Growing Up Sexually

 


Index

South America

IES: Brazil

 

TAPIRAPÉ (Central Brazil)

 

IndexAmericasSouth AmericaBrazilTapirapé

 


 


 

 

Wagley (1977:p145)[1]: “They [boys] played house and included little girls as wives. Adults roared with laughter when the children imitated quarrels between husband and wife. And I saw boys and girls imitating copulation without being reprimanded by adults”.

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

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]Wagley, Ch. (1977) Welcome of Tears: The Tapirapé Indians of Central Brazil. New York: Oxford University Press