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five wives is one woman in your world?what they dont teach proper math where you live?King David had at least five wives, and at least 20 concubines. His son had 700 wives! And 300 concubines! What a stud!
Shall we go with that thousands of years old definition of marriage? This one man, one woman stuff would be a real kick in the nuts to our biblical ancestors.
Contrary to your sarcasm, that arrangement still falls within the one man one woman definition of marriage.
You really need to think it through.
If A (a man) marries B (a woman). They are in a marriage.
If A, then marries C (another woman). He has entered into a second marriage.
A's marriage to C doesn't create any legal ties between B & C. B & C aren't married. There isn't one marriage between three people. There are two separate marriage. Each involving one man and one woman.
You seem to think each partner is added to one marriage. Because a man or a woman has two separate marriages, doesn't mean they are any less defined as a union between one man and one woman.
Polygamy is determined by the numbers of marriages, not the number of people in all the sets of marriages.