Cariye
The  was always regarded as sexually available for the master of the house, and if she bore a child by him, she could no longer be sold. It was common for a  to be freed (manumitted). However, a manumission did not mean that a  was free to simply leave the household. In a Muslim society based on gender segregation, were women lived in seclusion, it was not a possibility for a manumitted woman to simply leave the house and walk about in the street, as a free unmarried woman without family would have no way to support herself. Instead, the manumission of a woman normally meant that a marriage was arranged for her; often, a male who freed a woman married her himself, or arranged for her to be married to another man.