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Mead (1932:p189-91)[1][141] relates that traditionally girls were instructed by grandmothers. Rated “essentially puritanical”, young girls were “bred to modesty and fear, and chaperoned on all occasions” (cf. p120-1). There are few remarks on childhood, except that “[h]omosexual sex play among children is reported and this may partly account for the lack of frigidity in adult women”. Also, “[b]ecause of the fear of homosexuality, the older girls are discouraged from showing too much personal interest in the younger ones” (p119).
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