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blog 32

blog subject:

Outline the social rules concerning sexual relationships among your people group.

 

reading:

 

resource questions for blog research:

sexual relations

Who taught man the art of sex relations?
Is it necessary to abstain from sexual relations before war? Why?
How do people feel about romantic love, being alone, pleasure, family pride, friendliness, achievement, communal solidarity?
Who performs abortion?
For what reasons is abortion justified?
How is abortion practiced?
What is the attitude towards abortion?
May a pregnant woman continue to have sex relations? What about a nursing woman or a menstruating woman?
Who takes the initiative in sexual relations?
Where may sex relations be practiced? When? How often?
Which would be considered worse, for a girl to sleep with a married man, or with an unmarried youth?
What is done with the premarital child? The extra-marital child?
How are the results of sexual relations dealt with? (e.g. ritual washing to be made clean) Do both men and women have to do it?
How are sexual relations perceived? (do they make you unclean? Leave “fire” in the body?)
Why does a woman become unfaithful to her husband?
Why does a man become unfaithful to his wife? (bewitchment? Too strong sex drive? Stolen by another woman?)