Post #712445 by TikiTacky on Sat, Mar 29, 2014 10:26 AM

Here's a very interesting article on sexual practices in pre-contact Hawaii: http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/biblio/articles/2000to2004/2004-sexual-behavior-in-pre-contact-hawaii.html

Some highlights:

• Men and women all had a special "chant" that was given them to describe their genitals.
• Aside from father/daughter and mother/son incest, there were very few sexual acts that were kapu. Sex between adults and children, homosexual acts, polygamy, polyandry—their sexual hangups were few, and sex was generally considered a good thing no matter the circumstance. The word for orgasm, le'a, is the same as for fun or joy.
• The adults would train the children in the art of pleasing their partners, and apparently quite effectively.
• Women would prepare the infant males for future ritual genital cutting by blowing into their penises.

Is it any wonder that the early explorers who landed here thought it paradise, or that the missionaries worked so hard to convert the "heathens"?