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MONGOLIA
Ordos Mongols (Mongolia)
Among the Rev. Kler[1] observed that “[t]he Mongols are
very affectionate to their children and frequently kiss them on the mouth or
forehead or smell their hair. They have yet another custom none too decent.
When elders, -- parents or friends--, play with infants, they commonly touch
the child’s genitals and caress them, saying at the same time: “Give me
this”, -- a custom daily observable also among the pagan Chinese” (p64).
Also, “In the very hot
Mongolian summer the children up to the age of ten or twelve play on the sand
dunes entirely nude, except perhaps for their boots”. “Among the Ordos
Mongols, children are sometimes betrothed even before birth. This custom,
called eŭndege in swie (“Match-making before birth”), is thought by the
Mongols to be of very nacient origin. […] the actual age of marriage today
[1938] varies a great deal, from four or five years to sixteen or seventeen,
the average or ordinary age being fifteen” (p66).
Janssen,
D. F., Growing Up Sexually. Volume
I. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed.
2004. Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology
Last
revised: Dec 2004
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