Different cultures around the world have their own tastes and definitions of what’s normal, some of which are downright inspiring.
In the Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in China, near the border of Tibet lies the ‘Kingdom of Women’.
Due to the small population of the Mosuo community, the people belonging to it are not recognised by the Chinese Government. These people follow unique customs and guard them fiercely. In Mosuo society, marriage is not considered as a great achievement.
Women of the Mosuo tribe don’t marry and take as many lovers as they want. There’s no word for “father” or “husband,” and lovers don’t live together. Instead, when a woman becomes of age, her mother gives her a key to her own dormitory.
From then on, she can begin inviting lovers into her bedroom at night, This arrangement, which is known as a “walking marriage,” can be long-term or last as little as one night. When the couple wants to break up, either the woman stops letting her lover come over, or he just stops coming to see her.
No one is allowed to speak against this practice. If a woman gets pregnant, no one is bothered to ask about the father of the child. Also, fathers are not responsible for looking after their children. In Mosuo society, couples do not live together.
Although the tribe’s numbers are dwindling today, records of the Mosuo stretch back to at least 750 BC when the Chinese chronicles named their homeland as nu kuo, or “the realm of women.”
