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Volume I and II of "Loving Boys" by Edward Brongersma write: "In the crow American Indian tribe there were men dressed as women who specialised in relieving the sexual tensions in adolescent boys by sucking them off (Ford & Beach 1968, 142) [...] The Sioux Indians who teach their sons how to masfurbate seem to hit the mark when they call the conventional sex education methods of the Pale Faces "simply barbaric" [...] In many "primitive" tribes (as with the Hopi and Siriono Indians) parents see it as their duty to encourage their sons to make a habit of rubbing their penises, and will even help them (Ford & Beach 1968,202). [...] Among the Hopi in Arizona and the Sirian in Bolivia, childhood masturbation passes without anyone taking notice of it, at least until puberty [...] . Sioux Indian fathers even teach their little sons how to rub their penises-and encourage them to do so regularly (Sarlin 197 5, 311) [...] In the South American nation of Colombia, the virginity of girls has to be strictly maintained. Any male who deflowers a girl outside of marriage runs the risk of being killed by her father or one of her brothers. Thus parents are terribly afraid that their adolescent sons, while courting, may go too far. In the Cartagena region this anxiety, coupled with the conviction that boys absolutely need to satisfy their sexual drives, has led to the institution of the donkey-man. On certain, fixed days a man walks through the streets of the village singing the praises of his female donkey. Parents encourage their sons to follow him. Man, donkey and a trail of boys retire to the woods where the boys undress and take turns having intercourse with the beast (or, perhaps we should say: masturbate with the help of the donkey's vagina!) while the others form a circle about him and watch. Nobody is in the least embarrassed. When a German living in the area got to know some of the local boys, heard about the institution and asked if he could film the scene, he was cordially invited to do so. The Brongersma Foundation possesses a copy of this film. [...] An example of the first, shamanistic practice we find in a report on the Pueblo Indians in California dating from 1850. Every year one of the handsomest and strongest boys was selected to become a mujerado (womanized male). Every day he was masturbated for hours on end, and during the same period made to mount a horse bareback so that his testicles were continuously squeezed. Thus his genitals were kept in a constant state of irritation. In the beginning sperm and slime constantly dripped from them, but finally the glands and penis shrivelled. After thus being rendered impotent, the youth adopted feminine dress and performed feminine tasks. He was held in great respect: during the spring religious sex orgies all men had sexual relations with him; during rest of the year this privilege was restricted to the tribal chiefs (Karsch-Haack l9l 1, 358-362; Stoll 1908, 955-956). The same is told of the Majave and Illinois Indians (Devereux 1963; Italiaander 1969, 99). [...] The practice of bringing up some selected boys as girls, according to Borneman, flourishes in "innumerable cultures" (1978, l43l)-for example, among Indians in Canada, Wyoming and Montana, in Kamchatka and among the Tatares in the USSR, where the Soviet administration wasn't able to put an end to it (Borneman 1978, 127-128, 132, 145 Ploss 1884, II 529). [...] Tobias Scheebaum (1969) lived like a native with a naked tribe of Indians in the Peruvian rain forest. He tells how affectionate and intimate men and boys were there to each other, and how these close relationships as a matter of course found their expression in sex. [...] Rich Roman fathers used to give their adolescent sons a slave boy for their sexual use, and Catullus, in one of his poems, tells how such a slave boy, in turn, molests the local peasant girls (Borneman 1978, 622-723). The Spanish Conquistadores discovered that the same paternal practice existed among the Maya Indians of Guatemala (Bullough 1976, 43)." |