community of wives

community of wives
   polyandry
   Nothing so tame as the Women's Institute, Mothers' Union, or Ladies' Circle:
    In the 1650s people listened with delicious horror to reports of Ranter meetings, where, it was said, adherents drank freely, smoked, swore, took off their clothes and practised 'community of wives' — meaning group sex. (Gentles, 1992 — the 'Ranters' were one of the many religious sects which emerged during the English Civil War, proving less enduring if more lively than, for example, the Quakers)

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