"Supposedly what he witnessed were accepted culturally in those countries and he wrote about it."
Perhaps, but this stuff was over the top and waaaaay beyond what would be necessary to convey anything like that to the reader, this is sick.........
"He saw the invitation with every bouncing breast and curved hip. . . . He was thirteen. . . . She was fifteen . . . . In a few moments she drew him to her and he murmured in his quiet voice, 'I am still small.' 'You are large enough,' she answered. And he found he was."
Oh I agree it was sick stuff! But that was Webb's excuse for it.