Critique: Too Much In Mangaia by Donald S. Marshall, focuses upon "Sex-sex for pleasure and sex for procreation is a principal concern of the Polynesian people.
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Sarah Pinsonneault September 18, 2002 Critique: Too Much In Mangaia Too Much In Mangaia by Donald S. Marshall, focuses upon "Sex-sex for pleasure and sex for procreation is a principal concern of the Polynesian people. The author's main arguments are that the Mangaian culture is based on physical needs rather than the emotional needs. In the Mangaian theory children play with each other until the age of three or four. Between the ages four and five the children are separated into sex-age groups, thus distinguishing the children for the rest of their lives. Rarely are young boys bottom and penis covered except when they are in church. Boys may first over hear their elders talking of masturbation when they are around seven. Masturbation is not really accepted in Mangaia but the punishments are not hard. Mangaian boys do not commence their sexual escapades until the age of thirteen or fourteen and have undergone...


