In the survey "Other Times, Other Customs", the author explains that there is a
             enormous variation in human sexual practices, in both the activites that were allowed
             and the concepts used to make sense of the them. During the course of the survey, the
             author touches base on four major components of how homosexual behavior, in
             certain societies, may have been institutionalized. The four components are
             Age-structured homosexuality, Cross-gender homosexuailty, Role specialized
             homosexuality, and Egalitarian homosexuality. All four are related in regards to
             homosexual behavior, but are different in regards to the groups of people and the
             The first component the author talks about is "Age-structured homosexuality".
             An example of this is offered in the culture of various parts of Melanesia. Young boys
             were taken from their homes and placed in houses a short distance from their villages.
             At these houses they were denied all contact with females and they prepared for
             manhood by the transmission of semen with older men. The young boys had to be the
             receiver of the transmission. When these boys got older, their roles are reversed and
             they become the givers of the transmission. Could this behavior be damaging to their
             characters, and make them feel insecure? I want to beleive that these behaviors only
             made them stronger, but I also want to beleive that they had a choice not to engage in
             the behavior if they did not want to. These acts were done, in an attempt to make sure
             these boys developed "proper male values such as courage, proficiency in hunting, and
             the ability to dominate women"(26) Should these boys really be taught how to
             dominate women? I do not think that boys should be taught that. This survey states
             nothing about these behaviors only being practiced in the past. I thought by now,
             women all over the globe have realized
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