Let's Embrace Sex Like The Peoples of Oceania Did Centuries Ago.

Hawaiians, the center of the Pacific Island peoples embraced sex among themselves as being positive and pleasurable. At an early age sex was taught as something wonderful and to not feel guilty, ashamed, or embarrassed by it. The peoples of Fiji, The Marquesas Islands, Tahiti, and other Polynesian cultures felt sex was a source of enjoyment and to embrace it as well. This article explains in detail how the cultures were in regards to nudity and sex.

Pacific Center for Sex and Society - Sexual Behavior in Pre-contact Hawai‘i

It's a fascinating read and opens ones eyes to the Oceana world some 200 years ago. I found it interesting that a woman approached for sex was not offended but flattered by the proposition. That along with many customs and traditions surrounding sex and nudity seems to have made these societies cohesive and peaceful in their existence.

 

That was an interesting read!

 

Then Christianity arrived on their shores and fucked it all up.

 

I would blame Christianity less and more on the thought that every other culture should be like yours. If it weren't Christianity influencing the explorers / missionaries whose twisted ideals felt every other way of life should be like theirs it would have been another. Religions such as Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Confucianism, Jainism, or Hinduism feel sex outside marriage impedes purity within the society and forbids it. Do I need to go on?

 

The hippie movement of the late 60's wasn't too bad. Lots of free love.

 

I once heard a minster say they problem with Christianity is that it has never figured out how to deal with sex in a positive, constructive way. Instead it's all about being dirty, naughty, nasty, evil, and wrong. Profound statement.

 

I know that I was told that sex was dirty and nasty and I should never (a) have sex with another boy, (b) do not have sex with a girl unless you love her (c) do not have sex until you're married, (d) do not have sex just to be having sex and (e) do not play with yourself down there.

I would eventually learn that this is what religion teaches and it's confusing to go from "don't have sex" to "this is the only way you can have sex" when yes, you should have sex and, yes, there's more than one way to have sex. I've read where a lot of places in the world had sexual practices like the article speaks to but then, missionaries arrived and messed with a culture's beliefs about sex (and sexuality) and make them conform with Christianity's notions of sex and with emphasis on the Old Testament's biblical laws regarding sex.

Or your way to have sex is wrong and ours is right - so you have to do it our way... or else.

 

This is the influence that was eventually how the world changed. Initially the pacific islanders welcomed the explorers including inviting them to have sex. The crew of the ships could not understand being allowed NSA sex with the women and would pay them anyway. It had been deeply engrained into their head that sex was supposed to be as @KDaddy23 said. Therefore the pussy became a bartering tool where before it wasn't.

Now think about how the world would be had those roles been reversed. Hawaiian explorers changing the worlds thoughts instead of the way it happened.

 

You'd think that after all this time, the world's prudish thoughts and behaviors toward sex would have gotten buried in a very deep hole and in favor of the way people were actually having sex and according to their customs. Religions, however, had a powerful hold over people and, yep, conform to our way of doing things or else (death, eternal damnation, the usual threats to one's existence). I've been reading - off and on - a book about how and when homosexuality impacted Africa and there were many instances where it was said that European missionaries brought homosexuality to African tribes that had no such sexual practices (but there were tribes that were reported to engage in homosexual-like behaviors already).

 

Yet, in the article it is mentioned that the Hawaiian culture embraced homosexual exploration among the young, both male and female, along with heterosexual teaching of the young by the elder peoples of the tribes.

 

Yes, and I wasn't all that surprised to read that!

 

I have often wondered if there are cultures or tribes out there today, that teach their youth how to properly have sex. Such as an elder aunt demonstrating her lady bits to young boys or girls. Not in a sick or perverse way. Just educational for the good of the family. Teaching them how to masturbate. In Modern society’s the youth just learn by experimenting when their hormones kick in.
Just curious I guess.

 

There are other cultures who do things in a way that would freak out the religions and seen as being evil. It was reading about such cultures that proved to me that the way we look at sex is way too prudish.

