Growing Up Sexually

 

Island Carib(Lesser Antilles) (eHRAF)

 

Index → Americas → Caribbean, Middle / Central America→ Antilles → Island Carib

 

See also Martinique, Aruba

 

Layng (1983:p27)[1]:

 

"Youths were expected to be chaste, and adolescent girls were supervised closely by their mothers. A young man needed permission from a woman's parents to marry her, but once married, usually without any ceremony, he had the right to beat her to death for sexual infidelity."

 

 

 

 

 

Janssen, D. F., Growing Up Sexually. VolumeI. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology

Last revised: May 2005

 


[1] Layng, A. (1983) The Carib Reserve: identity and security in the West Indies. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America [eHRAF 2005]