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GEBUSI(Papua
New Guinea)
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Bibliography
Gebusi’s initiatory homosexuality
included boy insemination per os at
pubescence (Knauft, 1985:264ff, 298ff; 1986:p267; 1987a,b, 2003)[1]. The practice was no longer in
vogue in 1998[2] (Knauft, 2003)[3].
In contrast to the “Sambia”, Gebusi did not say or imply that men had to be inseminated to reach
adulthood; “this was simply an erotic act that could help them in this
regard”.
Knauft
(2003) speaks of
“[….] avid and openly pursued sexual
relations between prospective initiates, who were generally between about 16
and 20 years of age. In addition to being inseminated by fully adult men,
these novices, during the months prior to their initiation, joked bawdily
with each other, engaged in ribald sexual horseplay, and sometimes paired up
and brought each other reciprocally to orgasm, to the amusement and
heightened joking of other men. Like the trysts between novices and adult
men, these sexual engagements occurred privately and dyadically at night in
the bush just outside the longhouse during the course of all-night spirit
seances or ritual dances-that is, in a general context of ritually vaunted
male ribaldry. The stereotypic nature of these events and their association
with spiritual celebration suggested, at least for Gebusi MSM, that
"ritualized homosexuality" was, at least in relative terms, a
better term than "boy insemination.”
Janssen,
D. F., Growing Up Sexually. Volume I.
World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed.
2004. Berlin:
Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology
Last
revised: Aug 2005
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