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SAN ILDEFONSO (New Mexico;
North-American Natives)
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See also: North-America Non-Natives
In New MexicoHammond saw coital play encouraged by
adults of both sexes (1913, VI:p36-7, as cited by Brongersma,
1987:p124). Whitman (1963:p423)[1][132]: “Children
do not joke about sex or play sexual games. About the age of nine the sexes
tend to separate [sic]”. Whitman
(1947:p51-2)[2][133] states:
“On questions of sex the people of San Ildefonso
are extremely reticent. Children are taught at an early age not to ask about
it. They are told that they are too young to know about such things. In
general we found comparatively little interest in the subject expressed
either in word or action. Upon careful observation we learned that from about
the age of six to the age of ten or eleven small boys do not discuss sex
among themselves or refer to their own genitalia or to those of others. Few
jokes in relation to sex are made by adult men […] The exposure of the genitalia
of little boys and girls appeared to be taken for granted by older groups
[…]. We were told that when girls reach the age of thirteen, probably at the
time of puberty, conception is explained to them by their mothers. Fathers
council their sons of about the same age. From the age of twelve, girls who
show any interest in boys are said to be “crazy” about them. I have heard the
same expression applied to boys who took an interest in girls”. In general,
children are told “when they are big”, and shielded from anything that might
horrify them. Even in adolescence, “[b]oth boys and
girls evince little interest in each other” (p64). They were both “usually
virgins until about the age of sixteen, when they “run around” with partners
of about their own age” forming “liaisons” that are “brief, and though
tolerated […] not approved, especially in the case of girls. […] Older men do
not run after young girls, nor do older women solicit young men” (p70-1).
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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