King Soloman

[iron addict]

Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.

Mark Twain- Letters from the Earth

[strongweapon]

on the defense of soloman---the women were fed, sheltered, and enjoyed every personal freedom afforded to a wife of a king---they had so much more than many---even today

in those days there were many less men than women---men live shorter lives in general, have less resilience to disease than women, and did tend to kill each other quite frequently in battles or just regular old fights

what soloman did was in fact a kindness