Men have been trying to control women's sexuality for about 5000 years.
With the rise of agriculture and patriarchy, women, as breeders, needed to be confined to one man. That way he could be sure that the goods he accumulated personally (as opposed to tribal belongings as earlier) would be passed down to his own bio children, ahem, sons.
Before this current state of affairs, humans lived in tribes. The children belonged to, and were raised and nurtured and fed, by the tribe. So, no women needed to choose a male sex partner based on his economic status, and dependability to be around when she was in a vulnerable, pregnant or lactating state.
There is a huge amount of literature, especially Jewish and Christian, that supports the fact that men spent and are spending a lot of time reducing women's power, calling women's sex drive evil, trying to curtail it, trying to get women to belong to just one man, while men were encouraged to have more than one wife, for their own sexual release and to provide them with more bio sons.
Finally in the late 19th century, with Queen Victoria's help, culture somehow convinced women they had NO sex drive, only men did, and so to do her wifely duty to her husband, God, and country, she best lie back, get fucked and get pregnant. Women repressed their sex drives so much they became ill. Doctors had to step in with fingers and vibrators to give women "hysterical paroxysms," aka orgasms. The husbands just quickly fucked their wives and went to whores for "kinkier" stuff, like fellatio or cunnilingus.
Nowadays, women are rediscovering their sex drives! We can have raging sex drives that can't be satisfied by one male partner. We can have a couple dozen orgasms to a man's one or two. We can have sex more than once a day. We can remain unmarried and still have children if we want. We have reliable birth control that can prevent exhausting pregnancies and child rearing responsibilities.
We do not depend as much on one man to provide for and protect us and our children, since we are making a bit more money. Plus the state (like tribes of old) can help provide food and shelter for us and our children when our incomes can't cover it all. Courts are better at tracking down deadbeat dads to support the children they spawn.
So... that is the background, as I see it, to the modern polyamory movement, which benefits women greatly.
Goodness knows, I am SO much happier now than when I was married, monogamous and faithful to one man. He was a guy who wanted sex almost daily, but he was so jealous and controlling of my desires for others (although I never cheated, I did get crushes) that I became less desirous of him for years at a time, since his jealousy and possessiveness were so unattractive.