This reminds me of The Neanderthal Parallax, where each individual typically has a man-mate and a woman-mate. They live with their same-sex partner most of the time (the society is sex-segregated for comfort) and their opposite-sex partner for a few days "when two become one." This reminds me of my anthro-cat conworld (by the description you give I mean). Where for legal, cultural & past biological reasons, toms and mollies live in seperate societies, only commoning togethor to keep the species alive. In this conworld, gay relationships are seen as the "real" ones since the het ones aren't able to communicate for much of the year. Though of course, there'll always be outliars.
It would almost have to be marked to avoid that. In human cultures with moeities, the marker can be in names or dress modes or often both. It may affect where you live in a camp or village because they usually have their own "neighborhood" for each moeity. Huh, didn't know about that! (knew moieties were a thing IRL + things aren't the same as worldbuilded in planet O. But not the seperate neighborshoods) Funny enough, in a now abanded idea I had, the marker was surnames just being the name of the moiety.
I would suspect it's more common to merge two couples than build one-by-one. You can get a better fit one-by-one but people tend to look down on it in poly culture here; it's called "unicorn hunting." :/ Yea, that's why I mentioned it. Since from what I get nobody with common sense actually likes unicorn hunting.
There are lots of constructive options for that, and you can find them in books on polyamory here. To which I point out, polyfolk don't have a sex fetish, they have a communication fetish. Yea logically they would. I wonder if being a good speaker is like, a SUPER attrative trait from the start. Also more people need a communication fetish.
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Date: 2024-01-13 06:30 pm (UTC)From:This reminds me of my anthro-cat conworld (by the description you give I mean). Where for legal, cultural & past biological reasons, toms and mollies live in seperate societies, only commoning togethor to keep the species alive. In this conworld, gay relationships are seen as the "real" ones since the het ones aren't able to communicate for much of the year. Though of course, there'll always be outliars.
Huh, didn't know about that! (knew moieties were a thing IRL + things aren't the same as worldbuilded in planet O. But not the seperate neighborshoods) Funny enough, in a now abanded idea I had, the marker was surnames just being the name of the moiety.
Yea, that's why I mentioned it. Since from what I get nobody with common sense actually likes unicorn hunting.
Yea logically they would. I wonder if being a good speaker is like, a SUPER attrative trait from the start. Also more people need a communication fetish.