12 forms of marriage that exist in the world in addition to traditional heterosexual marriage

It is hard to imagine a modern society in which all of these forms of marriage would be regarded as normal, and were officially allowed. However, many of them are still there, not only in remote areas of the "third world"! This site contains a selection of examples of how diverse people married life on our planet.

1. PoliandriyaPoliandriya - a form of polygamy. The essence of this form of marriage is that a woman can simultaneously be an ally with several men.
2. LeviratNekotorye forms of marriage does not mean the union of two people and entire families, with it should continue even in the event of the death of the spouse. If levirate man must marry the widowed wife of his late brother.
3. SororatProtivopolozhnost levirate - sororatnye marriages. Such atypical wedding practiced in the communities of the natives of North America and India. The Union sororatnom widowed man shall take his sister in marriage to his late wife.




4. Temporary brakVremennye marriages (or "pleasure marriage") are popular in the Islamic world, especially in Iran. < A man and woman are by mutual agreement for a specified period.
5. Posthumous marriage Some regions are allowed to marry, or marry dead people
6. Sophisticated brakV XIX century American John Humphrey Noyes founded a utopian community called "Oneida". Noyes claimed that in the Bible there is no mention of the existence of traditional marriage in Paradise. Therefore, he urged his followers to practice "complex marriage". < it implies that all members of the "Oneida" were the wives and husbands of each other.
Monogamy and jealousy Noyes called sinful and idolatrous manifestations. Moreover, members of the community to punish all the people who preferred a monogamous relationship.



7. Devadasi in south India young girls are often married off for some deity or temple!
The fate of some of the girls was solved even before they are born. Devadasi had to monitor their appearance, to be beautiful, industrious and educated. Every day, in the morning and in the evening they were dancing and singing, praising their god. Temples in which lived Devadasi, held mainly by donations from viewers.

8. Children Ages brakV such thing as a "childhood" did not exist. Children begin to consider full-fledged members of society about 6 years. The age of majority was increased at 2, 5-3 times much later.
Only in the XVI century, it has created the concept of childhood as a separate stage of life, which lasted from birth to adulthood. However, to marry and to marry 7-year-olds no longer even two hundred years.

9. TunchiPrinyatie of wasp * * sualizma in China remains extremely low. Because of this, most men-n * to have to solve their problems, to marry geterose * sualnymi women.

According to the authoritative Chinese sexologist, to resort to this method, 90% of * * sualistov wasp in the country. The marriage between a man-r * and a woman eat traditional orientation are called "Tunç».




10. Marriage to duhamiChislennost Baule people living in West Africa (mainly in Côte d'Ivoire), up to 1, 5 million people. Its members believe that long before the birth of each person has to enter into marriage with the spirits
The family quarrels between earth Couples often blame Baule spirits spouses jealous or feel unhappy. Spiritual mentors in such cases are advised to cut out a small wooden figure blolo bian or blolo blah, cover it with butter, dress, decorate and bring to the temple. It is believed that it calms spirits spouses and allows you to set in the earth's family peace.

11. Traditional brakiOdnopolye gay marriages in the past were practiced everywhere and considered perfectly normal.

For example, the Emperor Nero married his own eunuch, staging a large-scale wedding.
Practiced same-sex marriages and American Indians (they even existed a belief in the existence of people of the third sex, called "Berdashen"). And representatives of the Mohawk tribe, who lived in what is now Canada, seen in homosexual men finest partners - "extremely diligent and hard-working wives»
12. "Boston marriages" in the United States in the XIX century, practiced the so-called "Boston marriages»: two women lived together, being completely independent of the stronger sex
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