Sex Rules!: Astonishing Sexual Practices and Gender Roles Around the World (Understanding Human Sexuality, Women & Power, Sex and Gender Identity) - Softcover

Brodman, Janice Zarro

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ISBN 10: 1633535932 ISBN 13: 9781633535930

Verlag: TMA Press, 2017

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#1 Best Seller in Trivia & Fun Facts, Questions & Answers, Curiosities & Wonders, and Cults & Demonism ─ Think You Know About Sexual Customs Around Our World? Have Fun and Enjoy Some Surprises!

This book is a humorous glimpse of a wide range of stereotype-busting sexual, relationship and romantic mores around the world. It is fun, interesting, and eye-opening! For example, places where women control the mating game, set marriage rules, and marry one another for political power. The fact that it's all true also makes it fascinating. Take a romp through a rollicking worldwide tour with LOL views of extraordinary sexual customs. It will astound and regale you. At the same time, it proves sex is like happiness – universally sought but subjectively enjoyed.

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With 24 years as a groundbreaking international development expert, Janice Zarro Brodman has lived, worked or traveled in 35 countries. After earning her PhD in political economy from Harvard University, she created and served as Director of the Center for Innovative Technologies at EDC, a global nonprofit organization founded by MIT scholars. Her projects for the UN, World Bank, and other international organizations focused on small business development and on ending violence against women and girls. As an innovator in using technology for international development, Dr. Brodman has written seminal articles published by The MIT Press, Idea Group Publishing, Harvard Institute for International Development, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Computerworld, Organizational Behavior, and Quest. She has been a frequent speaker at United Nations agencies, the World Bank, the US Agency for International Development, and other organizations. She researched hundreds of sources for Sex Rules! so that however weird, bizarre, and unreal the book’s content may seem, it’s all absolutely true. Her aim is to delight people who reject the notion that “there’s only one way to be sexually moral,” and to give tolerance a fun place to grow.

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Sex Rules!

Astonishing Sexual Practices and Gender Roles Around the World

By Janice Zarro Brodman

Mango Media, Inc.

Copyright © 2017 J. Zarro Brodman
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-63353-593-0

Contents

Introduction, 
Sex, Lies, and Virgins' Tastes or How to Pick a Lover, 
Is that a vibrator in your pocket, or are you glad to see me?, 
Make love, not war, 
Sugar in the evening ..., 
Don't yap about your yoni, 
Real dirty dancing ..., 
Keep those wholesome family traditions, 
Looking for a few good men!, 
Girls just wanna have fun!, 
Men are from Venus, Women are from Mars ..., 
Sex scrooges need not apply ..., 
"Position open. Experience preferred ...", 
You may kiss the brides ..., 
Junk Match.com!, 
Obey your elders!, 
Ditch the steroids ..., 
Make love ... and war, 
Readin', writin' and ... sex?, 
A boy and his soa ..., 
Land of the free, home of the party!, 
Crotch-grabbers get lost!, 
World's most romantic country?, 
Not just another pretty face ..., 
Ya gotta love Sadie Hawkins Day, 
The "opposite" sex?, 
What's the most beautiful part of a woman?, 
Wrestling for love, 
Happy meals for real, 
Marriage and Other Mysteries, 
Only gold diggers need apply, 
Great winter games, 
I'll always be true to you, darling, in my fashion ..., 
Tired of men?, 
Rules of engagement, 
All in the family ..., 
Test drive your marriage, 
Lifetime bachelor party, 
The first "Wives Club", 
Marry the strong, silent type, 
Love, better than a blanket ..., 
Meetin' in the Garden of Eatin', 
For the woman who wants to have it all, 
Foxy Lad(y) or Dress for Success, 
Don't be a yahoo, be a Mahu!, 
Hate that suit and tie?, 
Who wears the nose rings in your family?, 
Classic styles for men, 
The World's best-dressed choirboys ..., 
Redheads have more fun ..., 
In the Eye of the Beholder, 
Somewhere in this world you're a perfect 10 ..., 
Pull yourself into prettiness ..., 
The good and the beautiful, 
Somewhere on this planet, you're the perfect hunk ..., 
Better start workin' on that tan ..., 
Dieting? Who needs it?, 
Family Ties, 
Four letter words even Grandma wouldn't mind ..., 
The family that eats together ..., 
Kissing cousins, 
Hate those dishpan hands?, 
Barbie for boys, 
Little old lady power, 
It's wonderful, it's paradise ..., 
Prayers for pudenda, 
A special kiss on the cheek, 
Morning sickness for men, 
Sisterly love, 
Mother knows best ..., 
Selected Sources, 

CHAPTER 1

Sex, LIES, AND VIRGINS' TASTES OR HOW TO PICK A LOVER

I headed to India as a student in the '70s. The sexual revolution had declared victory back home in Boston. Sleeping with an attractive stranger was de rigueur. Living with your lover was expected. Sex before marriage the rule. They were the innocent days before HIV/AIDS.

