring for some First-Contact societies. From an evolutionary standpoint, polygyny simply makes sense. But then diseases enter the picture and it all changes. A thousand or so years later, they become FTL-capable and start running into other post-FTL societies and then it's such a smack in the face to them to see several women sharing a single man. There's actually been one or two worlds where a civil war broke out over the matter."