DARABI(Papua New Guinea)

 

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Among the New Ireland Darabi, betrothal took place in infancy “or at an early age” (Wagner, 1983:p77)[1]. Shame surrounds all sex knowledge and sex education is anticipated as seduction, so that fables are told instead of facts (p78).

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

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] Wagner, R. (1983) The ends of innocence: conception and seducation among the Darabi of of Karimui and the Barok of New Ireland, Mankind 14,1:75-83