arioi's

Updated: May 9, 2025

Such was their life of luxurious and licentious indolence and crime. Yet each Arioi had his own wife, also a member of the society. Improper conduct toward an Arioi's wife by an Arioi was punished often by death. To a woman such membership meant a singular freedom from the tabus, prohibitions, that had forbidden her eating with men, tasting pig, and other delicacies.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.