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Originally Posted by aklim
How is that different from now? I know you said that a couple of times but I don't quite understand it. Even if I boink your sister in our current situation, don't you have genetic relation to the child being that it is your sister's child and she has genetic relationship to you?
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Correct. But in the Mosuo system, guys don't care about the children their sex partner's have, only the children their sister's have since it is their sister's children they are socially responsible for. Their sex partner's children are the responsibility of her brothers. Hence all the focus in patriarchal systems on sexual control of women to assure paternity by a specific man is unnecessary. In other words, paternity and fatherhood seem to be absent from the Mosuo system. Guys are only uncles, not fathers.