Annotation: Attitudes toward sex, marriage, and divorce are constantly changing, even as these things simultaneously remain a constant of human civilization. In the book On Life In and Outside of Marriage journalist Olga Kolobova and archeologist Valery Ivanov, writing under the shared pseudonym Oleg Ivik, summarize their years-long research on this topic. This book gives readers an engaging history of marriage, divorce, and sexual practices, which the authors trace over the course of several centuries, from Ancient Egypt to the present day. Detailing myths and rituals, complicated marriage regulations and legal curiosities, wedding rites in Ancient Rome and Ancient Rus, in China and Polynesia—the enormous scope of material in this book is brought together with an easy and jovial language that is reminiscent of Satyricon’s General History.