Growing Up Sexually

 

 

ORRI (NIGERIA) 

 

Index →Africa→Nigeria→ Orri

 

Featured: Badjju, Nupe, Hausa, Kadara, Kagoro, Efik, Tiv, Kanuri, Ijaw/ Ijo, Bini, Marghi, Jekri, Lala, Kofjar, Ibibio, Woodabe Fulani, Borroro Fulani, Ibo[Afikpo Igbo, Asaba Ibo], Rukuba, Irigwe, Yakoe, Igbira, Igala, Orri, Dakarkaki, Tuareg

 

Among the Utonkon-Effium Orri (Armstrong, 1955:p151[1]; Talbot (1969 [III]:p452), betrothal of girls occurred at birth. She joins her fiancée freely although “too early intercourse” is thought to “cause her breasts to dry up and may render her sterile”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Janssen, D. F., Growing Up Sexually. VolumeI. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology

Last revised: Sept 2004

 


[1] Armstrong, R. G. (1955) The Idoma-Speaking Peoples, in Forde, C. D., Brown, P. & Armstrong, R. G. (Eds.) Peoples of the Niger-Benue Confluence. London: International African Institute, p91-152