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MACHIGUENGA(Peru)
Also featured: Sharanahua, Shipibo,
Amahuaca, Cashinahua; ®Aymara)
According to Johnson[1]:
“The
gender separation of older children that intensifies through work with their
same-sex parents comes to extend to social relations in general. When men and
women form sex segregated groups at a feast, for example, older boys join the
men around their food pot, leaving the young boys with the women and girls.
Owing to the general public seperateness between
male and female, I rarely observed sexual play among adults or children.
Parents hide sex from children by saving it for private trips to their garden
or clandestine late night lovemaking. But they say that from an early age
children learn about sex and engage in sex play and intercourse in the
bushes--having apparently learned modesty from their parents”.
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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