MARRIAGE EQUALITY - EVOLUTION'S PROFOUND UNFINISHED STORY
A world of difference Society on Gethen is ambisexual. That is, for most of the time people are androgynous, but once a month at the time of kemmer they become sexually active as either male or female – they never know which it will be. This is the setting for Ursula K Le Guin’s stunning sci-fi novel The Left hand of Darkness. In her mutable fictional culture, the rigid gender divisions we hold have no relevance. I think ambisexuality is worth a close look when the issue of equality in marriage is a hot potato for politicians and a source of fierce polarising debate in the community. Duality of male-female is supposed to be self-evident because of differences in genitalia and bodily characteristics. But recent genetic discoveries have revealed a more complex story, as if the characteristics of dimorphism only represent either end of a pole. In attitudes