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The taboo? Yes. I guess the better way to put my position is that the impulse is natural but whether there's an enforced taboo varies by culture. Same with homosexuality and all sorts of other things.
Women I know loathe the idea of a younger second wife (enough that my mom warned me against it lol) and probably always have* but there's no strong taboo yet, since there's a counter-vailing norm for polygamy and many men aren't really inclined to care about the complaints of women.
I don't know if I would go that far in establishing a causal link between this and Western dominance** but I know that there are at least scholars I respect that do (e.g. Joseph Henrich)
* Cross-pollination with the West in the colonial era muddies the waters but I don't think the British invented the sense of grievance I've seen.
** One could argue that Western dominance led to replacing old norms with Western-flavored ones (e.g. like with Christianity)
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