home. Then men express these decisions in the communal meetings. There are cases in which a man has had to publicly retract an opinion if it was not uttered as was agreed at home between woman and man. This cultural manifestation, which is also common in rural areas in Ecuador, could confuse experienced researchers that might see only docile women attending these meetings. A final example of gender complementarity relations is from the Laymi of Bolivia, studied by Olivia Harris (1978, 1980). Harris explains that for Laymi people marriage is a way for getting cultural completeness. It is the fruitful cooperation of man and woman that produces culture, in contrast to unmarried people who are not considered cultural entities. Culture is based on duality, in contrast to someone what has remained single when s/he should have been paired (Harris 1978: 28). Marriage is considered not simply as a means for women to achieve cultural completeness, but also as a way to domesticate sexuality, which does not have any kind of taboo.4 Before marriage youngsters have sexual relations outdoors (savage) but after marriage only within the communities (cultured). Among Laymi, gender complementation is not only a human but also a divine need. Their gods need life partners as well: besides the Inti, the God Sun that protects the moral order, there is the Moon, which is feminine. Pachamama, the mother Earth, the symbol of inhabited and cultivated land, is the partner of the kumpriras, the savage mountain. In Laymi rituals female-male unity is related to the use of both hands: left for women and right for men. Highlands are considered masculine and valleys are feminine. 4 This differs from notions of Latin American urban areas. Dussel (1975 cited in Poeschel 1988) explains that the Latin-American male, descendant of Visigoths, Christians, and conquerors, sees erotic relations as a conquest and seeks a position of dominance. As a result, as described by feminists, in the Latin American concept of family the women is assumed to be an object, and conjugal sexuality is basically masculine and dominating, which produces a family structure that tends to be oppressive to women.