"too much to lose to undertake it lightly."

Not every society agrees with the "high-stakes" assessment which emanates from the pathologies of a bronze-age desert death-cult.

Most everyone agrees that the one with the highest stake is the woman.

And yet, explorers were taken aback by the custom of wife-exchange among the Eskimo and Aleut.

Treating sex as "hospitality" would be deemed as "taking it lightly" by the pathologies of the West.

But hey, those who've swallowed the Bible too often seek proof of it in biology; even as customs vary over time and across cultures.

Dante