Some question whether Joseph Smith’s plural marriages included sexuality. The answer is yes or no, depending upon the type of plural marriage. Those that were for this life and the […]

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Joseph Smith was sealed to ten women under that age of twenty. Four were nineteen, three were seventeen, one was sixteen, and two were fourteen. Marriages for young women sixteen […]

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Few things are more confusing to observers than Joseph Smith’s sealings to legally married women. Due to limitations in the number and types of documents available, understanding what transpired is […]

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An overview of Joseph’s practice of polygamy during his last year of life.

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An overview of some things that motivated women to marry Joseph Smith.

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An overview of how Joseph Smith proposed to potential brides.

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An overview of the beginnings of Joseph Smith’s practice of polygamy.

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An overview of the Joseph Smith’s Polygamy Audio series.

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(Kirtland Polygamy, 1835–36)

Joseph entered his first plural marriage, to Fanny Alger, while living in Kirtland. Little is known about this short marriage except that it didn’t turn out well.

During this period, Joseph reported a visitation from the prophet Elijah who gave Joseph the keys to seal marriages through the eternities. Despite the importance of visitation, Joseph Smith apparently did not publicly teach eternal marriage for perhaps six years after he received the authority to perform those ordinances.

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Joseph Smith identified four reasons for the restoration of plural marriage with the fourth being much more important than the others.

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