Index
IES:
Colombia
SCCS:
(2-,2-,3,2+,3,3;3,3;G3)
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CUBEO (Colombia)
More:
Embera, Alkatcho,
Aritama, Zorcas,
Tukano, Kagaba,
Kogi
Young children who indulge in heterosexual
play are “shamed by the older boys for ignoring the proprieties of privacy” (Goldman,
1963:p181)[1]. “Girls undergo digital defloration at the
age of eight, I was told. An old man of the sib who is no longer virile is
charged with this task. He is said to stretch the young girl's vagina until
he can insert three fingers. He then announces, “You are a woman”. The Cubeo
say that if a girl should reach her first menstruation with her hymen intact
coitus will ever after be painful for her and she will have difficulties
during parturition. Digital defloration is a secret act; officially, the
Cubeo credit the moon with the act. The moon copulates at night with a young
girl and brings on her first menstruation. Thus, a prepubescent girl is
referred to as paúnwe bebíko (one
who has not yet copulated with the moon)” (p179-80).
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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