Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29602226-20160825225553/@comment-24851346-20160829035935

I think from a pure logistics standpoint Harems are very common. By Harem, we should define, meaning from Two to any other plus number of Wives, or Lovers.

Now the Order we can assume enforces strict Monogomy on its followers, One Husband, One Wife (and maybe they are also cool with Gay people in which case One Husband, One Husband, or One Wife, One Wife), and this is the majority religion in the world, or so we're told.

However, we have a large number of different Sentient Species in the MGE world. Lets break them into a few different categories.

-Divine (Gods, Angels, etc.)

-Demons

-Humans and Demihumans

-Beastmen

-Monsters (Dragons, Chimera, etc)

-Plantgirls

-Elementals

-Other (Undead, Artificial Races; Golems, etc.)

And that's being brief. Now, perhaps before the current Demon Lord messed with the Formula Plantgirls and Elementals would have been considered sexless, and not part of the ration, Undead would be male and female, but being incapable of procreation they wouldn't be counted, and Artificial races would also be sexless. Monsters would be unable to cross-breed, and we can assume they'd have a fifty-fifty gender split anyway.

So, on the races that can count as the Sentient Population, we have Humans and Demihumans, Divine, Demons, and Beastmen. Beastmen would have a skewed gender ration given Harpies and Lamia and such were always monogendered, but otheres like Minotaurs and Werewolves would likely have an equal split, with perhaps some all-male races making up the difference. Divine we only thus far have evidence have always been female, but before the current era there was likely less cross-breeding, or only enough to be minimal, and would still have likely produced both male and female children, keeping the gender ratio from being too skewed. And of course Humans and Demihumans would have a fifty-fifty split. Demons could have been like Humans, or like the Divine

Now look at the current situation. Male species have gone extinct for the majority of species. Monsters and Beastmen are now wholly Female, Plantgirls and Elementals are now all female and can procreate and marry, things like the Undead and Golems can also bear young, and seek partners. Demons are of course all female, and the Divine and many Demihumans have been corrupted meaning in many instances they only bear female offspring, along with all they aforementioned races.

This means that men now only exist amongst the Humans and Demihumans, men that are necessary to procreation. The Divine don't add too much to the equation, as we can assume they are so long lived they don't need to procreate often if at all, however every other Race is wholly female looking for men to procreate, and whose pairings won't replinish the stock of men in the world.

Mathematically this means ever since the Demon Lord has take power, the ratio of Women to Men has only been increasing, and will only increase until the 'bearing men' problem is fixed. In fact, its because of this fact the Chief Diety and the Order Maintain Monstergirls are evil, they are still going to wipe out all life on the planet. They are just going to do it by not giving birth to any men over the course of several generations.

Now, it's hard to have a good read on what the exact ratio of Women to Men is in the world currently. We are led to believe Humans and Demihumans are the most numerous races in the world, so that's good for the ratio of men. But we have literally hundreds of different entries for species who are entirely female seeking men. Complicating matters- perhaps the situation could be contained with every Monster Couple also having a Human or uncorrupted Demihuman Wife as well to try to produce  as many Sons as they produce Daughters. Unfortunately most Monsters instincts are to rape women into Monsterdom, making them incapable of producing Sons, and the Order definitely wouldn't approve of it otherwise. Though I like to think in a lot of Monster Friendly states it's an open secret that the Husband sometimes bangs the brains out of the Family Kobold.

Anyway, lets just say that we currently have a ration of two women to every one man, taking together all the different sentient species out there (possibly discounting divine races like Angels who don't really need to bother with Procreation). In that scenario, even in the best case, every Women would have to settle for Bigamy. Now of course there are other factors at play, namely demographics. Human and Demihuman peoples are largely clumped together. And those societies should reasonably have a fifty-fifty gender split amongst their species. Monster Societies however, while some are integrated in Human and Demihuman society, largely live on its outfringes, meaning they have to do a lot of work to earn a husband. And also importantly Monsters are depserate and not picky. Getting a Husband is the No. 1 priority for them, and young, old, strong, incapable, doesn't matter to them. Thankfully this helps with the Gender Ratio, they aren't necessarilly targeting the young attractive men most Human and Demihuman women would be looking to marry, creating just a little less competition.

Anyway, the gist of it is that Humans and Demihumans are likely to pair off 1-to-1. And for a lot of Monsters that's probably the ideal too. But considering how much scarcer men are for them, and how men are in such greater demand that can't possibly be the reality. Supply and Demand. The simple economics of it must be that to get a man, a Monster must be willing to share, and can't be picky in regards to whether a mans taken or not. Strong Monsters, like Dragons and Lilim probably could snag a man all by themselves, hunting in more Man-rich areas and fighting off any potential rivals. But probably for your standard Monster you have to settle for Polygamy to get yourself access to a Husband.

Additionally we know Monsters are fundamentally good, so if they believe that it's a necessity to share their Husband (and the Husband approves, and be honest, who wouldn't) and they can get along, it's probably very common, if not the default for Harems among Monsters. We do know at least however they do believe too much can be too much. With Bicorns we know they tend to stop at six, so that's likely the upper limits for most Monsters as well.