On Apr 30, 6:42*am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
"Robert M. Gary" wrote :

On Apr 29, 7:09*am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Larry Dighera wrote
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"Irrational beliefs ultimately lead to irrational acts."

That's what believeing in a virgin birth will get you.

"Mom, dad, I swear I'm a virgin"

There's a tribe somewhere, I think it's in the so. pacific, who doesn't
know the facts of life. At least they didn't about thirty years ago when
@I heard of this first.They believe that once a couple is married,they
have babies, period. The sex thing doens't cause it at all. As evidence,
they point ouf that they have a number of albino women that it is
forbidden to have sex with, punishable by death. These women have babies
and noone would be crazy enough to sleep with them, right?
The other bit of evidence they have is that women almost never get
pregrant before they are married even though pre-marital sex is
commonplace. That one's a bit harder to explain...

I wish I could remember who they were or where they were. i can't seem
to find anything about them on the net..


This mayt help:

Adolescence in Pacific Island Societies, edited by Gilbert Herdt and
Stephen C Leavitt. ASAO Monograph 16. Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 1998. ISBN cloth, 0-8229-4068-X; paper, 0-8229-
5672-1; xii + 239 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, US$50.00;
paper, US$22.95.

Mrs. Bunyip may wonder what you are up to when/if it replaces your
usual bedside reading...

Cheers