Talking about fertility, it is important in both the Nuer and Brahman culture. Patrilineal descent was used to form and continue groups. They were all the time waiting for boys. The more sons, the better. Moreover, whether the couple stayed married or not, the children would always belong to their father’s family and will carry the the name of the father’s family. In the Brahman culture a man could lose his caste state if he had sex with someone from the untouchable caste. Yet the woman was allowed to have sex with multiple different men who will be waiting if pregnancy occure to see who is the father of the baby.
