10-19-2007, 03:29 AM | #1 |
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cougjunkie, since you are the expert in this area
tell us how all of this works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa'afafine How do Mormon polynesians in particular deal with this. |
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I want to know why MW was looking at this.
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10-19-2007, 04:02 AM | #4 |
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I was watching tv the other day, maybe it was national geographic channel or something, and the promo to a show talked about this.
I had never heard of polynesian transsexuals before. btw, mikeli passed me the sacrament when he was a deacon (guam). |
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I note that this tradition, which I have heard of, apparently was never adopted among the Maori.
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Mike, isn't there evidence that suggests that in large families with lots of sons, those born later or last having a significantly higher chance of being gay? I wonder if that phenomenon (if true) had anything to do with the Fa'afafine? The article mentions that there is little evidence that the families raised these boys as girls because they had too many sons but rather :
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I wonder if this is evidence of the multiple brothers/statistically more likely to be born gay phenomenon. (*please note that I realize that not all gays are effiminate and/or have an interest in typically female roles/activities) |
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10-26-2007, 01:36 PM | #7 | |
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Harvey Unga was almost a victim of this practice:
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