Spare A Moment To Consider The Sexual Burden Of King Solomon, By Anayo M. Nwosu

According to the Bible in 1 Kings chapter 11 verse 3, King Solomon, the son of King David of Israel married 700 wives of royal birth and 300 concubines.

How did he manage? What kind of sex duty roaster did he draw? How did he satisfy his women in fairness and justice?

Assuming that he slept with a wife per day, he could have only covered 365 wives in a year with 335 unattended to and without touching any of the steaming 300 concubines.

Recall also that all the male servants in the king's court were castrated leaving the "doing" for the king alone. They were called eunuchs.

For equity and justice, the wisest man on earth as Bible called him, must have been copulating with his women in the following permutations:

One wife in the morning after breakfast, a concubine in the afternoon and a wife at night. This shall result in the coverage of all the wives and the concubines.

With this arrangement, all the king's women would have at least got one sex ration per year.

This arrangement could not be said to be foolproof.

It would have conferred an advantage on 30 or fewer wives who would have enjoyed more than one lovemaking opportunity with the king per year.

Being that by the 300th day of the year, all the 300 concubines would've had their daily slot each, 65 of them still stood another opportunity of gracing of the royal bed more than others in a year.

Note that there are 365 days in a year.

Just like all sweet things in life for examples: excess wealth, sugar, weight etc, polygamy has its own bad side.

This indulgence in women was very expensive to the people Solomon governed. While God spared Solomon because of God's love for his father David, the governed bore the brunt of Solomon's love for women and its attendant issues.

Solomon embraced the "other room" and forgot his divine duties as a king despite being bestowed with the greatest wisdom any human could ever have.

His love for women caused God to decree the division of the kingdom of Israel into two; the very united country bequeathed to Solomon by his father David.

Really?

So, excessive love or devotion to sex, one's tribe or primordial indulgence at a nation's expense could annoy God and make Him divide a united country into two or more?

It is not the case in Nnewi.

Our traditional ruler married only three wives and his kingdom is not under threat. He has also reigned for 56 years, sixteen years more than Solomon's 40 years.

My Igwe is 92 years old and still very alert.