Yet another auther who has turned a novel, a work of fiction meant for entertainment, into a promotional speach on gay rights. Some works use this type of thing to support a story or to build the world they are set in but this surprisingly errant section of the story didnt add anything needed. The whole “thirsty” section seemed tacked on and completely detracted from the story. In the authers defence it could be that the auther felt this had to be put in in order to avoid criticism on the world setting, i.e. polygamy, but as his writing never depreciates women down in any way, it doesnt seem very thought out. In fact far from degrading women, it goes so far as to put women in most serious positions of power even within the family units. Still an interesting story and i will be trying the next one, i only hope this was a passing phase of the story.