# Sex with an Amazon **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 5, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474 "2006-08-05T18:07:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FormerMarineGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/65b543/32.png) [@FormerMarineGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FormerMarineGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/1 "2006-08-05T18:07:36Z")
Every time I watch one of those shows on the Discovery channel, it is always in the back of my mind about what it would be like to have sex with one of the local women. I know I used the word Amazon, but this could be a tribe in Africa, South America, anywhere. Would sex be different with one of these women? What crazy customs are out there that our society might find different (at least from the ‘norms’ of our society)? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/2 "2006-08-05T18:28:04Z")
I would say the odds of being speared by a relative are much higher than for women in the US. Which is why I’ve never tried. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/3 "2006-08-05T18:30:14Z")
Yes in Africa, but there is a warning: A TMI warning: In Southern African regions, it is preferred to have sex with the least lubrication possible, in other words, no k-jelly to be seen for miles. > **[Home](https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en.html)** > > The intelligence, technology, and human expertise you need to find trusted answers. > [@](#): > > Dry sex, where women put herbs and potions in the vagina to make it hot, tight and dry, provokes lesions that make HIV infection easier. That custom is one of the reasons why AIDS is so common in Africa. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/4 "2006-08-05T18:43:24Z")
> [@FormerMarineGuy](#): > > Every time I watch one of those shows on the Discovery channel . . . There’s your problem, right there. ---
**Author:** ![FormerMarineGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/65b543/32.png) [@FormerMarineGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FormerMarineGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/5 "2006-08-05T18:56:00Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > In Southern African regions, it is preferred to have sex with the least lubrication possible, in other words, no k-jelly to be seen for miles. > That custom is one of the reasons why AIDS is so common in Africa. I have never heard of this before. This would definitely be different. Maybe I should try this at home. It would be a nice version of ‘role-playing’. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/6 "2006-08-06T00:13:19Z")
Sorry - I only looked in here to see if you meant a forest or a river… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/7 "2006-08-06T00:18:34Z")
Now, rise your hand who thought about that episode of Futurama. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/8 "2006-08-06T01:34:53Z")
In all things Amazon, the big problem is the reviews/referrals: Customers who had sex with this woman also screwed… ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/9 "2006-08-06T01:47:10Z")
I’ve wondered this about the people who were (the american continent) when the europeans arrived. From what I’ve read, outside of fiction, friendly pairings of european men with indian women weren’t all that common. Many tribes had very strict marriage rules. mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/10 "2006-08-06T03:09:41Z")
The _coureurs de bois_ Went for the squaw. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/11 "2006-08-06T03:19:12Z")
> [@FormerMarineGuy](#): > > It would be a nice version of ‘role-playing’. I’m sure that would go over well “Okay, for tonight honey, I want to try something new. Here’s a bag of sand and leaves and stuff and I want you to put them…” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/12 "2006-08-06T03:21:18Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > Now, rise your hand who thought about that episode of Futurama. 🙂 The spirit is willing but the flesh is spongy and bruised. My _first_ thought involved Wonder Woman. I got to _Futurama_ shortly thereafter. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/13 "2006-08-06T03:25:23Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Yes in Africa, but there is a warning: > > A TMI warning: > > In Southern African regions, it is preferred to have sex with the least lubrication possible, in other words, no k-jelly to be seen for miles. > > [Home | Thomson Reuters](http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/aidsfeature.htm) > > That custom is one of the reasons why AIDS is so common in Africa. For the love of god, WHY?! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/14 "2006-08-06T03:30:19Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > For the love of god, WHY?! For those times when female genital mutilation just isn’t enough. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/15 "2006-08-06T04:26:35Z")
