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Derowd
Derowd is a fictional planet mentioned by Dors Venabili in Isaac Asimov's Prelude to Foundation as an example of the many different possible attitudes toward sex. On Derowd, promiscuous sexual activity was permitted without restraint even in public, providing traffic was not blocked. The idea was to allow people to live out all their fantasies, so they would be ready to settle down after marriage. After marriage, the concept of monogamy was absolute and unbroken.
This practise stopped around 11,700 G.E. Many associates of Dr. Venabili believed that this was from pressure by other planets, who lost a great deal of tourist business to Derowd.
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