Never before more than two hundred miles from home, I flew from Boston to Athens, crossed Greece, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India by motor boat, ferry, train, bus, and hippie van. A free spirit!

My first bias, and the most wrong-headed, was that people everywhere are pretty much the same. I wasn't a total fool. I knew some things would be different, like what you ate and how you dressed. I knew dating was forbidden in most countries. Parents arranged marriages, rarely with a woman's input or assent.

I knew I'd have to adjust. Just not how much.

Early on, near the Red Sea, I took refuge from the sun beneath the canopy of a Moroccan family's tent. I spoke no Arabic and they no English, so I held sketchy conversations with the mother in my shaky French. I must have made a good impression, because she soon asked how they could contact my parents. She announced — with an indulgent smile — that she and her husband decided to marry her son to me. Sitting nearby, he flushed, astonished. Obviously, no one had consulted him. The bride-price, she declared confidently: eighteen camels and six goats. Surely my parents couldn't refuse.

I stuttered in fractured French: It was very generous of her, and of course I was delighted. But I — not my parents — would decide whom I'd marry. Although I liked her very much and thought her son quite handsome (I could say nothing of his intelligence and wit, as he'd been mute the entire afternoon), I was not prepared to marry him or anyone else.

She was patently skeptical.

The next day, I was pleased with my skillful handling of another culture. It didn't take long to realize I didn't have a clue. The extremes I was about to experience — in every direction — would enrage, awe, humble, and sometimes terrify me.

Weeks later, in Afghanistan, I entered another world. Even pre-Taliban, the women were specters eclipsed in full-length black cloth, their eyes trapped behind dark grilles. Despite the glaring heat, I had dressed carefully in a dark, shapeless, long-sleeved shirt, a loose, black, ankle-length skirt, and a scarf covering my hair. I was as sexy as a sack of rice.

Much good it did. When the public bus from Kandahar to Kabul stopped so we passengers could relieve ourselves, I followed the local custom and found a boulder that I could squat behind in "private."

The man who jumped me was sure that I wouldn't scream, and, even if I did, no one would respond. When I jabbed an elbow into his chest he dropped his hold, more out of astonishment than pain, as if, about to bite into a potato, it had shoved him away. I ran.

It was my first gut-level experience of women's subjugation to men, but not my last. That many men expect, and get, utter compliance, was no great shock — except to my self-assurance.

Equally astonishing, and far happier, were the opposite experiences. They transformed everything I "knew" about women and men. Women ruling the seduction game, aggressively wooing coquettish men, setting (and resetting) the terms of marriage — were a revelation. "Normal" mating took on a whole new meaning as I came to know my neighbors around the globe.

CHAPTER 2

Is that a vibrator in your pocket, or are you glad to see me?

Who's more obsessed with sex, men or women? Now there's a no-brainer, declare the Biwat of Papua New Guinea: Women!

Women, they explain, are ruled by uncontrollable lust. No normal woman can smother her incessant, raging desire for sex ...much less wait for marriage.

Papua New Guinea is crazy diverse, with over 850 totally different societies in a country the size of California. The Biwat live deep in PNG's rainforest and swamps, in tiny villages along the fertile banks of the Yuat River. The main crop is betel, a lovely little drug plant that gives a nice buzz, boosts energy, and enjoys a thriving market in towns. The Biwat themselves don't use betel much. They have better things to do.

Though the men claim to want only virgins, young Biwat women polish their skin with oil, dress in their sexiest grass skirts, and are constantly cruising for new lovers — even after they are engaged to be married. See someone cute in his flying foxskin loincloth nicely decorated with shells? Getting to know him well enough for a roll in the woods takes about three seconds. As long as she's even the slightest bit discreet, everyone happily ignores her little lapses.

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: TMA Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1633535932
• ISBN 13: 9781633535930
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 282
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