Introduction: Sexual Cultures, Strange and Familiar -- 1. Songs in the Key of Life -- 2. Sambia Sexual Culture -- 3. Fetish and Fantasy in Sambia Initiation -- 4. Sambia Nosebleeding Rites and Male Proximity to Females -- 5. Semen Depletion and the Sense of Maleness -- 6. Father Presence and Ritual Homoeroticism: Paternal Deprivation and Masculinity in Melanesia Reconsidered -- 7. Developmental Discontinuities and Sexual Orientation across Cultures -- 8. Mistaken Sex: Culture, Biology, and the Third Sex in New Guinea -- 9. Representations of"Homosexuality": Cultural Ontology and Historical Comparison
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-315) and index