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Originally Posted by photon
Other women would have 5 husbands to balance everything out.
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there was a neat book by robert a. heinlein called 'the moon is a harsh mistress' that details that based on an unengineered shift towards women becoming precious and supreme in the minds of men due to their rarity, so much that any man seen harassing a woman by a group of men is summarily and immediately chucked out the airlock no questions asked.
a matriarchal society based solely on their future outlook being in the bucket and needing women above all else.
women had 8, 10 husbands and ruled their family units.
as time rolled on and more native-born 'lunies' made up the population and less transplants from earth (who were more or less criminals / prisoners), the shift resulted in communal marriages with rotation sleeping schedules, 8 men 8 women kind of thing.
interesting idea, but in the book it didn't come aboot by some activists and laws, it came aboot from external factors and the need to adapt to survive - by our standards very strange attitudes towards jealousy, towards individual rights, towards on the spot mob rule and everyone being very nice to each other or not lasting too long.