Part One: Single female ISO single male.
Creative, ambitious, fearless, and passionate professional female seeks a partner with similar values. Ethnicity/race/socioeconomic class is irrelevant. What matters is a dedication to making the world a better place. I do prefer no baggage and no children from a previous relationship. Although we both may have parents with traditional values, they understand that our lives may look different from theirs and they will not pressure us to get married or have children before we are ready. You are not constrained by religion but neither are you cynical. You are as independent and free-spirited as I am, yet interested in a monogamous relationship. Together we can do more than we ever could on our own, and we thrive in each other’s company. We travel together, but we also maintain a home base near to our friends and family. I do not own property but intend to one day after saving enough money of my own and establishing my career.
Part Two: Mosuo female ISO walking marriage
As our culture is threatened by the hegemony of the nuclear family model, we need to maintain our traditions. I am a Mosuo woman with two children who is currently seeking partnership in the form of a traditional walking marriage. I own a sizeable piece of property including fertile farmlands across many acres, as well as livestock. My maternal family has remained entrenched in our community. I take regular trips to Lijang, have several thriving businesses, and have no interest in a marriage relationship. You are a strong, physically fit, energetic, sexually active man of any age who is simply interested in enjoying our time together with no strings attached.
Part Three: Compare/Contrast
The Mosuo model of “walking marriage” is unlike any other, different not only from other Himalayan or Chinese societies but also other societies across the globe and throughout time. Yet the Mosuo “walking marriage” bears striking resemblance to the modern and sexually liberated concept of sexual relationships that do not take place within the confines of the established patriarchal norms. As Coontz (2005) points out, “as both a social institution and a personal experience, marriage has changed more in the past 30 years than the preceding 3,000 years,” (Coontz, 2005, p. 1). These changes have taken place predominantly in Western/technologically advanced societies. Many of these changes are starting to resemble the Mosuo model, which...
References
Coontz, S. (2005). The evolution of matrimony.
Kingdom of Women: The Matriarchal Mosuo of China
Stockard, J. E. Marriage in Culture
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