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To: Mrs. Don-o

Anthropologists don’t have a good track record getting the streight poop on this topic from “native” people.


3 posted on 12/06/2012 12:30:08 PM PST by DManA
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To: DManA
Well, that's true. It's pretty well known (or should be better known) that the Samoans provided loosey-goosey free-love info to Margaret Mead because they could tell that's what she was looking for.

On the other hand, these particular anthropologists don't seem to be pursuing the "primitive people are polymorphously perverse like the peaceful loving bonobos" line. And it should be more-or-less verifiable as to whether they have words for homosexuality and masturbation in their vocabularies. Reportedly, they don't.

5 posted on 12/06/2012 12:35:09 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("God bless the child that's got his own." Billie Holiday / Arthur Herzog Jr)
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To: DManA
Fair use...

6 posted on 12/06/2012 12:41:10 PM PST by twister881
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To: DManA

“Anthropologists don’t have a good track record getting the streight poop on this topic from “native” people.”

Yes, or reporting unbiased results.


20 posted on 12/06/2012 1:54:26 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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