I’m not so sure about that. I read the article. These folks are freaks. I wouldn’t say more acceptable.
What I do think is that society assumes that this is what polygyny is all about (cult leaders, abuse and torture).
Not in my experience at all.
I have talked to plenty of people about polygamy and encountered the conflating from people repeatedly. This includes from the degenerate dirbags that do the rebranded swinger come poly thing.
When I was looking for my second wife and went through a few in person relationships, we thought we would go to a few social gathering of "poly" types to see if there was any potential for a peer group.
Mistake.
They legitimately did not get that no...my wife and girlfriend were not open to being propositions and I hope you are open to sifting you waste for your teeth...oh, uhm...no lady I am absolutely not open to shenanigans with you while your husband watches .
They legitimately did not get that it was not about whatever sex related crap they had in their pointy heads and that no it was not about being a narcissistic attention seeking douche or some sort of creepy cuckold scenario.
When non creeper types would meet my girlfriends and then my new wife when she came into our lives, I encountered the same assumption I mentioned originally....oh, you are not talking about swinger stuff...just family stuff and living a wholesome life? Yeah, sure I guess... and then interest lost.
All of the mono people knew all about the degenerate blather and beyond being titillating to them it was not surprising or unusual or anything of the nature. In fact, I have gotten the decided impression that many of them had fantasies of living that sort of hedonistic lifestyle. Only without God awful ugly and unappealing people. Have you seen "poly" types?
I swear they confirm the spiteful mutant theory by Dutton and Woodley.
Point being that nobody seemed bothered by the creepy crap at all. With plain old polygyny it has mostly been disbelief or disinterest. That says to me tacit acceptance of the freaks. Certainly never had anyone react with disgust when they thought that we were perverts. The closest I got to push back was some retarded feminist type who was incensed at the idea of me having sexual access to more than one woman but my wives not having sexual access to other men. Meaning that the repulsive moo was another bloody degenerate.
Maybe others have different experiences but we seem to be the odder ducks in the pornofied modern world from what i have encountered