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In reply to the discussion: Where Masturbation and Homosexuality Do Not Exist [View all]The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)14. Suspicion Is Not Certainty, Sir
The article, however, refers only to interviews, and people's replies on sexual matters are notoriously unreliable. People are apt to state their behaviors jibe with the norms of their culture, whatever they might actually be. The record of anthropologists' reports of various primitive idylls, regarding both sex and violence, has been pretty poor; the stories generally do not age well, as more numerous and more varied examinations follow up the initial claims.
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One Suspects, Sir, Close Observation, Rather Than Questioning, Might Give Other Results....
The Magistrate
Dec 2012
#1
you can tell from this one article and some initial conclusions they aren't doing their job right?
snooper2
Dec 2012
#3
MIL wasnt attractive. daughter, then four boys. last two gay. i read fruther along
seabeyond
Dec 2012
#29
Actually, studies show that people who have frequent sex masturbate more than people who have
FSogol
Dec 2012
#8
So these people asked members of an African tribe whether or not they masturbated.
Nye Bevan
Dec 2012
#10
If some foreign researchers came to my town and started asking people whether they masturbated,
Nye Bevan
Dec 2012
#18
I agree. Probably closer to 20 than 30 but it can be hard to tell with someone in such good shape.
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#17
Naturally, it wouldn't matter to me if I was the only gay person in the world.
closeupready
Dec 2012
#20
wouldn't it be possible that in isolated communities a particular gene does not express?
La Lioness Priyanka
Dec 2012
#24