Nothing about human sexuality is left to instinct. Every society writes a script — who may partner with whom, at what age, with how much ceremony, and what any of it makes you — and every society experiences its own script as simply the way things are. Put seven ethnographic cases on the same four dimensions and the scripts stop agreeing. Tap a row to read the case; switch dimensions to watch the same society move.
Premarital sex
● solid — well documented◯ hollow — record thin or contestedPositions are relative readings drawn from the ethnographic literature, not measurements.