“Real” Polygamists

In an undeniable signal that it was a slow news day, Reuters is reporting that the HBO series “Big Love” is not unanimously loved by real polygamists in Utah and inspires “emotions from pride to fury”.:

“There’s a certain truth to it,” said Anne Wilde, a 71-year-old widow who was part of a family of plural wives for 33 years.

“Here’s a family of three wives that lives in the community and they just blend into the neighborhood, although they don’t say too much about it.”

But Wilde said she blocks her eyes when scenes get intimate and bridles at the show’s trademark sexual tension, saying it’s too racy for many of the estimated 37,000 fundamentalist Mormons who practice polygamy in Utah and Arizona.

On the next slow news day, Reuters will no doubt be polling what lesbian sex addicts think of the “L-Word” and what people who are really lost on tropical islands think of the ABC hit “Lost.”

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