In our provincial puddle of spectacular society, it's (almost) never acceptable. But of course we live under the spectre of being mammals with a harem-type arra

In our provincial puddle of spectacular society, it's (almost) never acceptable. But of course we live under the spectre of being mammals with a harem-type arrangement, of chief/king figures and noble figures having many partners for recorded human history, and of the awe males are given for having massive amounts of sex partners. In private society, we encourage our own particular vices and virtues as long as they don't lead to a critical point of instability and dissolution.