About marriage and illegitimate life

The attitude to sex, marriage, divorce is constantly changing - and at the same time they remain constants of human civilization. In the book "On the marriage and illegitimate life", journalist Olga Kolobova and archaeologist Valery Ivanov, who write under the common pseudonym Oleg Ivik, summarize their many years of work on these topics. Before us is an exciting history of marriages, divorces and sexual traditions that the authors trace for many centuries: from ancient Egypt to the present. Myths and rituals, complex wedding rules and legal curios, marriage rites of Ancient Rome and Ancient Russia, China and Polynesia - a huge coverage of the material in this book is combined with a slight and cheerful language, which sometimes reminds of a "general history processed by a satiricalone"