--- Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
* In anthropological literature, homosexual acts that are mandated for all men are sometimes called "institutional homosexuality." An example of it is young men sucking older men in Papua New Guinea as a part of the prescribed coming-of-age rituals, the symbolic power of semen thus being passed from the older to the younger generation.
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I don't think it's symbolic. It's a literal belief that "manly" traits like courage are contained in semen. Also, because it is believed that the amount of semen is finite, ejaculating drains it from you and so enervates you, which is why women live longer than men. Or so said the Cultures of Oceania professor I had as an undergrad in the early 90s.
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