Perversion (Term)

People from both sides of the border consider certain behaviors or acts from  the other as perverted.
Before Unity, and for some time after, in Gen Territory, anyone supporting Simes were called Sime-Lovers and considered perverts. In Sime Territory during the time of the Householdings and the beginning of Unity any normal Sime who went to the channels was harassed and accused of dealing with perverts who re-used Gens, treated Gens as human, or did not Kill.
Civilized junct renSimes considered renSimes who tortured Gens before Killing to be perverted because that was the standard behavior of Freeband Raiders (the uncivilized). 
The perversion that made the average Sime shudder was the transfer of selyn from Sime to Sime in channel's transfer.  The entwining of laterals with another Sime was abhorrent to many. From both sides of the border sleeping with someone of the opposite Larity was also considered  a perversion.
After Unity, attitudes softened mostly because, after the Secret Pens were abolished, there was no junct culture, channel's transfer was accepted.  For a long time, though, out-Territory Gen culture rejected much of the in-Territory's cultural attitudes toward permissable sexual partners.  In-Territory, the formerly junct culture continued to reject the Householding cultural attitudes, a division that persists well into the Interstellar era.
During the Interstellar era, whole new cultural biases develop regarding what is, or is not, proper and natural human behavior.
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