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 Over the broad sweep of both species and their histories, it is a general truism that there are lighter consequences when males engage in same-sex relationships than when females do.
-On the one side, males are under less strict 'official' supervision. As part of a nomadic [[takma:behaviors#Male bands|band]], they are most often in areas where the only significant form of social control is provided by the band itself, and many bands are fairly tolerant of behavior that does not threaten them. Within a settlement, they may be more closely observed, but in general their sexual or romantic behavior stands a decent chance of going ignored so long as a wife (whether one's own, or someone else's) is not being slighted by it. A particularly broad-minded female may even, sometimes, be willing to marry both male members of a homosexual relationship, especially if they are likely to be economically valuable; the males will be camouflaged as part of a traditional family, and will get to have a home and the experience of raising children, while their wife will have their assistance and labor in her household, even if her children must be fathered by someone else.
+On the one side, males are under less strict 'official' supervision. As part of a nomadic [[takma:behaviors#male_bands|band]], they are most often in areas where the only significant form of social control is provided by the band itself, and many bands are fairly tolerant of behavior that does not threaten them. Within a settlement, they may be more closely observed, but in general their sexual or romantic behavior stands a decent chance of going ignored so long as a wife (whether one's own, or someone else's) is not being slighted by it. A particularly broad-minded female may even, sometimes, be willing to marry both male members of a homosexual relationship, especially if they are likely to be economically valuable; the males will be camouflaged as part of a traditional family, and will get to have a home and the experience of raising children, while their wife will have their assistance and labor in her household, even if her children must be fathered by someone else.
 Males often live in groups, so no one notices if they remain close to each other. With little to no acknowledgement of biological paternity, physically fathering children is not required to blend in. Females have neither such solace; they usually do not live with other females other than close family members, and they usually live in societies where femininity and status are linked to fertility. Either childlessness, or cohabiting with an unrelated female, would likely bring comment and whispers; both at once would, at best, make one a subject of ridicule. As a result, [[species:clade:takmin|takmin]] lesbians generally have poorer quality of life, since they are usually unable to live openly except in extreme isolation, and keeping their orientation secret - or at least plausibly deniable - often involves considerable effort in misdirection, to the point of bearing children for the sole purpose of avoiding suspicion.
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 Bisexuals have the flexibility to submerge themselves in the general population, though whether they can do so with the one or ones they love is a different question.
-There is sometimes room for an individual to take on a socially accepted role as a gender other than that corresponding to their biological sex. In these cultures, a lesbian may be able to classify herself as male, allowing her to marry and cohabit with a "public" female. (In takmin societies, this tends to link the understanding of sexual orientation to that of gender identity, even though they are otherwise separate phenomena.) One of the most prominent takma societies to allow this, and generally one of the most liberal in terms of restricting any behavior, is the city-state of [[avishraa:community:ǣdyihòzh|Ǣdyihòzh]], which for this reason among many, many others is considered a moral cesspool by its neighbors.
+There is sometimes room for an individual to take on a socially accepted role as a gender other than that corresponding to their biological sex. In these cultures, a lesbian may be able to classify herself as male, allowing her to marry and cohabit with a "public" female. (In takmin societies, this tends to link the understanding of sexual orientation to that of gender identity, even though they are otherwise separate phenomena.) One of the most prominent takma societies to allow this, and generally one of the most liberal in terms of restricting any behavior, is the city-state of [[geopolitical:Ǣdyihòzh:]], which for this reason among many, many others is considered a moral cesspool by its neighbors.