AMMASSALIK (Greenland)

 

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See also: North-America Non-Natives

 

 

 

“Complete sex freedom exists before and after marriage”. “As soon as a youth puts on a natit, the woman begins to smile and he is ready for marriage. When the girls put on their natit in a topknot as a sign that they are ready for marriage. Neither boy nor  girl needs any further preparation for marriage. Each can carry on the work that is required of him; they have liberal sex knowledge, for there is no privacy achieved or desired in sex; they have no social structure to learn, no formalized ritual. They are as they are and that is the way the society takes them” (Mirsky, 1937:p77)[1][187].

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Janssen, D. F., Growing Up Sexually. VolumeI. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology

Last revised: Sept 2004

 


[1][187] Misrky, J. (1937) The Eskimo of Greenland, in in Mead, M. (Ed.) Cooperation and Competition among Primitive Peoples. New York & London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., p51-86