# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alive_At_Both_Ends)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/21 "2006-08-06T21:40:52Z")
[QUOTE=FormerMarineGuy] What crazy customs are out there that our society might find different (at least from the ‘norms’ of our society)? [/QUOTE] It doesn’t involve women, but [this](http://faculty.mdc.edu/jmcnair/Joepages/The%20Sambia.htm) is what passes for normal in one New Guinea tribe. ---
**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 7, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/22 "2006-08-07T00:37:44Z")
[QUOTE=mangeorge] 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. [/QUOTE] Again, no. All the evidence is that the majority of relations between various Indian populations and Europeans were consensual. Slave matings are a totally different issue. I don’t know what your cites are for this, but it is simply not a figment of white authors’ imaginations. The historic, genetic, and anthropological evidence says that it was real. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/23 "2006-08-07T01:53:12Z")
No, i have no immediate cites, and it is slightly off-topic. Which is why I dropped it. I might, if I get a burst of energy, do some research. We are talking about early on, right? Before whites subdued the indian population? We’re messing with FMG’s high, I think. 😉 mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/24 "2006-08-07T07:07:56Z")
[QUOTE=Ale] Now, rise your hand who thought about that episode of Futurama. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Immediately. If I am guilty of such a frivolous association, then I request death by snoo-snoo. [Here’s a book](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0673982327/sr=1-1/qid=1154934093/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-7242497-0343225?ie=UTF8&s=books) which may be pertinent. I haven’t read it, so I don’t know if it mentions sexual activities in great detail. Anthropologist Ken Good writes about his marriage to a Yanomamo woman. ---
**Author:** ![jimbeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/858c86/32.png) [@jimbeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbeam)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/25 "2006-08-07T07:38:42Z")
[QUOTE=FormerMarineGuy] 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)? [/QUOTE] … getting pretty hard up huh? First of all you gotta do that penis in the tube thing. Then there’s bound to be something they’re gonna have to pierce and stick a bone through. An ear or the lip, maybe your nose or then there’s that penis in a tube thing again. You gotta smoke or drink some nasty shit that’ll make you drool and puke, see the future and who knows what else. After that you’ll have to eat some big gooey grub worms and rub some pig shit all over your body. A little face paint and then… finally, you can pick out some female with tits down to her knees and breath like \ I can’t even imagine. Of course with that big plate in her lip and drool running down her chin you’ll probably wanna pass on the lip service. But don’t worry, if you don’t get AIDS or who knows what else… you might just fall in love and have a big family. Not unlike some of our own customs huh? (reminds me of some goth chick I once knew) 😃 Although, that’s probably not the one of the tribes you were fantasizing about was it. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/26 "2006-08-07T11:05:52Z")
**jimbeam**. While this OP is pretty weird for General Questions, your comments were particularly out of place here, even though I know you were just doing parody. **samclem** ---
**Author:** ![jimbeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/858c86/32.png) [@jimbeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbeam)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/27 "2006-08-07T11:10:27Z")
[QUOTE=samclem] **jimbeam**. While this OP is pretty weird for General Questions, your comments were particularly out of place here, even though I know you were just doing parody. **samclem** [/QUOTE] You are right, I apologize. Didn’t realize this was GQ. Sorry ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/28 "2006-08-07T11:38:37Z")
I’ve read somewhere that in South America, anal sex between a man and a woman occurs (apparantly) more often than in North America/Europe as its seen as a means of contraception. No cite sadly. Didn’t think of that excellent episode of Futurama, but I did think of small quivering men being dragged off by large women into the rain forest 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FormerMarineGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/65b543/32.png) [@FormerMarineGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FormerMarineGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/29 "2006-08-07T12:37:55Z")
[QUOTE=samclem] **jimbeam**. While this OP is pretty weird for General Questions, your comments were particularly out of place here, even though I know you were just doing parody. **samclem** [/QUOTE] Weird, probably. Serious, definitely! **Jimbeam** , thanks for the laugh! ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/30 "2006-08-07T12:45:31Z")
[QUOTE=Pushkin] small quivering men being dragged off by large women into the rain forest 😃 [/QUOTE] (Snipped, to emphasize the good stuff.) I’m right here, Lynda Carter. Do me. :eek: mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/31 "2006-08-08T16:33:03Z")
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**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/32 "2006-08-08T17:00:12Z")
I recently read [Undaunted Courage](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684826976/sr=8-1/qid=1155056187/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-7623057-2303008?ie=UTF8), which details the Lewis and Clark expedition (it’s based on their journals and the journals and letters created by men in the crew). A belief prominent among various plains Native Americans (though not all) was that men of the tribe could gain some of the white men’s power if a white man had sex with one of their women. There were several instances of Lewis, Clark and others in the expedition being invited and/or pressured to have sex with the wife of a Native American. The husband would then have sex with her and take on some of the power of the guest. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/33 "2006-08-08T17:30:54Z")
My first thought was “You mean, how would the one boob thing work?” ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/34 "2006-08-08T17:50:23Z")
[QUOTE=Beadalin] I recently read [Undaunted Courage](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684826976/sr=8-1/qid=1155056187/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-7623057-2303008?ie=UTF8), which details the Lewis and Clark expedition (it’s based on their journals and the journals and letters created by men in the crew). A belief prominent among various plains Native Americans (though not all) was that men of the tribe could gain some of the white men’s power if a white man had sex with one of their women. There were several instances of Lewis, Clark and others in the expedition being invited and/or pressured to have sex with the wife of a Native American. The husband would then have sex with her and take on some of the power of the guest. [/QUOTE] When I read this (and the original journals) I made the unfounded assumption that these folks had a vague understanding of the need to add diversity to their gene pool. My assumption also applies to the practice of kidnapping women from other tribes. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/35 "2006-08-08T18:07:06Z")
I remember hearing somewhere that certain tribes in Africa find French kissing disgusting. Apparently there is a word for white people that translates to “Those who eat each other’s saliva.” Sadly, I have no cite. I can’t even remember if I read this or saw it on TV. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/36 "2006-08-08T18:12:20Z")
A while back, in response to somebody’s assertion about the Masai people in Kenya, I e-mailed my nephew, who was an eye surgeon/missionary in Kenya at the time. One of the things he wrote back about was their sexual customs. Premarital and extramarital sex is common among the Masai. A man could temporarily stake a sexual claim on a woman by simply planting his spear (his actual spear, not a figure of speech) by the door of her hut. This is true even for a married woman, presumably when her husband is out of town. The Masai are cattle herders by tradition, and it’s a rough life. The typical diet is a handful of grain per day. You may have read about them drinking a mixture of milk and cow’s blood, but that’s only for major ceremonies. My nephew said HIV is not yet a big problem in Kenya, but it’s only a matter of time. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474/37 "2006-08-08T18:16:33Z")
[QUOTE=Joey P] 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…” [/QUOTE] That’s another keyboard ruined.[size 1] wipes coffee off self and keyboard [/] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-an-amazon/367474.md?page=1)