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TENETEHÁRA (Central Brazil)
Wagley and Galvão
(1949:p78-9)[1] state the Tenetehara
children know all, girls from the women in households, boys from playmates. “Small
boys invariably know of all extramarital affairs in the village”, in short,
“All of them know everything”. There is some masturbation, despite
discouragement (“the head (glans) of your penis
will stick out and the foreskin will stretch as far as your feet if you do
not stop”) and some sex play, in which boys invite girls to come to self-made
houses near the village. The girls soon retire, and little boys of five years
would be used “as the girl”.
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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