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"The
psychosocial phenomenon of semen depletion - a culturally transmitted belief
that men's sexual contacts rob and empty them of their semen, maleness,
and eventually life itself - is known from premodern and preliterate societies,
including our own" (Herdt,
1999: 163)
"...it
is a truism that the vast majority of Sambia men developmentally experience
both modes - fellator and fellated - of homosexual activities. Although
initiates vary in their interests, most engage in fellation on a regular
basis. Furthermore, and although initiates, like youths, are initially
impelled into this act, their later participation (e.g., choice of partners,
frequency, interpersonal tone) is mostly a matter of personal interest.
Bachelors tend to engage regularly in homosexual fellatio. They seem (impressionistically)
excited by it, joking among themselves about especially attractive boys
whom they prefer as fellators, but are often willing or wanting to have
sex with any appropriate. Last, most youths continue homosexual practices
for as long as they can do so (until their wives' menarche or first birth),
having bisexual relationships for a time, whereupon those same men prefer
coitus once they have made the transition to heterosexuality" (Herdt,
1981: 282)
"Semen
is the substance closest to breast milk, and it provides the next sort
of ('biological') push that boys require. Elders reiterate that boys should
ingest semen every night, as if it were breast milk or food" (Herdt,
1981: 235).
"...the
'equation' concerns white 'milk-looking' substances treated as food (nu),
i.e., milk food solids (aamoonaalyu nu-tokeno). Both iku
'milk saps' (i-aamoonaalyu) and pandanus nuts (kunaal-aamoonaalyu)
are treated culturally, in ritual and in secular context, as mother's milk
(aamoonaalyu). In terms of this cultural category only one other
substance - semen - is treated as a precise equivalent or classed together
with mother's milk" (Herdt,
1981: 110).
Reisner,
Andrew (1994). The draining fantasy in male schizophrenics and in
normal Sambia Males. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 11(1), 63-75.
"Is it mere coincidence that some schizophrenic males associate semen with milk, and they fear being 'drained' of this 'semen/milk' during sexual intercourse, while across the globe, among the Sambia in New Guinea, men are apprehensive about being depleted of their 'limited supply' of semen, which they equate with mother's milk? Unlike Sullivan (1954) who suggested that schizophrenics are not 'strartlingly different from anybody else' (p. 206), many would prefer to complete dichotomize that which is 'schizophrenic' and that which is 'normal'" (Reisner, 1994: 63).
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