>>The universal, objective rules of society may be up for debate, but the fact that such rules exist is not.<<
I read an anthropology piece once that stated the universal rule of human societies is "Sexual behavior shall not be unregulated." They have all the different rules you can imagine, from "A brother cannot marry his sister" (everyone but ancient Egypt) to "A brother must marry his sister" (ancient Egypt). But nobody breaks that one; nobody has a society with zero sexual rules. So the only people I've seen debating the existence of the rules, or their mustness, are anthropologists and SF writers.
Since I want things like rape to be banned and incest at least discouraged (I'm flexible on the topic of consenting adults) that puts me in camp "Sexual behavior shall not be unregulated."
I have, however, written about societies with all sorts of extremely different rules, and some aliens don't have rules for sex because theirs is like farting or whatever. If all that happens is at a certain time your body automatically releases some gametes, and it's not a social interaction, then you don't need rules for it.
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I read an anthropology piece once that stated the universal rule of human societies is "Sexual behavior shall not be unregulated." They have all the different rules you can imagine, from "A brother cannot marry his sister" (everyone but ancient Egypt) to "A brother must marry his sister" (ancient Egypt). But nobody breaks that one; nobody has a society with zero sexual rules. So the only people I've seen debating the existence of the rules, or their mustness, are anthropologists and SF writers.
Since I want things like rape to be banned and incest at least discouraged (I'm flexible on the topic of consenting adults) that puts me in camp "Sexual behavior shall not be unregulated."
I have, however, written about societies with all sorts of extremely different rules, and some aliens don't have rules for sex because theirs is like farting or whatever. If all that happens is at a certain time your body automatically releases some gametes, and it's not a social interaction, then you don't need rules for it.