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PAIELA (Papua New Guinea)
Index→ Papua New
Guinea → Paiela
More:
Arapesh, Ari, Barano, Baruya, Bimin-Kukusmin, Busama, Darabi, Dobu Isl., Eipo, Etoro, Foi, Gebusi, Jaquai, Keraki, Kewa, Kimam, Kiwai, Koko, Kwoma, Lesu, Manus, Marind
Anim, New Britain, New
Ireland, Normanby Islanders, “Sambia”, Trobrianders, Vanatinai, Wogeo
Bibliography
Adolescents by definition neither copulate nor sexually reproduce. They are
considered chaste and sterile, in fact not really male or female, until they
are married and become parents (Biersack, 1982:p242)[1]. The boy’s puberty rite include
periodical seclusion with an imaginary “ginger woman” to have her grow him
into marriage, using “her”, it seems, as a rehearsal wife (p252); sexual
intercourse is tabooed during the ritual period. Genitals are considered so
obscene, that one does not look at or touch one self’s (p244); sexual
intercourse is equated with seeing the genitalia.
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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