 

I totally agree.
I believe there would be a whole lot less juvenile problems, if they were taught, it’s ok to masturbate, and respect for the opposite sex. The human body is a temple of pleasure.

 

No need to wonder anymore. There are cultures or tribes who encourage their children to have sex as young as 8 years old. The Trobriand tribe of the Kiriwina Islands in New Guinea refused outside intervention and start their children at an early age. The Kreung tribe in Cambodia also support early childhood sex. Then there is the Mangaia tribe of the Cook Islands. They have a ritual where the pubertal age boys penis foreskin is split. Once this is done they are allowed to have as much sexual intercourse as they want. It's mostly with older women who will teach the boys how.

 

Well if you take that one step further with the adults the ones that teach and guide youth through these early feelings of desire and sexual curiosity they learn to bound and rely on the older and elders for insight and guidance.

Where as we “Christians” (among many others) pound into them it’s wrong and dirty and taboo to do all the things that are naturally driving their every thought process as a youngster….

No wonder they rebel against everything authoritarian. You are attempting to deprive and punish them for the most natural human function there is… .

Thanks for the link I have always been fascinated with Hawaiian culture - very interesting read and something we should take note of as westerners…. The troubles begin when we arrive…

 

Those are some very interesting customs- radically different than what's been taught in modern post-Christianity cultures. Someone on Reddit posted a historical article similar to Straightmale's, and a bunch of people immediately dismissed it as perverted fiction.

Not surprisingly, those are the same type of people who insist that young males swimming nude in front of female spectators never happened either. When I mentioned the "junior miss" portion of the informal beauty pageants that many French and Eastern European nudist clubs used to put on before they got woked and PCed out of existence, most of the reactions were ones of shock and revulsion.

I can't speak for everyone, but for me personally- if I had come of age back during the golden era of nude male swimming, I would find it kinda hot to be required to stand there butt ass naked in front of a bunch of my female classmates and teachers. Any initial embarrassment or awkwardness would be well worth the naughty thrill.

 

See, that part in the Book of Genesis where God asked Adam and Eve why they were hiding their nakedness and like they somehow "knew" that being naked was against the rules. If you do not teach the young that being naked is a bad thing, then being naked in any situation doesn't become a problem for them... until someone tries to get in the case about being naked and not being ashamed of it. Doesn't surprise me that people dismissed the article as perverted fiction because that's what we're taught to believe regarding any sex-related stuff that doesn't conform with what we were told to believe, so on and so forth.

The thing is that in almost all of those historical accounts, you'll find missionaries getting involved in a society's culture and trying to replace their culture with Christianity (usually).

 

The most interesting thing about the nude youth male swimming era is that it was at its peak during an otherwise very conservative era ( post WW2 ). Those people had very rigid, traditional ( and often oppressive ) attitudes regarding things such as race, religion, and gender roles. Despite this, most of them seemed to have little or no problem with a bunch of naked teenage boys and young men parading around in front of their wives, daughters, girlfriends, and little sisters. Youthful CFNM scenarios seemed to be the unofficial law of the land back then, whether it was competitive and recreational swimming, semi-public rural skinny dipping, open group physical exams for school, sports, or the military, or harmless pranks like streaking.

It's mostly all gone now. Activities such as the World Naked Bike Ride, the Folsom Street Fair, and the Nude Blacks rugby team from New Zealand are about as good as it gets nowadays. The miss and junior miss nudist pageants in France were shut down over a decade ago, mainly due to complaints from many people who were neither French nor even nudists!

 

I know that growing up, I skinny dipped and without a care in the world even though I knew that if some adults caught me doing it, there would be hell to pay. I'd go skinny dipping with my male friends and, occasionally, we'd have girls that would skinny dip with us and sex wasn't even part of the situation - just swimming and horsing around and having a good time with friends. I'd never say that sex wouldn't or couldn't happen, but you went skinny dipping because it felt good to swim without wearing trunks.

Adults could be so cotton-pickin' weird about being modest. Still, if all of those thigns you mentioned have gone by the wayside, you can probably point to religion's heavy-handed influence for why they no longer exist...