They also had no word for "Interior Decorator.'
Posted on 10/16/2011 12:13:37 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
A husband-and-wife team of anthropologists at Washington State University named Barry and Bonnie Hewlett believe that they’ve found a society without gay sex—and that there other societies, too, in which some presumably universal behaviors, such as homosexuality and masturbation, are nonexistent at all levels of analysis.
The Hewletts work amid a group of peaceful net-hunting foragers in central Africa known as the Aka, who live in migratory camps of about 25 to 35 individuals.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Not on my property it don’t.
They also had no word for "Interior Decorator.'
FAIR WARNING: It’s a long article, and at one point some stomach-turning “quaint local customs” are described. Sorry; should’ve mentioned it in the OP.
Only where subsidized.
Many societies, such as Islam and the old Third Reich, tend to “weed” out the gay crowd. They cull the herd if you will.
I saw a documentary several years ago in which there were some researchers who were surprised to discover that a particular region in China had no word for homosexuality. When the researchers explained to the locals what homosexuality was the locals laughed in an embarrassed way clearly not seeing any point to homosexuality.
We can send social workers to teach them ...
You’re kidding, right? Islam is FULL of gays. Doing little boys and each other is very, very common. Afghans, those wonderful people for whose freedom we’re fighting, have a whole tradition of molesting little boys. I believe there is a traditional Afghan song about the practice with lyrics that go, “There is a boy across the river with a bottom like a peach...”
And the Third Reich was rife with homosexuality and favoritism between homosexual commanders at every level.
Officially both of these groups forbid homosexuality but in actuality it is or was very prevalent.
>When the researchers explained to the locals what homosexuality was the locals laughed in an embarrassed way clearly not seeing any point to homosexuality.<
No doubt. I would LOL too if I knew such a sick and screwed up condition existed.
Same sex relationships in islamic societies are prevalent. Homosexualty was rampant amongst Nazi leadership. That both islamic societies and the nazis could persecute their homosexual kinsmen can be seen as little different than "gay bashing" which appears to be disproportionately gay-on-gay violence.
Based on my observations, if Islam weeded out all homos there would not be many people left in that part of the world.
What do different cultures tell us
about homosexuality?
The huge variety of sexual expressions in different cultures sharing essentially the same genes shows genetic influence is minimal.
In 1994, an Italian-American geneticist, Cavalli-Sforza,
published a huge genetic atlas;the outcome of a monumental study of the genetic characteristics of different ethnic groups. He found that the human race was remarkably homogeneous, genetically. The more genes his team studied, the more they found all ethnic groups shared them. Cavalli-Sforza eventually studied fifty genes, and found that all ethnic groups had most of them. His conclusion was that, in spite of superficial differences, e.g skin colour, the different races are essentially the same genetically. Later work shows in fact, that something between 99.7%and 99.9%of the genes in any two unrelated people are the same.
If all ethnic groups share almost all their genes, we can make two assumptions about any behaviour that is claimed to be genetically produced:
• It will be very predictable, very specific and similar all over the globe.
• It will be present at roughly the same percentage in all cultures.
We also know that many genes, maybe hundreds, are involved
in human behaviours, and that behaviours affected by many genes will change very slowly over very many generations.
That is, they will be very stable for centuries, with only minimal changes from generation to generation. This is true not only in families, but also in cultures.
But if we look at homosexuality, we find none of the characteristics of genetic properties.
• There is a huge variety of homosexual practices between cultures and even within them.
• The prevalence of homosexuality has varied considerably in different cultures. In some cultures, it has been unknown; in others, it has been obligatory for all males.
• There have been, and are, rapid changes in homosexual behaviour, even over a lifetime. Not only that, but entire types of homosexuality have disappeared over the course of just a few centuries.
In fact, anthropologists have found such huge variations in
heterosexual and homosexual practice from culture to culture, and such sudden changes in sexual practice and orientation, even over a single generation, that they mostly want to say that all sexual behaviour is learned. In the words of one writer J. Rostand, “In the secret coming together of two human bodies, all society is the third
presence.”
http://www.mygenes.co.nz/PDFs/Ch6.pdf
Any animal that desires to survive genetically does not involve itself with homosexuality.
“Many societies, such as Islam and the old Third Reich, tend to “weed” out the gay crowd. They cull the herd if you will.”
Islam does NOT weed out the gay people. They change the definition of ‘gay’. In Saudi and other countries you are only gay if you receive. The other guy is only doing whats natural.
Further there are many muslim countries where cabin boys are very common. Older men search for young boys 9-12 years old and use them for sex.
If anything Islam breeds sexual perversion.
“Many societies, such as Islam and the old Third Reich, tend to “weed” out the gay crowd. They cull the herd if you will.”
You got to be kidding...the hierarchy of both groups are almost exclusively homosexual. That is there true motivation.
First they’ll have to learn the Aka word for “zucchini.”
Damn! I really struck a hot button. I was only going by the pictures of homos hanging from cranes in Tehran and the delightful experience resulting in the extermination of Ernst Rohm’s fabulous brownshirts once Uncle Adolf decided that the useful idiots were no longer required by the Nazis.
Long ago I was told by some Afghani friends that the Mullahs...especially those around Kandahar where Mullah Omar is from have a long standing tradition of keeping boys for sex. The practice goes back hundreds of years...or longer. I really think everything about Islam breeds perversion and abuse in human relations.
Long ago I was told by some Afghani friends that the Mullahs...especially those around Kandahar where Mullah Omar is from have a long standing tradition of keeping boys for sex. The practice goes back hundreds of years...or longer. I really think everything about Islam breeds perversion and abuse in human relations.
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