Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast, LDS Discussions

Edition. It's February 13th, almost Valentine's Day. I'm not sure if that's a yuck or a yum

for today's episode, probably a yuck. But today we're going to cover a really important topic.

The topic is, did Joseph Smith have sex with his plural wives?

And this is important for a number of reasons. We just did an episode with responding to

Mormon historian and apologist Keith Erickson, where he tried to make the argument that

many, many of Joseph's polygamous marriages,

especially the polyandrous ones,

or where the women were already married to other men,

that he did not have sex with them.

It's just a typical apologetic Mormon tact

to try and minimize or downplay Joseph Smith's of plural marriage or polygamous sex

while not acknowledging at the same time that every other prophet and apostle

and man called a polygamy until polygamy ended around 1910 or

1915 they were all having sex

with their plural wives and having babies

why would Joseph be any different but that's

getting ahead of ourselves here but the reason

why today is really important is we are

going to bring the receipts we're going to

go through all I don't know 34-ish

of Joseph Smith's wives and we're going to go through all, I don't know, 34-ish of Joseph Smith's wives, and we're going to give a rating, a red, a green, or a yellow rating for whether or not we think it's pretty certain that Joseph Smith had sex with those poor wives, probable or likely, but not certain, or we have good information

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