Among other peoples, hetaerism derives from the sexual freedom allowed to girls before marriage -- again, therefore, a relic of group marriage, but handed down in a different way.

• 在其它一些民族中，这种杂婚制起源于允许姑娘们在结婚前有性的自由，因此也是群婚制的残余，只不过这种残余是通过其他途径传到今天的。