"Marriage for pleasure"

We had to go talk to a local expert this week to learn more about religious customs and traditions. Very informative. Learned that it's ok in this religion to have up to four wives. The man said that the case is usually that "you might have a good wife that you love very much, but she cannot bear you children. You don't want to get rid of her, so of course you will want to take another wife to give you children." Those marriages are "permanent marriages." The other kind of marriage is "for pleasure," which you enter into without an official contract for a pre-set duration, "maybe only five minutes, or maybe many years," because "it's not right to have premarital relations." It doesn't count against the maximum of four wives and the man is not financially responsible for the woman. These guys sure have developed a convenient system. By the number of those sunken cars (see earlier related post) at the beach by my flat, I guess this place is kind of like Vegas, except hotter, dirtier and without the romance of drive-thru wedding chapels.

Oh - and sorry for the lack of pics recently, I'm running out of new things to see and I'm pretty sure you don't want shots of the weird knobs on my walls up near my ceiling that I have yet to figure out. I'm going to turn them one day when I get up the guts - maybe my last day.