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JIVARO (Ecuador)
Also featured: Cayapá
Among the Jivaro, “premature sexual
intercourse is prohibited to a youth until he has passed through the
initiation for manhood to become what is called a tsémbraca” (Karsten, 1935:p216; Ford and Beach, 1951:p182)[1]. If this rule is violated, he may
die (Ford, 1945 [1964:p20]). “Very frequently immature girls of 8 or 9 years
of age are purchased as wives. […] Sexual intercourse does not take place,
however, until puberty” (Stirling, 1938:p108)[2].
Janssen,
D. F., Growing Up Sexually. VolumeI. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin:
Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology
Last
revised: Sept 2004
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