Growing Up Sexually

 

 

GURO (IVORY COAST) 

 

 

 

 

Index → Africa→ Ivory Coast → Guro

(Senoufo, Guro) 

 

 

The Kne initiation is to prepare girls for sexual life (Deluz, 1987)[1], taking place at puberty, and rather before than after (p123). Clitoridectomy is part of the rite.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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] Deluz, A. (1987) Social and symbolic values of feminine “kne” initiation among the Guro of the Ivory Coast, in Parkin, D. & Nyamwaya, D. (Eds.) Transformations of African Marriage. Manchester [etc.]: Manchester University Press, p113-35