concubinage

France has the legal status of living in concubinage, so man and concubine.

The also had concubinage contracts, probably with at least one-to-many, maybe many-to-many.

Confucian norms allowed for concubinage and sororate marriages.

Once the Christian church turned against concubinage and extra-marital relationships in general, the demand for slaves disappeared, reducing the incentive to raid and thus the incidental production of economic slaves.

At most they were fertility and healing, but like I said, marriages weren't about fertility (they even had concubinage contracts, for how children outside marriage will receive resources).

And America loves you if you're Kurdish, but if you're a Yezidi woman they'll prosecute you for being a sex slave (forced concubinage to Da'esh apparently counts as material support of terrorism).

We use to saw them through a Christo-latin prism, ignoring the fact that they had concubinage contract, could divorce at the initiative of the woman, who get her dowry back in that case.

> giving men alternatives Just a nitpick, but prostitution, concubinage, burlesque shows, etc.

They definitely target what were probably higher class citizens - concubinage was legally recognized, inheritance was one of the main targets of penalties, ranking of politicians was determined by their number of children, and so on.

As I understand it, succession to the sultanate was usually not by primogeniture as much as from the set of candidates, including other ethnicities in the Osmanli family, with much concubinage there would be all kinds of races.

For some senior male politicians in China this seems not to be about Peng personally, but about protecting the continued practice of concubinage for the political top of the CCP; something that is exemplified by Chinese state media essentially ignoring the allegations of sexual abuse.

In this case, "undesirable" was effectively determined to mean Chinese women, whom were disproportionately involved in prostitution and concubinage for reasons the Wiki gets into.

Concubinage was an exception because in economic terms it is a form of consumption rather than investment.

Concubinage, harems and the like were quite common.