In a 2013 paper published in the journal Evolutionary Anthropology, ‘Choosy But Not Chaste: Multiple Mating in Human Females’, Scelza lists a few other places in which women have more than one partner. The Mosuo of China, one of the few societies in the world in which women head households and property is passed down the female line, practise what is known as ‘walking marriage’. This allows a woman to have as many sexual partners as she likes. The lover of her choice simply comes to her room at night and leaves the next morning. What sets the Mosuo apart is that men traditionally don’t provide
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