Droit du seigneur in practice

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How to put the mythical droit du seigneur into practice without disturbances?

Two challenges:
1.Overlords to exercise droit du seigneur in their native land among their own people
2.Overlords to exercise droit du seigneur in a newly conquered land among a foreign people
 
Your last three threads started in AH: Before 1900

Droit de seigneur in practice
How to put the mythical droit du seigneur into practice without disturbances?

Two challenges:
1.Overlords to exercise droit du seigneur in their native land among their own people
2.Overlords to exercise droit du seigneur in a newly conquered land among a foreign people
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=379111

Other groups as well known as the Circasian beauties:
I bet in every empire prior to the Ottoman Empire, women from certain region were preferred as concubines by the ruling class just like the Circassian women were by the Ottoman ruling class; they just didn't get the publicity and hype their Circassian counterpart got.

So which groups were more likely to get that publicity and hype to reach that fame?
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=379007


Empires collect human assets as taxes
In East Asia, hegemons demanded a special form of tribute:

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B2%A2%E5%A5%B3
https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/공녀
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/貢女

sorry there's no English entry, it's basically quotas of women of desirable traits imposed on tributaries.

The upside of such programs is the acquisition of female slaves through peaceful deliveries instead of violent raids.

Could such programs have existed elsewhere?

I think it could have existed and be mutually beneficial: for example, in the Roman Empire, economically underdeveloped regions/provinces could make more qualitative and quantitative deliveries of women and pay less taxes.
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=378591

Is a certain pattern emerging here?
 
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