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NORTHERN TUNGUS (Siberia)
Shirokogoroff (1929/1966:p289])[1]: “In order to give pleasure to the
children, adults sometimes […] tickle the sexual organs”. A footnote reads:
“I did not observe among the Tingus [sic], the sucking of the penis of
small boys, as is common among the Machus. Among
the Birarčen I saw a mother who was tickling the
sexual organs of her small daughter. In another case a girl sixteen-year-old
was tickling the penis of her brother who was about four year old. These
practices are very common[2]”. Shirokogoroff (1935:p249)[3]continues with the fact
that
“[…] among all Tungus
groups a certain attention is paid to the sexual organs of children. The
children, under the pretext that they are children and do not understand what
they do, are asked to exhibit their genitalia in the presence of adult
persons, who enjoy in seeing children—performers. However, among the Tungus groups this practice is not equally in vogue. Its
greatest development is observed among the Khingan
group, --i.e. exactly in the group where erectio
penis was performed [proving a point on exhibitionism as a psychological
trait],-- the children, especially girls sometimes of the age of ten and even
twelve years, are requested to show their genitalia. They willingly do it,
for the adult people do approve it (I cannot now assert that the parents
always are present and frankly approve their children). As to whether the
children are absolutely conscious of what they do—personally I think that a Tungus child of ten or twelve years may be so—is not of
importance, for we are interested in the social side of exhibitionism” [etc.].
Children are not
allowed to use “coprolalic” words “[…] for they do
not need them so much as adult people” (p247). The legal minimum bride’s age
was 18 (p100).
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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