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Welcome, everybody. This is episode 78 of the Naked Mormonism podcast. This is the serial Mormon history podcast. I'm your host, Bryce Blankanagle. Today is Friday, November 24th, 2017. Hope you had a happy Thanksgiving. and thank you so much for joining me.

Today is a special edition episode. We're finally diving into polygamy.

The reason why is we're ramping up for the introduction of official polygamy prior to April of 1841 in Navu.

But before doing so, we have to set the historical stage to understand the world from which Mormon polygamy evolved.

We begin with marriage from the dawn of historical time and skim across the top of major

world of religions throughout most of Britain history to finally arrive at the post-enlightment

Western world filled with small groups of free-love

proto-hippies. This is part one of a multi-part series on Mormon polygamy.

Human sexuality is a powerful force, which drives or governs many of our actions.

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