Mating Ceremony Planning Begins

“It’s not a wedding ceremony. There’s no handing off the bride like you’re loaning out or giving away an unwanted hunting dog.” Becky, Jane Ann, Jon, and Rob sat at a dining table, and they’d just started working out the plans for a joint mating ceremony.

“Wow. That’s a new way to look at a wedding ceremony.” Jane Ann couldn’t believe what she was hearing.

“Historically speaking, they were using a religious blessing to make it okay to pass a woman from one man to another as an object. Though when humans talk about things like this, they use cattle instead of hunting dogs. It’s weird sounding, but true.” Becky had been after all married before and her father had given her away. “I understand how the hand off at the beginning of the ceremony is representative of handing over an object rather than a human being. They could be anything really at that point. Heck, it’s called giving the bride away and my father said he was proud and honoured to do it back then.”