This matter of superiority and inferiority must be a central one in Urrasti social life. If to respect himself Kimoe had to consider half the human race as inferior to him, how then did women manage to respect themselves—did they consider men inferior? And how did all that affect their sex-lives? He knew from Odo’s writings that, two hundred years ago, the main Urrasti sexual institutions had been “marriage”, a partnership authorised and enforced by legal and economic sanctions, and “prostitution”, which seemed merely to be a wider term, copulation in the economic mode. Odo had condemned them
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