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WEST INDIES
(Puerto Rico, Haiti, Jamaica)
According to Rose (1994:[p136-8])[1],
virtually all St. Lucia women, young and old, reported that at the
time of menarche they were grossly ignorant of menstruation. When it does
occur [ages 14, 15] they are told, apart from hygienic instructions, not to
“play” or “mess” with boys. It is stated that “very little research has
actually been conducted on documenting sex relations across the life-cycle”
(p186-7). Andre[2] argued that differences in the
upbringing of male and female children in French West Indian society aim not
to determine different attitudes toward sexuality, but rather contrast the
sexual and the nonsexual.
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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