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The Study of Sex and Gender Equality in the 24^th  Century Page 2 (NSFW) What was a common pattern was that Itrean gender equality was very slow and gradual. It often acted as a pendulum swing where society practiced gender equality and then reverted to one gender ruling above the other(s). Sometimes, a community would limit children or allow families to have as many children as possible. This worked at times as planets' overcrowding and dwindling resources sometimes led to conflict, although there is criticism that the Itreans remained stagnant in exploration. The lack of finding new worlds often forced the people to live in overcrowded conditions instead of spreading outward. This was quite common during the ages of “Old Space,” but the Itreans did recognize this situation in time. Eventually, various rules were put into place to either limit children from being born, entitlement to have children due to status, or various exploratory campaigns were put into place to allow the expansion of finding new habitable locations. All this led to a factor in increasing the population safely. There was a general pattern, however. Many of the Itrean species were to encourage evolution by biological means or natural causes. The ability to produce children by giving birth to live young and introducing breasts to lactate supposedly, was unpopular but grew acceptance in the last 211,000 years. The “Fumil and Shin’Fumil” are proud examples of those that avoided evolving their bodies, halting any form of genetic enhancements, continue practice egg-laying, having nests, and being much closer to the original kin of the dinosaurs. The Fumil still lack breasts and feed their children from their mouths, much like the ancient ways. The ancient religion would even later prove to be a DNA marker to help support the fact that they were the original descendants of Earth. Ironically, their ancient religion of 50,000 years ago would help prove vital in proving to humanity that they head a direct DNA line to that of the ancient dinosaurs. The Empire of Jalgren was guilty of implementing laws on reproduction, although, in the beginning, they weren’t brutal with such rules. If anything, it was said that the Emperor Jalgren was a free thinker in the matters of sex. By the time of 31,000 years, the empire did practice various forms of “Free-love.” There had been experiments in various forms of sex practices, including “mate-swapping.” Incest did happen and was honored by some religious practices. In fact, with medical technology, it was actually safe for brothers and sisters to have children together without deformities. Of course, it didn’t always happen, and natural instincts usually drove from much of those acts from happening. Religions, such as the Kerein’Shaltara, were regularly allowed to attend other mateships to participate, assist, have sex, and entertain other mated pairs without persecution. Of course, mateship was treated very seriously. This was profound by many of the clans even before the empire and all the way through its age. To cheat on another could result in the death of the cheating mate. You could only have one female and one male be with one another. Homosexuality and Bisexuality were treated as a disease at the beginning of the Empire, but Jalgren believed in having everyone work together. He abolished rules limiting such acts as some species practiced it underground already. It is thought that Jalgren was mated with a female and had a mistress that worked under him. To him, the Emperor didn’t believe that mateship should limit itself to a monogamous relationship, but he still also believed in some limits at the same time. For example, while he was believed to have a female Shal’rein under him, along with his mated wife, he refused to allow any other mateship under himself to occur. He would supposedly later on, claim that “Polygamous Responsibility was important,” as to prevent it from occurring in a widescale and resulting increase in bachelors without mates. There were many arguments as to why mateship was treated so seriously. The primary reason was to limit biowarfare that could be applied in sexual intercourse. One such method of warfare became a legend that groups of “Prostitutes” would be fitted with a deadly acting disease. Once they engaged with multiple partners, the STD could then activate, killing the many that were infected with it. Creating mateships helped eliminate such actions. Even if a male or female carried an STD, it could only infect one person. It made this form of warfare obsolete. Mateship also allowed a popular form of “coupling” where the mates would be kept together to ensure that they could properly raise a child together. This even included warships and battlegrounds, where the Itreans would bring their children into combat so that they could learn how to fight and protect their worlds. Other profound reasons was the simple fact of honor and respect for one another. To cheat was an act of dishonor. Mateship was a legally bound law that meant that they couldn’t be separated unless there were absolutely good reasons to do so.  Much like how the Itrean language had become widely accepted, the singular beliefs of the empire had become a new, somewhat adopted form of societal concepts. It was true that worlds were repressed, but the people were not repressed by gender. It was primarily suppressed by clan species first and foremost.  