What is Harem?
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(n.) a
Sheik Mohammed-izzle-nizzle(1904): I got a harem full o' bitches
Nizzle-wizzle-got-tha-bizzle(2004): I got a stable full o' bitches
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From Arabic harIm (literally "something forbidden") and haram (literally "a sanctuary")
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Still, there are many cases where a group of females linked sexually to one male (or males linked to one female) is referred to as a harem.
Sure, the harem is associated with polygamous sexual relations, but not all of them are based on sex: a woman with a large group of gay male friends could refer to them as her "harem".
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a man's group of ladies
Dude goes to lunch every day with his harem. They follow him everywhere like puppy dogs.
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To quote someone who knows what they're talking about:
"From Arabic harIm (literally "something forbidden") and haram (literally "a sanctuary")"
Although its original meaning was the part of a household reserved for females - including perhaps a man's mother, sisters, and daughters, as well as wife or wives - it is commonly used to mean a group of more than one woman who are all available sexually to a single man. This situation is Polygyny ("multiple women.") Sometimes it also refers to a group of men who are available to a single woman. This situation is Polyandry ("multiple men.") Either may be called Polygamy ("multiple marriage.")
People who think it derives from Latin don't know what they're talking about, which is no great crime - no one knows everything. People who think it derives from Latin and say so on a public forum like this not only don't know that they don't know what they're talking about, but are displaying and perpetuating their ignorance.
"Take a good look at the Good Book - all those Biblical patriarchs had harems."
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(n.) A woman's sacred place, that which a man cannot enter; a nun's vagina; a back in the day term for a stable full o' bitches.
"I'm a nun; you can't get in my harem!"
"That dude has a harem full o' bitches!"
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the clogged hair in your bathtub drain
"yesterday, my spooge got stuck in my pube filled harem"
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Women of a sexual nature from the getto who serviced their man without question. The word comes from the latin language for 'Channel Slut'.
PD- "ShaggyCorman, please come here, I would love to please you with my eager mouth!"
ShaggyCorman- "Oh yeah! Take it you dirty girl, take it all!"