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Human mating strategies
Human mating strategies: evolved short-term, long-term, extra-pair, poaching, and guarding tactics from sexual strategies theory, varying by sex, mate value, sex ratio, ecology, and culture.
Husband
Husband: a man joined to another person in marriage, a male spouse. From Old Norse husbondi, "master of a house"; also a verb meaning to conserve. Covers earnings, household labor, and legal changes.
Hypergamy
Hypergamy is marrying a person of higher caste, status, education, or income; hypogamy is marrying down. Educational hypergamy (wife less educated) has declined worldwide as women's college attainment reversed the gender gap, making hypogamy now more common in most European countries and rising in the United States.
Incest in the Bible
Incest in the Bible covers the prohibited-relationship lists of Leviticus 18 and 20 and Deuteronomy 27, narratives of Lot's daughters, Judah and Tamar, and Amnon and Tamar, ancient Near Eastern parallels, and the Qur'anic reception in Q 4:22–23.
Infidelity
Infidelity is secret emotional, sexual, or romantic behavior that breaks a relationship's agreed exclusivity; the sexual form in marriage is adultery, a leading cause of divorce and separation.
Interfaith marriage
Interfaith marriage, also called religious intermarriage or mixed marriage, is marriage between partners of different religions; about 26% of U.S. marriages are interfaith, with Islamic and Catholic canon rules and legal restrictions in some countries.
Interfaith marriage in Christianity
Interfaith marriage in Christianity: marriage between Christians of different traditions or between a Christian and a non-Christian; governed by Catholic canon law (mixed marriage, disparity of cult), Orthodox Trullo canon 72, and rising U.S. intermarriage rates.
Interfaith marriage in Islam
Interfaith marriage in Islam covers marriages between Muslims and non-Muslims, governed by Quran 2:221, 5:5, and 60:10. Sunni law permits men to marry Jewish or Christian women but bars the reverse for women; Shia law is stricter, and Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei codify the rules differently.
Interfaith marriage in Judaism
Interfaith marriage in Judaism is marriage between a Jew and a non-Jew, forbidden under halakha but common among non-Orthodox American Jews. Key facts: 61% of recent U.S. Jewish marriages are interfaith, 2% among the Orthodox; Reform rabbis may officiate, Conservative rabbis are barred.
Interracial marriage
Interracial marriage, also called miscegenation, is marriage across racial or ethnic lines. Banned by U.S. anti-miscegenation laws until Loving v. Virginia (1967); intermarried newlyweds rose from 3% (1967) to 17% (2015).
Interracial marriage in the United States
Interracial marriage in the United States, also called intermarriage, is marriage across racial lines. Banned by state anti-miscegenation laws from 1664 onward, it was legalized nationwide by Loving v. Virginia (1967); approval reached 94% by 2021.
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়)
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (Ishwar Chandra Bandopadhyay) was an Indian scholar, educator, and social reformer of nineteenth-century Bengal whose campaign produced the Hindu Widows' Re-marriage Act of 1856.
Islamic marital jurisprudence
Islamic marital jurisprudence (fiqh of nikāḥ): marriage as a contract (ʿaqd) with mahr, witnesses, and wali, governing talaq, khulʿ, and polygamy, now codified in modern Muslim personal status laws.
Islamic marital practices
Islamic marital practices center on the nikah marriage contract, defined by offer, acceptance, witnesses, and mahr, with stipulations permitted. State laws across Muslim-majority countries regulate polygyny, registration, divorce including khula, and ceremony customs such as the walima.
Jeanette Dousdebes Rubio
Jeanette Christina Dousdebes Rubio (born 1973, Miami) is the wife of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, daughter of Colombian parents from Bogotá and Cali, former Miami Dolphins cheerleader, married Rubio in 1998, mother of four.
Jennifer Flavin
Jennifer Flavin (Jennifer Lee Flavin Stallone), born 1968, American businesswoman and former model, co-founder of Serious Skin Care; married Sylvester Stallone in 1997, three daughters, filed for divorce in 2022 then reconciled.
Jewish wedding
Jewish wedding, the ceremony of kiddushin (betrothal) and nissuin (marriage) in Judaism: ketubah contract, two witnesses, chuppah, ring, Sheva Berakhot, yichud, glass-breaking, and modern egalitarian reform.
JK business
JK business (JKビジネス), from joshi kosei (high school girls), is Japan's umbrella term for schoolgirl services like osanpo walks, JK cafes, and massages that often mask sexual exploitation of minors, regulated by prefectural ordinances.
John Humphrey Noyes
John Humphrey Noyes (1811-1886), Vermont-born Perfectionist minister, founded the Putney and Oneida Communities; his Bible Communist utopia practiced complex marriage, male continence, and stirpiculture before becoming Oneida Ltd. silverware.
Jordon Hudson
Jordon Hudson (born 2001) is an American entrepreneur, pageant contestant, and former cheerleader, known as the girlfriend of football coach Bill Belichick; she manages his personal brand, holds about $8 million in real estate, and drew attention for interrupting his 2025 CBS interview.
Josephine Bracken
Josephine Bracken, full name Marie Josephine Leopoldine Bracken, was the Hong Kong-born companion of José Rizal during his exile in Dapitan, dying in Hong Kong in 1902.
Judith Exner
Judith Exner, born Judith Immoor (1934-1999), an American socialite also known as Judith Campbell, claimed an affair with JFK from 1960 and, from 1988, a courier role between Kennedy and Mafia bosses Sam Giancana and Johnny Rosselli.
Julien Blanc
Julien Blanc, also known as JulienHimself, is an American pickup artist and former Real Social Dynamics instructor whose 2014 seminars sparked a global deplatforming campaign; Australia, the UK, and Singapore denied him visas, and he now coaches personal transformation.
Kathleen Buhle
Kathleen Buhle, American nonprofit executive and author, ex-wife of Hunter Biden (married 1993-2017), author of the 2022 Crown memoir If We Break, founder of The House at 1229, colon cancer survivor, 2024 trial witness.
Kay Adroa
Kay Adroa, second wife of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, a Makerere student daughter of Reverend Adroa, married in Arua in 1966, divorced 1974, found dead August 13, 1974.
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey is a 2022 Netflix four-episode documentary, directed by Rachel Dretzin, on Warren Jeffs's rise and fall in the FLDS, told through ex-member testimonies and his 2011 life-sentence conviction.
Larry Fortensky
Larry Fortensky, American construction worker and Teamsters member, was Elizabeth Taylor's seventh and final husband; they met at the Betty Ford Center in 1988, married at Neverland Ranch in 1991, divorced in 1996, and he died in July 2016.
Lavender marriage
A lavender marriage is a marriage of convenience, typically between two LGBTQ+ people of opposite sexes, contracted to hide their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Legality of polygamy
Legality of polygamy: marriage with more than two spouses is legal to some degree in over 40 countries, mostly Middle East, Africa, and Asia, almost always as polygyny capped at four wives, while criminalized in Western states.
List of Brigham Young's wives
List of Brigham Young's wives: the 55 women sealed to LDS president Brigham Young, also counted as 53, 56, or 59 by other sources; 16 bore his 57 children, with phases from Miriam Works (1824) to Hannah Tapfield King (1872).