Note about sex in Bali

Sex doesn't appear to rear much of a head on the Bali scene. As against the statement I read that virginity after . puberty was practically unknown", more than one Balinese guide I talked to maintained that most girls of nineteen-the age when they commonly get married-were virgins. Separation of the sexes before marriage is traditional although it is breaking, down in Denpasar In the villages you don*t see boy-girl togetherness and never a young couple holding hands-although it is all right for men to do that. Male hand-holding might suggest a high incidence of homosexuality; but that is not at all the case, I was assured. "Playing around" between adolescent males who not considered uncommon, my informants said; but exclusive homosexuality in males. such as is not unusual in Western society, is in Bali virtually unknown.

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