Males and females could still hold offices, be paid equally, and barely if ever, face issues of sexual harassment or discrimination. While slavery might have existed to some degree, there were almost no reports of “sex slaves.” Under the empire, mateship was officially recognized to be potentially polygamous. This sometimes allowed individuals to have multiple mates unless it reached ridiculous numbers or sharing of mates. One such practice that has survived to this day was the sharing of brothers, sisters, family members, or close friends that could be under mateship. Some Itreans consider it a fair practice. Did divorces occur? The answer is yes, but it was usually rare. Only in times where the mated partner had proven to be insane or suffered some great dysfunction to alter their mental faculties, would the mateship be dissolved. By then, full custody of children would be given to the sane partner. Mateships would only last till the other mated individual passed away or is killed. Did disagreements occur between couples? The answer is yes, but it was generally up to the society, religion, and mateship would be applied to the disturbed couples first. Technically, the Itreans poured a lot of attention into making sure that their marriages worked. Doing things like having couples stay together as much as possible without splitting them apart helped some as well. As for sexual intercourse, the Itreans had different beliefs but sometimes were very similar to how humans would engage in the act. There was almost no form of dating to many in the Empire, but there were occasionally prolonged talking engagements before the mateship announcement was made. Once you became a mate, you were mates for life until the other mate died or if the mate committed a severe crime to dishonor the other mate or if the mate had proven to be delusional. There were generally few other exceptions to the rule. Sex was fairly commonplace, with areas even designated as mating locations, pools, or even parks to have sex freely and openly. The reason for such a decision for society was how they viewed sex. Much like how humans looked at it, it proved to be a viable way to relieve stress and allow the coupling between mateship to occur. When compared to humans, the Itreans did have some notable exceptions. Males tended to reach orgasm generally quicker than humans. However, females would have more sex in the day to make up for the shorter intercourses. The empire did incorporate a number of “sexual enhancements” to men and women of all species. This included various abilities that the Aksren, Yutilians, and Shal’rein females have to this very day. The argument for such a reason was the Empire wanted to “Keep a stable Empire by ensuring mateship would never end, and emotions would be calm and relaxed for all in turn.” Another reason was to further help encourage the ability to get pregnant. It apparently seemed to work. Media, stories, and even Itrean movies all depicted romance and sex scenes that could be comparable to human films. While many Aksren didn’t think like Jalgren, there were some that seemed to understand his point. Even his daughter and future empress would help push to keep gender equality paramount. After the empire had collapsed, many of these trends and attitudes towards sex would never really change. It had simply become an accepted route for all future mateships to engage in the same pattern. While some would claim that there was no progression, there were no forms of regression either. Gender equality would mostly remain the same in the Era of Negotiations. How Sex Changed in the T’rintar Clan and Zilik’s Disease After the Emphra War, the Itrean clans had all practiced a form of cohesion, but there were signs that the last fifty years, the T’rintar were the most “radical” in accepting new ideas. This was primarily for the fact that the clan allowed other families of different species to live with them on their planets. It was technically possible for an Aksren to mate with a Yutilian, without fear of much repression, although there were technical problems. The backlash of past histories and blood feuds could turn mixed mateship into a horrid one. There would be an adoption of the name “Golarren,” which is a rough slang term. T’rintar society tends to look down upon the Golarren. Some would call their possible mixed children “freaks” or would be discriminated against based on who they were. The term would later alter itself to reflect not only upon those that were of mixed blood but of the few that had any birth defects. The concept of “Golarren,” has been a hot topic in T’rintar clan society and even criticized by UWA politicians and scholars. It is considered an open practice of the T’rintar people to openly brandish, ridicule, or discriminate against them based on who they are. Some in the clan defend the aspect as it allows to, in their words, “release their anger and vent openly of their own aggressions.” Others also clearly state that the Aksren and Shal’rein clans don’t even have the Golarren, but simply terminate any offspring that turn out to be one. The fact is that interspecies sex and romance is one that isn’t looked at too highly by society even to this day. Despite this, there is a lot of push for the other direction as well. To the T’rintar politicians and supporters of mixed species, the “Golarren are just the beginning. In the end, we will all be one.” There have been attempts to openly challenge and ensure equality for the Golarren, even if the concept and ideals last to this day. Despite the issues of the Golarren, T’rintar clan society has seen a rival of morale. The post- Emphra Wars had seen a gradual recovery in not only economics but of societal welfare. A “baby boom” occurred in the late 2300s to 2310s, with high birth rates that lasted all the way to 2330s. This would naturally drop once the United Itrean Empire or Republic had collapsed in on itself. Media would reflect a form of contempt and relaxed views on love while maintaining societal norms. The greatest and most significant impact is that of Zilik’s Disease. It was reported as far back as the mid 2339s when a few males had become sick. Feverish symptoms had kicked in as they immediately began to suffer organ shutdown followed by death in a few days. There was no cure, despite all the great efforts to help them. Within a few months, all the males started to have the same problem. It was identified to be a wide mass epidemic and one that had been well planned. Named after the Yutilian biologist, Zilik’s was a deranged woman that had sexist ideas and was looked at as an extreme misandrist. She was a master in bioengineering. She had been crafting her own disease that took her thirty years to make. Designed to target the Y-chromosome, the sickness would settle in and begin to destroy the body rapidly. It was programmed that it could be activated within a ten-year window. This would allow the entire population to secretly be infected with the disease before it would finally activate. Even the most remote of locations had long been infected when the Civil War broke out. By 2339, the disease was unstoppable. Even if it wasn’t designed to target