Hey, in some cultures pornography is encouraged, and in others sex is taught by example at around puberty, before marriage is even allowed to take place.
Hey, um, which cultures. I, uh, suspect you're making that up or something, and, uh, am definitely not planning to join them.
Haha, I'll pull out my human sexuality textbook and report back sometime this week. If I start fealing zealous it might even be tonight.
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Lets see... marriage ceremony of 20,000 couples simultaneously...
The christian-sanctioned rape tha happened before St. Augustine (they should have commited suicide was the justification)...
More judeo-christian oddities...come on, I know there are other cultures...
India has 80%+ disproval of having children out of wedlock, iceland has less than 5% disapproval
of 185 surveyed countries, 155 traditionally allow more than one female mate (and are legally recognized)
a different study, Of 853 preindustrial societies, 84% allowed more than one wife.
King Solomon had a harem of a thousand wives, watched over by castrated men
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Polyamory (casual sex or group marraiges of multiple men and women)...
Everyone is married (all men are married to all women) in Oneida (new york) from 1848 to 1881
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maybe a different section...
I submit, It's not in the book. Now that I think about it, the teacher probably said it separately, along with his experience in... damn it all I can't remember. The gist was that they would pay specific people to train teens how to have sex. Then the ideal mate was the one who had the better sex teacher, rather than the most fit one.