Cathy

In Ann Leckie's Translation State, we are finally getting to see a bit of the culture of the Presger Translators - descendants of humans who were essentially kidnapped and genetically altered to be able to interface with both the very, very alien Presger and the humans they originated from.

( Spoilers ho... )

It's really fucked up, regardless of species. I'm about halfway through the book and I don't know if a societal change for the Translators is in the cards here? but as a human here on earth I can say, even in full awareness that I'm preaching to the choir: children have a fucking right to age-appropriate comprehensive sex ed, virginity fetishization is for the birds, and anyone who would valorize "submissive" wives over equal partners in marriage needs to sit down and take a good long hard look at their life and their choices.