females, they would still be the carriers that last to this day. The disease was absolutely catastrophic for the Itrean societies. Within a two-week window, the males were dying out. It was virtually unstoppable. Females that even had male babies were dying in the wombs or eggs. Any future offspring there forth that would be male died. Even attempts at genetic manipulation failed. Half of the population was gone, and it would shut down the economies immediately. The women were left to pick up the pieces and continue on without the males of their species. The “Great Dying” is heralded as one of the worst events in Itrean history in the last ten years. It even resulted in a cease-fire as the clans debated about continuing the wars or not. Despite the incredible hardships, gender equality had been at an all-time high. Women were fully adept at doing the same duties that males had done. Female soldiers were all but common in battles, industrial jobs, and leadership roles. The fact that still remained that males couldn’t be born would only mean the inevitable. The Itreans were facing extinction. Everything from cloning to rapid forced evolution into asexual reproduction had been considered as makeshift routes. Eventually, both main ideas were turned down as a new solution had been discovered. The Ivon, or “Third Gender,” was created, and it became the temporary solution to the bigger problem. One-third of females would be surgically altered to become male. They would have both male and female parts and would be used to help become future mates of the other females. Technically, the Ivon is still looked at as female by society (including most of UWA society as well) but is also referred to as the Ivon. The result of the Ivon was considered one of the most significant violations in civil liberties in recent Itrean society that far surpassed the issues of the Golarren rights. Once it started in Yutilian society, the Aksren and Shal’rein clans followed in suit. Lotteries were made in which females of a certain age would be forced to undergo surgery. There were remarkably few, if any, exceptions to the rule. The Ivon was then sometimes forced into mateships or even “conditioned” to like females. Morale in sex and mateship had crashed dramatically as all the Itrean women had to embrace the idea that in order to procreate and have children, they would have to have sex with other women. It was incredibly difficult, but it was the only solution available. It is an unpopular concept that is well accepted by all of the Itreans as a whole. Mass wide protests and revolts were put down with extreme prejudice as others knew that there was no choice. Regardless, the solution seemed to be working. The birth rate, which had been nonexistent for a year, started to report the first series of births. Even if the children born alive were female, the female species could continue forth. With the Ivon solution implemented, Zilik, who believed that she could stop future wars by killing the males, failed at her task. The Civil Wars continued, and the females continued to fight against one another. The resulting last ten years have been one that has echoed in Itrean media. Morale has been low that is equally spread between all clans. The previous ten years had utterly failed in finding a permanent cure or vaccine to Zilik’s disease. It wouldn’t be until the discovery of the alien race known as humanity that the Itreans had a revelation in sex and relationships. Technically, the idea of finding a male species of another alien race was not the first thing that was on the Itrean’s minds. If anything, the idea was something that Ziliks preached while she was held in prison and forced to work on a cure. According to the scientists, “If another alien race, like us, were to have males, it might be theoretically possible to mate with them to create new offspring.” It would take a few months before the T’rintar clan had gotten curious as to the idea. In reality, the Aksren and Shal’rein never even considered the idea as the past horrifying thoughts of the Emphra aliens loomed in everybody’s minds. When the T’rintar clan kidnapped the colonists from Eutera, they were open to them almost immediately about what was happening and why they had done it. Discussions were brought forth on why the Itreans had engaged in such hostilities and that they were looking for volunteers to engage in sexual experiments. In reality, there was no harm brought forth to the other prisoners, and they were well treated. The clan made promises that if the experiments were a success, they would negotiate with the UWA to have them returned and even rebuild the damages brought to the colony. Three individuals of the thousand, two men and one woman, willingly agreed to have direct relationships, while others decided to offer their bodies for basic testing purposes. Right from the start, the experiments had proved fruitful. Not only did the human males have the ability to produce Itrean sperm to impregnate Itrean women, but they could introduce a gene into the offspring. This gene made Zilik’s Disease unable to target the Y- chromosome, making it completely inert. Human females had the broadest range of options (by their choice), from being able to be impregnated by an Ivon partner, having an egg altered in DNA, or even being surgically altered to become a human male to do the process. The first confirmed human female experiment was done by Samantha, a lesbian from Cebravis that moved to the colony. She had taken up a Yutilian Ivon as a mate. All the experiments would take some effort but proved to be a complete success. Within eight months, the first male child was born, completely free of the disease. The news was shattering to the T’rintar clan. Humanity had the cure. It was paramount that they join and create an alliance. Fifty years ago, such a concept would have never occurred but, the Itreans were desperate to find a method. Even to use the term for “Golarren,” for mixed children of human and Itreans is a punishable law in their society because of the dire situation of finding an alternative choice to becoming an Ivon. Desperate to find an ally, the UWA made a partnership alliance with the clan as a result. The colonists of Eutera, with the exception of those that wanted to stay with the Itreans, were all returned safely.