Exclusive mating arrangement

"Exclusive mating arrangement" is the Race's translation for the word "marriage." The Race considers this and other monogamous relationships to be the height of sexual perversion. Nevertheless, a number of males and females, chemically altered into constant sexual activity by ginger, have entered into such arrangements, as described in the controversial book One Life, One Mate.

The Race originally exiled such pairs from its territory, usually to the United States. However, by the twenty-first century the Race recognized that the practice had become so widespread that exile was no longer practicable.