Sexual Practices of the Mangaia essays

Sexual Practices of the Mangaia essays Mangaia is an island in the South Pacific where sexual practices are much different than in the United States. In Mangaia girls are raised and encouraged and sleep with multiple partners. The usual expectation is for a girl to have 3 or 4 boyfriends from the time she is 13 until she is 20. Every woman is taught at a young age how to achieve an orgasm. Males on the other hand are taught at a young age how to bring a female to an orgasm through oral sex. At 13 when a boy has had his training and been told how to do things he is then given a sexual partner that is an older and experienced woman. This woman teaches the boy various sexual positions and techniques slow down the arrival of his orgasm until the woman is able to reach her orgasm first. This practice is very foreign to me. It does not really disgust me or anything like that but I could not imagine having someone sit down and explain how to do many of these things. When I was 13 I probably would have thought that it would be pretty cool to be given a girl and told to have sex with her. I think problems would arise however in deciding who the father of a child was if a girl with multiple partners had a baby. In the United States, most people would view this as unhealthy or unethical. Many people would claim this to be morally wrong. Pre-marital sex is seen by lots of people here as a disturbing practice. Encouraging your daughter to have sex and being proud of her for having multiple partners would be very uncommon in the US. Most Americans would see this practice as being gross or irresponsible on the parts of adults in the Mangaia society. ...