Dr. Antium Minosyan’s view on polygamy,  "Yerevan Psychotherapeutist Calls for 
Polygamy in Armenia," which appeared in the January 9, 1999 issue of TAR Int’l, 
deserves more than one response.  Mr. Berj Zamkochian’s January 23, 1999,  Letter to the 
Editor, was well founded, but there are a few things I would like to add.


During Hitler’s climb to power, besides establishing extermination camps, the Nazis also 
established breeding centers.  These centers were stocked with select German women for 
the purpose of breeding superior German stock--much the same as in animal husbandry.  
Officers of high military rank as well as elite military personnel were given the liberty of 
cohabiting with these women for the purpose of sport as well as for procreation.   
Fortunately, twelve years after fascism took hold in Germany,  the extermination camps 
and the breeding centers, along with Hitler and his ungodly Nazi regime, were all 
destroyed.  It is therefore sad, if not tragic, that after what the world has seen regarding 
the Nazis and their desperate, despotic efforts toward building a 1,000 year Reich, that we 
should have a Dr. Antium Minosyan, Yerevan’s leading psychotherapeutist advocating 
polygamy for the purpose of improving Armenia’s gene pool and bettering Armenia’s 
demographics.    


To begin with, it demeans women by primarily making them breeding stock.  
Furthermore, it destroys the family unit by destroying the opportunity for moral parenting.  
Of course, if such a state were to take charge of Armenia’s citizen’s sex lives, they would 
probably have to issue profile numbers for each woman involved and reproduction 
profiles for each eligible male.


According to the article, the good doctor does not believe that polygamy would have a 
negative effect on Armenian women.  He further believes that polygamy would do away 
with divorces along with male adultery.  Morally deficient, to say the least.  Of course, 
polygamy would do away with divorces since it would also be doing away with good 
old-fashioned parenting.  And, no doubt, it would also do away with male adultery 
because fornication would be automatically reclassified as an act of patriotism.


If the article is true and if Minosyan is Yerevan’s Chief  Psychotherapeutist, then 
Armenia will have a lot more to worry about if any of this man’s debased ideas take hold.  
And without shame, he goes on to state, "As a matter of fact, my wife shares this view 
and moreover she’s aware of my love affairs,"  One would wonder why in the world they 
ever got married in the first place.   And if they are fortunate enough to have children, one 
would also have to wonder if they’re his.


As for myself, I don’t believe I would like to live in a country which gives its government 
the power to legalize immorality.  And if, as Dr. Minosyan states, 95% of Armenia’s 
husbands are adulterous, I would beg that they find more virtuous ways through economic 
opportunity, through religion, through education, and through strong family values to 
replace the despotism that Stalin’s Communism spawned throughout the late Soviet 
Union.  


Good or bad, I suppose the only positive thing we can say about Dr. Minosyan is that he’s 
for both "pro choice" and "pro life."  


Joseph Vosbikian