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18 Post author: handoflixue 24 December 2012 08:31PM

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Comment author: handoflixue 14 January 2013 06:47:00PM 0 points [-]

a society in which "No sex before marriage" is the standard

That seems an unfair comparison, since, as far as I know, there actually ARE quite a few examples of that, both historically and currently. I'm not aware of anywhere near the same level of polyamory-as-standard (it generally seems to be polygamy or some other variant where high status earns you additional mates, rather than the "Bay Area" style of simply dating multiple people)