But where they differ most seriously from human societies is in their sexual arrangements.
She writes: "Almost every marital and sexual arrangement we have seen in recent years, however startling it may appear, has been tried somewhere before."
Meanwhile, Antonia strikes up a sexual arrangement with a farmer who once proposed marriage.
He alluded to jealousies, however, and said that members viewed the sect's sexual arrangements as a biblical trial.
The Titanides I took from mythology - their sexual arrangements are original with me, however.
And if that meant delving into Phillipe's sexual arrangements, then so be it.
Whether there was any acrimony over this (especially by the professed standard of the time) unorthodox sexual arrangement was not something they ever talked about.
Ms. Machti seemed the type of person who might wonder about other people's sexual arrangements.
The jury has heard mostly from low-level employees or organized crime figures who testified about the club's financial and sexual arrangements.