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With the tattooing of boys at age 13, they
became men; “if a chief, however, as soon as it was commenced, he was
systematically taken in hand by the women and taught fornication” (Gardiner)[1]. The feasts that follow, “[…]
were in no way accompanied by scenes of unnatural vice”.
Additional
Refs:
-- Howard,
A. (1970) Learning to be Rotuman:
Acculturation in the South Pacific. New York: Teachers
College Press, ColumbiaUniversity
Janssen,
D. F., Growing Up Sexually. VolumeI. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin: Magnus
Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology, Berlin
Last
revised: Sept 2004
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