[ **up: [[Marriage]] | [[Ursula K. Le Guin (Author)]]** ] # Sedoretu **Sedoretu** is a fictional form of [[Marriage]] created by [[Ursula K. Le Guin (Author)|Ursula K. Le Guin (Author)]].[^1][^2] > ‘Marriage on O is a foursome, the sedoretu—a man and a woman from the Morning moiety and a man and a woman from the Evening moiety. You’re expected to have sex with both your spouses of the other moiety, and not to have sex with your spouse of your own moiety. So each sedoretu has two expected heterosexual relationships, two expected homosexual relationships, and two forbidden heterosexual relationships.’[^3] --- > ‘’The expected relationships within each sedoretu are: > > The Morning woman and the Evening man (the ‘Morning marriage’) > The Evening woman and the Morning man (the ‘Evening marriage’) > The Morning woman and the Evening woman (the ‘Day marriage’) > The Morning man and the Evening man (the ‘Night marriage’) > > The forbidden relationships are between the Morning woman and the Morning man, and between the Evening woman and the Evening man, and they aren’t called anything, except sacrilege.[^4] --- - *See also:* [[Moiety]] --- ## External resources - [Sedoretus: It's just as complicated as it sounds, but aren't most marriages?](https://tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com/134882.html) (2015) — LiveJournal user [tardis_stowaway](https://tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com/) talks about their “favourite underused polyshipping trope: the *sedoretu*”. - [WTF is a sedoretu?](https://bemusedlybespectacled.tumblr.com/post/141332914501/wtf-is-a-sedoretu) (2016) — Tumblr user [bemusedlybespectacled](https://bemusedlybespectacled.tumblr.com) gives a rundown via Marvel characters. - [sedoretu](https://www.everything2.com/title/sedoretu) (2020) — short essay by everything2.com user [Estelore](https://everything2.com/user/Estelore). - [Sedoretu](https://fanlore.org/wiki/Sedoretu) — Fanlore page. [^1]: Ursula K. LeGuin, ‘Mountain Ways’, *Clarkesworld: Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine*, Issue 90 (March 2014), n.p. https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/le_guin_03_14_reprint/. [^2]: Amy Richlin, ‘Chapter 18: Sexuality and History’, in *The SAGE Handbook of Historical Theory*, edited by Nancy Partner and Sarah Foot, SAGE Publications, 2013, p. 303, https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446247563. [^3]: Ursula K. LeGuin, ‘Mountain Ways’, n.p. [^4]: *ibid.*