PSYCH352 Lecture : Week 1 - Introduction.docx
2 Feb 2013
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Culturally ingrained initiation for boys to transform into men. Believe that femaleness is innate natural essence and that maleness must be cultivated. Boys are seen as existing in a female world and are contaminated by mothers" wombs. Initiation practices are used to transform boys into men: piercing septum of nose, thrashing boys with sticks. Initiation also includes older men giving jerungdu to boys: achieved through boys performing oral sex, semen seen as physical basis of jerungdu. Throughout one"s life, a male engages in: Ingestion of semen from around ages 7 to 15: receiving fellatio to impart semen at age 15, heterosexual contact with wife after age 17 (and some homosexual contact still) Females expected to be heterosexual throughout lifespan. Sambian males thus go through homosexual, bisexual, and heterosexual phases throughout their lives. Sexuality is dynamic in sambian society, whereas it is seen as a core identity in.
