In the survey “Other Times, Other Customs”, the author explains that there is a enormous variation in human sexual practices, in both the activites that were allowed and the concepts used to make sense of the them. During the course of the survey, the author touches base on four major components of how homosexual behavior, in certain societies, may have been institutionalized. The four components are Age-structured homosexuality, Cross-gender homosexuailty, Role specialized homosexuality, and Egalitarian …showed first 75 words of 861 total…

…showed last 75 words of 861 total…aspect of the egaliatarian sexuality were wealthy men who married several wives. Then, those several wives were free to establish sexual partnership amongst themselves. If all parties were consentual, then I see no obvious problem with those circumstances. However, it is very possible that these women may have become depressed because they had to share the attention. A women deserves all of her lovers attention, and she should not have to share it with anyone.