• jaspersgroove@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Yes but on the surface at least they also insist on monogamy or at the very least serial monogamy. Free love is typically more of a polyamorous movement.

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        1 year ago

        I actually know of one guy from an extremely religious family that married his brother’s wife when his brother died. I always wondered if it was true love or duty.

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        1 year ago

        That I am less upset about. Kids were a net profit in that time period. For a woman passed the point where she can just get married, with presumably her dowry being depleted, having a kid with the brother meant that she would have a hand in the whole not starving thing.

        I won’t judge people that poor for making hard decisions. Just be glad that no one reading this lives in a world like that.