What were the point of concubines back in the dynasties?

Question

What were the point of concubines back in the dynasties?

Answer 1

Kings would keep concubines to provide them with sexual pleasure, and with more children.  A king could never have too many women or too many children.  Occasionally a concubine could rise to a position of power, as was the case with the Empress Wu in China in the 600s, she started as a concubine and worked her way up to ruling China single-handed for many years.

Answer 2

It was the same as having a girl friend, mistress, or having a long-term affair with somebody the person was not married to.

Answer 3

s*x.

Answer 4

Concubinage is the state of a woman or youth in an ongoing, quasi-matrimonial relationship with a man of higher social status. Typically, the man has an official wife and, in addition, one or more concubines. Concubines have limited rights of support from the man, and their offspring are publicly acknowledged as the man's children, albeit of lower status than children born by the official wife or wives; these legal rights distinguish a concubine from a mistress.

Answer 5

to help with bordem mayhaps

Answer 6

the concubines were simply there to offer a man pleasure. She did not necessarily have to be marritally bound to him.

Answer 7

I think it was part culture and part of how rich the man was.

Answer 8

I reckon that whoever is asking this question is not subject to the same urges that I am.

Answer 9

men of power want more than one woman...so they took slaves, and made them have s*x with them as wel as their wife/wives.