Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site caip.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!caip!heffel%shogun.DEC From: heffel%shogun.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: single sex societies Message-ID: <300@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 16:37:49 EST Article-I.D.: caip.300 Posted: Wed Oct 30 16:37:49 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 07:18:33 EST Sender: daemon@caip.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 25 From: heffel%shogun.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM (Tracey Heffelfinger Dtn:354-7431 GSO/F5) Years ago I read "Virgin Planet" by Poul Anderson(I believe). It featured an all female society that perpetuated itself by Parthenogenisis. I don't remember much about it because it's been years since I read it. Anybody else notice that all the examples given so far have been all female societies?? Of course as soon as I typed that, I thought of an all male example. In Andre Norton's Witch World series there was a race of men (who name involved hawks somehow) that raided villages for women. These women were kept until they had a child. If the child were female, both were allowed to go back home. If the child were male, She was kept for 4 years to raise the boy. At the end of 4 years, the mother went home and the son stayed with the men. "I do nothing in particular but I do it very well." --W.S. Gilbert Tracey Heffelfinger Digital Equipment Corp. Greenville, S.C. UUCP:{allegra|decvax|ihnp4|ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-raven1!heffelfinger ARPA:heffelfinger%raven1.dec@decwrl.arpa