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Answer by Gwydion Madawc Williams:

Exceptions to what?  Almost any rule, you can find someone who does not follow it.
 
In most of Europe, westerly winds prevail, and the West End of a city is more favoured and richer.  But in the wider world, that is not so.
 
Most pre-industrial societies were dominated by land-owning aristocrats.  But not China, which evolved a Civil Service chosen by competitive exam.
 
Most peoples in the ancient world worshiped many gods, but not the Jews and Zoroastrians.
 
Most ruling dynasties were overthrown after a few decades or centuries, but not in Japan.

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Answer by TR Livesey:

Slaves were legally considered property, so the owner was free to do with their slaves as they pleased. There was a definite market for sex slaves, quadroon and octoroons that were passable.

As far as someone else raping a slave owned by someone else, ordinary property laws would apply: the other person could be held liable for any damages that the owner could prove in court.

According to diarist Mary Chesnut, relations between male owners and his slaves was not uncommon, that you could see their masters faces in all the mulatto children. She complained bitterly that Northern women has no idea of how terrible slavery was, since they did not live in humiliated silence like Southern women did.

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In India, a host of flirtatious mannerisms is captured under the umbrella term of ‘nakhra’ or ‘nakhre’, essentially meaning tantrum, but in a playful and pouty way. The Japanese have their love for all things ‘kawaii’ or adorable.  I want to see if we can build a visual list that serves as the best source for these types of playful and sexy faces and mannerisms.

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Democratic leaders in the Statehouse are encouraging their Republican counterparts to drop the marriage amendment and focus on other issues.

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‘In Germany and the Netherlands, for example, incarceration rates per capita are nearly 90 percent lower than in the U.S.: 79 per 100,000 residents in Germany and 82 per 100,000 residents in the Netherlands, compared to 716 per 100,000 residents in the United States.’

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Answer by Eivind Kjorstad:

Because women in general, and particular their sexuality, is still treated as property. Subconsciously perhaps. One example suffice:

Consider the symbolism of a traditional “western” wedding. The male partner asks her -parents- for her hand in marriage. Meanwhile, the female partner does not need to ask the parents of the man for his hand — because he, unlike her, is considered to be owning himself. 

Luckily this tradition is falling out of favour, but we’ve still got this:

The groom stands at the altar, by himself, waiting. Then the bride arrives. She may be veiled and wrapped, like a present. She is led to the altar by her father. The father then “gives her away” to the groom. Her owner has now changed, prior to the wedding she was “owned” by the father, now she is “owned” by the husband.

The most important part of this new property of his, is her sexuality. He’s told explicitly that he is now allowed to kiss the wife.

It’s not the wife who says: “Kiss me!”. It’s not the priest who says: “You may now kiss the groom”, no it is the *male* which is given permission, by a third party, to take possession of that which is the core of his newly acquired wife: her sexuality.

This charade continues; to “consummate” the marriage, to “really” make it count, he must then have intercourse with his wife. Otherwise, it doesn’t count, in some jurisdictions this intercourse even holds legal meaning as a marriage where it does not happen can be considered void. Ideally, she should be a virgin, because anything else would imply that she’s been giving what rightfully belongs to her father and then her husband to some other male — and she’s not entitled to do that.

People rarely think of the inherent symbolism of rituals such as these. Yet I do, and I *cringe* every time I see a woman being “given away” — and I would have REFUSED to allow such a ritual at my wedding. When I married my wife, we walked in hand in hand, together, as equals, and the official conducting the ceremony refrained from saying anything about kissing. We *did* kiss, but of our own free will, and as equals.

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