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JAMINAWA (prim. State of Acre, near the borders of Brazil,
Peru and Bolivia)
“Jaminawa youth experiment with sex even
before puberty, and girls who become pregnant before marriage undergo painful
abortions performed by kneading the abdomen. Sometimes, Mireilles [“Jose
Carlos Mireilles, the grizzled chief of Funai for the state of Acre”] said, the abortion does not
work, and the baby is born. In those cases, the unwanted babies are buried
alive”[1].
Janssen,
D. F., Growing Up Sexually. VolumeI. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin:
Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology
Last
revised: Oct. 2004
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