[split] Adversary relationships, and the mated pair

[Dtris]

One of the common pattern that can be observed is that.
The structure of 'marriage contract' seems to follow the pattern of paternalistic societies, where in 'women' are seen as among the  'property' owned / controlled by men.

The opinion above is partly due to my observation and fascination on one of the last remaining matriarchal society, namely "Mosuo" society in China.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_l9D7tEixc

There's no marriage in Mosuo society, thus no divorce, they don't even have any word with meanings similar to "Father" in their language. Any children will never asked or even wondered "who is my father".

Female is the head of the family, it is the female who choose which male that they want to 'mate' with, there's no obligation towards the male that he should not mate with any other female and vice versa. The children (regardless of their gender) will always be regarded as a member of the mother's family.

Thus the hypothesis that "Free Love Exchange" will resulted in disaster might actually be not correct.

Iirc there is a LOO session where Ra mentions that there were matriarchal societies in the past which were quite large. Or Maybe that was a different source.

There is certainly more than one method of mating and raising children that will result in a functional society. The relative benefits and drawbacks of each is a relatively unexplored space. We do have some data on the functional benefits of marriage vs the dysfunctional system the west currently has.