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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry |
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sexual conversational etiquette |
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Between men and women of intermarrying clans or morung, there prevails on the other hand the fullest freedom to "talk sex" and jokes with which the young people amuse each other at the nightly gatherings in the girls' clubs are often exceedingly risque and crude. Thus we find that the Konyak -- like many a man of more civilized lands -- adjusts his conversation to his company, at times indulging in the most ribald talk and at times covering sex with prudish silence. |