> [@FormerMarineGuy](#): > > Every time I watch one of those shows on the Discovery channel, In the pre Discovery Channel days, we had to use National Geographic magazines. The librarian at the grade school I attended use to put round white stickers over the naughty bits. Of course, we would just draw them back on. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/16 "2006-08-06T05:24:07Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > I’ve wondered this about the people who were (the american continent) when the europeans arrived. From what I’ve read, outside of fiction, friendly pairings of european men with indian women weren’t all that common. Many tribes had very strict marriage rules. > mangeorge I don’t think this is true at all. In fact, it’s the opposite of true. There are numerous reports of sex, marriage, and all relationships in between that occurred whenever men and women mixed, including the Americas. [Mestizos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mestizo), the descendents of mixed Spanish and Indian couples, are probably the most numerous single group in most central and south american nations. > [@](#): > > Mestizos are thought to make up the majority of the populations of Chile (65%), Colombia (58%), Ecuador (65%), El Salvador (90%), Honduras (90%), Mexico (70%), Nicaragua (69%), Panama (70%), Paraguay (95%) and Venezuela (67%). Noth American liaisons, first with the French traders and trappers, and later with American frontiersmen, were equally common. There is always sex. And to answer the OP, there are only so many basic ways to have sex. Nobody would be surprised by anything either side of the couple suggested. When and where might have constraints or the lack of them, but the basic sex acts are pretty much universal. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/17 "2006-08-06T08:37:46Z")
> [@Exapno Mapcase](#): > > I don’t think this is true at all. In fact, it’s the opposite of true. There are numerous reports of sex, marriage, and all relationships in between that occurred whenever men and women mixed, including the Americas. > > [Mestizos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mestizo), the descendents of mixed Spanish and Indian couples, are probably the most numerous single group in most central and south american nations. For that matter, many people consider [La Malinche](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinche) to be the mother of Mexico, and she was just one of twenty slave girls given as a gift to the Cortés and his fellow Spaniards. Joys of “grinding corn” bedamned, those girls weren’t just making tortillas. Of course, it could be argued that relations between the slaves and their captors weren’t friendly, but that didn’t prevent the production of children, which leads some modern people of Mexican descent to call themselves “hijos de la chingada”–basically, “children of the fucked,” referring to the rape of Mexico, both metaphorically and literally. And I opened this thread expecting a discussion of Greek mythology, with maybe a detour to burning off breasts and killing male children. Boy, was I surprised! ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/18 "2006-08-06T09:05:32Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > Now, rise your hand who thought about that episode of Futurama. 🙂 \< raises hand \> Especially all the skeletons with pulverized pelvises. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/19 "2006-08-06T18:18:59Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > The _coureurs de bois_ > Went for the squaw. The [Métis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9tis_people_%28Canada%29) were the result: > [@Wikipedia](#): > > The Métis (pronounced “MAY tee”, IPA: ['mejti], in French [me’tis] or [me’tsɪs], in Michif [mɪ’cɪf]) are one of three recognized Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Their homeland consists of the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario, as well as the Northwest Territories. The Métis Homeland also includes parts of the northern United States (ie. North Dakota, and Montana). The Métis Nation consists of descendants of marriages of Woodland Cree, Ojibway, Saulteaux, and Menominee aboriginals to French Canadian and/or Celtic settlers (usually Scottish or Irish). Their history dates to the mid-seventeenth century. Historically, many (but not all) Métis spoke a mixed language called Michif. Michif is a phonetic spelling of the Métis pronunciation of Métif, a variant of Métis. The Métis today predominantly speak English with French as a strong second language. The encouragement and use of Michif is growing due to outreach within the provincial Métis councils after at least a generation of decline. > > The word Métis (the singular, plural and adjectival forms are the same) is French, and a cognate of the Spanish word mestizo. It carries the same connotation of “mixed blood”; traced back far enough it stems from the Latin word mixtus, the past participle of the verb “to mix”. . ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/20 "2006-08-06T19:21:55Z")
> [@Exapno Mapcase](#): > > I don’t think this is true at all. In fact, it’s the opposite of true. There are numerous reports of sex, marriage, and all relationships in between that occurred whenever men and women mixed, including the Americas. > > [Mestizos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mestizo), the descendents of mixed Spanish and Indian couples, are probably the most numerous single group in most central and south american nations. > > Noth American liaisons, first with the French traders and trappers, and later with American frontiersmen, were equally common. There is always sex. > > And to answer the OP, there are only so many basic ways to have sex. Nobody would be surprised by anything either side of the couple suggested. When and where might have constraints or the lack of them, but the basic sex acts are pretty much universal. Could be. By “friendly pairings”, I meant consentual and desired by both individuals. I assume the OP is daydreaming about willing partners. There were (are) a lot of offspring from slaves and their “owners” in the southern US, but I doubt that most were of truly friendly matings, where both parties wanted the relationship. The same would hold, I think, for those in Central and South America. And Mexico. I thought that the liaisons with the trappers, et al, were the exception and not the rule, and largely a product of popular white fistion. Also, I seem to remember reading a lot about mail order brides, and women brought from back home. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474.md?page=2)