For this era, it was actually nowhere near as open as people imagined, even though it looked... quite open.
The Federation was a very strange society, filled everywhere with all kinds of starkly opposing contradictions! For example, after a series of equal rights movements, the women of the Federation could be said to have entered what they considered the best era imaginable! Women could enjoy largely the same rights and obligations as men.
Those girls no longer attended special religious schools, where they were subjected to a harsh school system like nuns or monks, restricting their natural instincts.
They could recklessly scatter everything related to youth beneath the setting sun! Sweat, affection, hormones, and sex.
But it was actually not that open, especially among the upper-middle class, where people still favored the conservative-minded.
Perhaps the Federation's ruling class was caught in the gap between the old and new eras. The last batch of "old diehards" was about to leave the center of power, while the new generation of young powerholders had not yet had time to take the stage.
Society at the bottom was too far removed from power, so they could not sense the rigidity and conservatism of the Upper Class.
Perhaps they would encounter them over certain matters, then make a few remarks like "stubborn old fogeys," treating themselves as representatives of the avant-garde and refusing to bother with those old people.
But to the people of the Upper Class, many traditional things remained important.
Such as the various virtues women were expected to uphold.
Inviting three young, brawny men home to enjoy themselves clearly was not one of those virtues that needed to be upheld. It was even an example of immoral conduct!
Look at the Upper Class—the truly upper-class ladies, those who wielded power or whose