@todayilearned Today I learned about the “village homosexual” in Tahitian culture who is always available when there are no women.

Screenshot is from David Gilmore’s* “Manhood in the Making”.

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* No, not that David Gilmore.

  • Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    So there is a sociological explanation for Daffyd Thomas being the only gay in the village.

    Strange how the lonely “village homosexual” wasn’t so much lonely when the women were unavailable.