Mosuo - Wikipedia
Walking marriages
One of the best known aspects of Mosuo culture is its practice of "walking marriage" (走婚 zǒu hūn in Chinese), although this practice remains poorly understood.[15] Walking marriages are the most prominent form of marriage in Mosuo culture; however, it is not unheard of for women in Mosuo culture to marry outside of their culture, therefore participating in marriages other than walking marriages. In a walking marriage, both partners live under the roof of their extended family during the day; however, at night it is common for the man to visit and stay at the women's house (if given permission) until sunrise. Therefore, they do not technically live in the same household, but they are free to visit when granted permission. Children of parents in a walking marriage are not raised by their father. The brothers of the mother (maternal uncles) in the marriage take on the responsibilities of the father since the father isn’t typically around during the daytime. Due to the separation of the father and mother, it is crucial for the uncle(s) to play a large role in the development of the child.[16]
Shih (2010) offers the most sophisticated anthropological account of Mosuo practices of sexual union. "All on-going sexual relationships in Mosuo culture are called "walking marriages." These bonds are "based on mutual affection."[14] "When a Mosuo woman or man expresses interest in a potential partner, it is the woman who may give the man permission to visit her. These visits are usually kept secret, with the man visiting the woman's house after dark, spending the night, and returning to his own home in the morning."[15] After the birth of the child, the man has no moral, cultural, or legal obligation to take care of the child. However, the child will be raised with adequate care and attention. The overwhelming support from the woman's extended family, allows both the man and woman to engage in sexual relations with whomever they please.
General practice
"The Mosuo have large extended families, and several generations (great-grandparents, grandparents, parents, children, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, etc.) live together in the same house. Everyone lives in communal quarters, and there are no private bedrooms or living areas, except for women between certain ages (see the section on "coming of age", below) who may have their own private rooms."[15]
"While a pairing may be long-term, the man never lives with the woman's family, or vice versa. Mosuo men and women continue to live with and be responsible to their respective families. The couple do not share property. The father usually has little responsibility for his offspring."[15] However, this does not mean that men can wipe their hands free of responsibilities and spend every night participating in shenanigans. After work, they are obligated to go home and help raise their nieces and nephews. The children rely on the collective effort of the extended family rather than that of the biological father.[16]
"A father may indicate an interest in the upbringing of his children by bringing gifts to the mother's family. This gives him status within the mother's family, while not actually making him part of the family."[15]
Matrilineal society
Unlike other cultures, women in the Mosuo society dominate the household and family. They are responsible for housework, agricultural duties, and taking care of children. In a walking marriage, the ancestral line is most important on the wife's side of the family and the children of the couple reside and belong to the wife's family household.[15] Considering women are responsible for most domestic jobs, they have a larger role in the walking marriage and are viewed with more respect and importance in this society.[17]
Husbands in walking marriages have a much less involved role than wives. The husbands in these relationships are generally the figures who are in charge of all religious and political decisions for the family.[18] Regarding the family responsibilities, the father or husband in the family does not have nearly as many responsibilities regarding the family as the wife does. In fact, the male relatives of the mother's side of the family, such as uncles and cousins, are generally the "father figure" to the husband's children.[19] The mother's brothers occupy the central role in the household. Their roles include disciplining children, caring for them, and supporting the children financially.[19] Since the husband and wife live with their separate immediate families, they help take care of the families' children and issues regarding their household. Even though fathers are involved in their sister's children's lives, they are not necessarily involved in their biological children's life. In walking marriages, the involvement of a father in his child's life is optional.[19] If a father decides to be involved in the upbringing of his own biological child, he can bring gifts and help with work around the woman's household. This relationship can be performed regardless if the woman and man are still in the walking marriage and it gives the man a type of "official status" among the family without being fully involved.[20]
Advantages to a walking marriage
Other than the child receiving exceptional care and attention from the extended family, there are many inconspicuous advantages for participating in a walking marriage. For example: divorce is never an issue because the man and woman are not legally bound together, thus sharing very few of the same responsibilities. There are also never any disputes over who owns custody of the child since the child belongs to the mother's extended family and takes the mother's last name. In the case of a parent's death, the child still has a prodigious amount of care and affection from the extended family.[14]
Myths and controversies
Outsiders often believe the following myths:
Mosuo women have many partners
"While it is possible for a Mosuo woman to change partners as often as she likes, few Mosuo women have more than one partner at a time. Anthropologists call this system "serial monogamy." Most Mosuo form long-term relationships and do not change partners frequently.[4] Some of these pairings may even last a lifetime."
But, in other anthropologists' views, it is a more recent change, "in the face of political campaigns and cultural integration with the Han Chinese", and "previous generations often continued with multiple partners even after a child was born. Some older Na report having upwards of 30, 40, even 50 partners throughout their lifetime"[14] and despite these changes, "notions of exclusivity are not entrenched, and the Na language has no word for 'jealousy'." [14]
Fathers of children are commonly not known
"The large majority of women know their children's fathers; it is actually a source of embarrassment if a mother cannot identify a child's father.[14] But, "unlike many cultures which castigate mothers and children without clear paternity, Na children induce no such censure".[14] The father of a child born from a walking marriage will not see his child during the day, but rather at night time. The father doesn't play as large a role in the development of the child. "At a child's birth, the father, his mother and sisters come to celebrate, and bring gifts. On New Year's Day, a child visits the father to pay respect to him and his household. A father also participates in the coming-of-age ceremony. Though he does not have an everyday role, the father is nevertheless an important partner."
Cliffs:Basically single motherhood, cuckoldry and women can be whores with whoever they want, pre-industrial edition. This is what the west is turning into but with Tinder.
If you look at all societies that are "matriarchies" like this one and some shithole tribal societies, you will find that what they have in common is that paternity doesn't matter and men are cucks. It proves the blackpill true, give women power and the first thing they will do is unleash the sexual practices they were always predisposed to engaging in regardless of how it affects men and children, and of course it all hinges upon cucks who are still dishing out violence in these matriarchal cultures because women are weak. Of course, this example happens in an undeveloped subsistence agriculture society that never achieved anything and is so geographically isolated in the mountains and jungles of Southeast China nobody even bothered to go and fuck them up after thousands of years.
Apparently Mosuo men have no formal jobs and spend their days mostly preparing for visits to their wives, JFL this is going to be our society in a few decades, except only Chads will be in jobless and in "walking marriages" with dozens of single mothers, all other men will be cucked wageslaves with no freedoms that women can have arrested and held in a cell without trial. Just lol the fathers don't even raise the children in this degenerate culture, only the mothers, with cuck males who aren't even the dad stepping in to raise the kids of their sisters and female cousins. When this comes to the West we are so atomised we'll have no simp families to take care of "baby mommas", so they will just tax all sub-8 males like they are doing now to pay for the walking marriage babies.
Xi Jinping, if you are reading this, please have the PLA go into the village these fucking people live in and raze it, I am disgusted that humanity is allowed to exist in such a degenerate state in more corners of the world than just the West. I understand how Christian Spaniards felt when they first came to Mexico and saw human sacrifice. These people are savages and need to be brutalised by a more based culture. Also stop putting based Muslims in camps you faggot
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