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===Impact of birth control=== | ===Impact of birth control=== | ||
There is a contraceptive plant native to Talma that's easy to farm, thus providing premodern Talmans with cheap birth control. (We'll call it ''silphium'' in English.) | There is a contraceptive plant native to Talma that's easy to farm, thus providing premodern Talmans with cheap birth control. (We'll call it ''silphium'' in English.) | ||
Some possible consequences of Talman silphium: | |||
*Polygamy was legally recognized in Etalocin cultures, though many people are monogamous. | *Polygamy was legally recognized in Etalocin cultures, though many people are monogamous. | ||
*Premodern Talman culture doesn't have a traditionalist sexual morality (neither does modern Talman culture). | *Premodern Talman culture doesn't have a traditionalist sexual morality (neither does modern Talman culture). | ||
*Equal rights for women has always been an ideal, if not reality, in Talman culture in recorded history. (This is not because of some innate moral superiority of Talmans but largely due to external factors.) | *Equal rights for women has always been an ideal, if not reality, in Talman culture in recorded history. (This is not because of some innate moral superiority of Talmans but largely due to external factors.) | ||