# Paedophilia

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paedophilia/670964>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 11, 2013, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paedophilia/670964 "2013-10-11T09:50:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paedophilia/670964/21 "2013-10-14T14:38:44Z")

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Relativist, I think.

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**Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paedophilia/670964/22 "2013-10-14T20:01:30Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> When I was in college I took a course in Cultural Anthropology. In it, the prof described a culture in which it was customary for a man to have sex with his pubescent daughter. This was considered a very loving and nurturing way of introducing the girl to sex, rather than leaving it up to her future husband, who may not be very gentle with her.
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> I don’t remember whether the prof was describing an actual culture, or whether it was just a hypothetical example to facilitate discussion. Has anyone heard of this? And if so, was there a similar custom involving women and their sons?

In the book, Humbert Humbert used the same line on Lolita.

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