In the 19th century, with far more women than men, articles were written on "What shall we do with our unmarried women"?

Today the plight of the singleton is well known. Virtually every novel by a female author contains a Bridget Jones like character who wants a man. Such novels end happily, but with more women than men - and more gay men than lesbians - in the world, such an outcome is not guaranteed. Another problem which we face is unhappy marriages. Monogamy is difficult and even the most uxorious men can stray, causing much marital disharmony. And women, nearly independent, find it difficult to reconcile the demands of husband, family and work. For women need to work to enable them to get out of the house, meet people and keep them same. Naturally she can get short-tempered with her husband because of this. He, being human, has all sorts of irritating foibles and she, being human, nags him.

The Guru Laura Doyle suggests that women "surrender" themselves. After all, when dancing one partner must lead, the other be led. A woman must trust her hubbie's judgment entirely and give him her wages which he will then re-dole out to her with his generosity. Of course marriage is not a democracy! Of course it is not true that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely! Mrs Doyle's website bustles with testimonies from women who let their husbands do everything for them, saying how good life is.

But ladies - there is only so much one woman can do to serve a man.

Therefore, I give you POLYGAMY! The answer to all of our troubles!

Consider there are not enough men for all the women who want them. I am convinced that a great many ladies would be quite happy to share their men! For there are not many good, sweet and generous men in the world, is it really fair to allow them to be the property of only one person? Of course not! Far better to make him share! It will make him so happy to have lots of women attending to his every need and his happiness will spill over and make YOU ladies happy too - according to Mrs Doyle's theory. And with all of your co-wives, he will be far less tempted to stray, all of these lovely ladies will surely satisfy him!

Plus, your sister wives will be able to take care of him and you can take turns with the children. And more children means that you will be enlarging the future work force of the nation and support the ageing population. Never mind that the country really cannot afford to support large families and the world is over crowded! You will be doing a real service to the future workforce by providing them with extra recruits!

And you will have more time to yourself. You will also have less time with the man you love, but familiarity breeds contempt - or so the soap operas tell us!

If your husband is an abusive man, then you will not incur the full force of his wrath, but it will be spread out among several co-wives! Indeed, that would work perfectly as women with low self-esteem are the most likely to stick with abusive men and they will be the most likely to put up with having co-wives!

So to all you desperate single women, I tell you there are no fairy tales. You will probably never get a suitable man all to yourself and if you do, you will probably never be submissive enough for him. Polygamy is the answer! If a husband of mine wished to take co-wives I would happily let him.

After I had cut his balls off with a rusty knife.