There's no right way to find a mate -- happy couples have met on the Internet, at orgies, and in prison cells. So when we point out the thoroughly bizarre dating rituals you see in far corners of the world, we try not to pass judgment. This dating shit is weird for everybody:

5 Parents in Cambodia Build Their Daughters Love Huts Specifically for Casual Sex

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When a young girl comes of age in the Kreung tribe of Cambodia, it's tradition for her parents to build a small hut for her away from the main home, sort of like setting up a small apartment in the room over your parents' garage. Except the Kreung tribe's so-called "love huts" serve a bit of a different purpose -- so teenage girls can have all the sex they want without their parents having to listen to it.

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And vice-versa.

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In the Kreung culture, girls are encouraged to sleep with as many boys as they need to in order to find a husband. It's basically dating, only without the stigma associated with premarital sex, and confined entirely within four-legged sex huts. If a girl is interested in a boy, she'll invite him back to her private clubhouse for an intimate evening that may or may not result in sex, depending on how well his jokes are landing. Regardless of the outcome, the boy has to get his ass out of the hut by dawn, because a young man and a young woman aren't allowed to be seen in public together unless they are officially a couple. It's a little like high school in that regard.

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The girls are in complete control of the process, with jilted boys dutifully leaving the love huts if the girls decide they're just not feeling it. There's little evidence of domestic violence, and reports of rape are nonexistent. If a girl winds up getting pregnant with a boy she decides not to marry, the boy she does marry will raise the child as his own without complaint (or at least will keep his complaints to his damn self).

And while a fair amount of sex is certainly being had in the love huts, it is by no means their only purpose. They exist to provide girls with a safe, controlled way to find a legitimate life partner, with parents trusting their children to make the decisions (read: have the sexual encounters required) that will help them find a loving relationship. It seems to work, too -- divorce is almost nonexistent in the culture. Although, we admit that could have something to do with middle-aged Kreung men being realistic about their chances of being invited into a love hut.