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| Essays on various topics in Joseph Smith's plural marriages, a work by author:
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- Initiation of the practice of plural marriage
- Introduction of eternal marriage
- Did Joseph Smith have a long history of "womanizing"?
- Joseph Smith's performance of marriages in Ohio
- Age of polygamous wives
- Children of polygamous marriages
- Polyandry: Women married to more than one husband
- John C. Bennett
Initiation of the practice of plural marriage
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- Question: When did Joseph Smith receive the revelation on plural marriage?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith actually teach and practice polygamy?
- Question: When and how did plural marriage begin in the Church?
- REDIRECT Question: Did Joseph Smith have a long history of "womanizing" before practicing plural marriage?
- REDIRECTPlural_marriage_and_the_law
Joseph Smith's marriages to young women
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- Question: Was Joseph Smith a "serial practitioner of statutory rape" or a "pedophile"?
- Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball
- Question: What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith?
- Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's marriage to Joseph Smith ever consummated?
- Question: Did Helen Mar Kimball "confess" to having marital relations with Joseph?
- Question: What were Helen Mar Kimball's views on plural marriage?
- Helen Mar Kimball: "I have encouraged and sustained my husband in the celestial order of marriage because I knew it was right"
Joseph Smith's "polyandrous" sealings or plural marriages?
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- Question: What do we know about Joseph Smith's "polyandrous" sealings or plural marriages?
- The doctrine of sealing and adoption
- Evaluating each polyandrous marriage
- Group 1: Women with non-member spouses
- Observations about the first group
- Group 2: Women with non-faithful LDS spouses
- Observations about the second group
- Group 3: Women with faithful LDS spouses
- Observations about the third group
- Group 4: Women likely separated/divorced from their first husbands (i.e., pseudopolyandry)
- A hypothesis—why so many early polyandrous marriages?
- Further evidence against sexual polyandry
- Nauvoo witnesses did not try to justify sexual polyandry
- Nauvoo detractors likewise say nothing about sexual polyandry
- Evidence from the "Temple Lot" case of non-consummation of polyandrous marriages
- Would polyandrous testimony have been harmful to the Church, and so avoided?
- Conclusion