- their doors are never closed nor locked, except when they are copulating
- they only have two words in pravic for sex: copulate or rape
- they sleep in communitary bedrooms
- the word "work" is the same as "play" in pravic language
- there is no possessive pronoun in pravic language (for instance, they say "the mother" instead of "my mother")
- their labour is rotative
- the one who summarized anarres society's ideals was a woman, named laia asieo odo, and their followers are called "odonians"
- the noun "profiteer" is used to curse someone
- their water taps do not flow continuously as long as someone is using it -- it shuts off within a few seconds
- they are all vegetarians (probably because there are no animals on their planet - except from fish, which they eat)
- the pravic language was conceived without any cursing words - so the youngs import them from the iotic language: damn, hell (though they don't know exactly what they mean, for in their society there is no such thing as blasphemy or religion)
- they consider the planet where they came from, urras, as their moon. and urrasti people consider annares their moon
- partnership to odonians is a voluntary constitued federation like any other - "so long as it worked, it worked, and if it didn't work it stop being"
- to odonians, a promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. if no direction is take, if one goes nowhere, no change wil occur. in this way, the promise, the vow, the pledge, the fidelity are essential in the complexity of odonian freedom
- they have no law, no limit, no penality, no punishment, no disapproval applied to any sexual practice of any kind, except the rape of a child of woman
- molestation is extremely rare in their society, where complete fulfillment is the norm from puberty on, and the only social limit imposed on sexual activity is the pressure in favor of privacy
- the circulation in anarres is free; therefore the amount of letters is very small
- they do not shave at all, meanwhile the urrasti people, men and women, all shave - including their heads
- genuine, open forwardness about sex is something their culture encourages - which avoids pointless dating mind-games and unconsented sex
nov 3 2012 ∞
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