**Submission**
My scenario is about a polygamist community in some distant, isolated, fictional location cut off from the rest of the world. A relatively small and very religious group of families settled in this remote village hundreds of years ago and today these people remain independent from and largely ignored by the outside world. (Please note everything about this story is fictitious- the “religion” mentioned in the text is fictional, as are the characters and the scenario)
A documentarian becomes interested in this little-known corner of the planet and decides to focus his next film on one indigenous family in particular: The Potters. There was Frank Potter, his first wife Norma, his second wife Kim (whom he married three years after Norma), and finally Brooke who entered the picture just a few months after Kim.
Their people had always practiced polygamy because in their religion it is encouraged to reproduce and birth as many new lives as one possibly can. However years of isolation in a culture that encouraged excessive procreation caused an unintentional mixing of the gene pool that, over centuries, made ¾ of the tribe’s women infertile.
Therefore, in modern times, polygamy wasn’t necessarily a religious tenant in itself but was rather a necessity to continue the population because only ¼ of women were able to reproduce. Consequently, it was decreed that every man would need to marry 3 infertile women of his choice, and only then would his family be assigned a wife capable of breeding. Infant girls were tested at birth for the fertility gene, and if they tested positive, they were reared separately from the general population to ensure their chastity and overall health until they could enter an arranged marriage at 18 as a husband’s 4th wife, or his 8th, or 12… the law required one breeder for every three infertile wives.
The Potters, as you may have realized at this point, have reached the three women cusp. Frank and the three Potter women were elated to welcome Trudy into their home about ten months ago. Shortly after her arrival, Frank was able to successfully impregnate Trudy and the documentarian was invited to film what the Potters promised was their religion’s very interesting birthing ritual….
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