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ARITAMA (Northern Colombia)
More: Cubeo,
Embera, Alkatcho, Zorcas, Tucano, Kagaba,
Kogi
Reichel-Dolmatoff and Reichel-Dolmatoff
(1961:p87, 96)[1]: “The genitals of babies are
frequently touched and rubbed in a playful manner by adults and children, not
only when nursing but on any other occasion. Male children especially are
handled in such a fashion, and often a mother can be seen kissing her
infant’s penis of fondling it to quiet his crying. Adults make joking remarks
about the future virility of the baby, about the size of his penis, and about
his reactions to such caresses”. Further (p96):
“As children are able
to observe the sex life of adults, they soon try to imitate it, and at about
four or five years boys and girls imitate coitus in the presence of adults.
Such behavior is not punished, as people believe it
is quite natural in children. Masturbation is common at about three years and
is always severely punished by slaps and threats of castration, accompanied
by the showing of knives and scissors to scare the child. All adults and
older children are obliged to denounce masturbatory practices of younger
children immediately to the parents. All this in spite of the fact that
mothers quite often masturbate their children when putting them to sleep. A
certain tendency to exhibitionism is observed in boys between two and five
years. During these ages “urinating contests”- in which the boys vie to see
who can come nearest a target with his stream of urine- are common. Or, in
the presence of parents and other people, the boys will try to urinate into a
bottle, or will persecute a girl by trying to urinate on her dress. These
“show-offs” are laughed at by the adults, and rather encouraged, but at five
years of age the sexes are separated at play, both boys and girls tending to
form their own play-groups, without mixing”.
Janssen,
D. F., Growing Up Sexually. VolumeI. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin:
Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology
Last
revised: Sept 2004
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