Talk:Simbari people

Needs more info, not of a sexual nature

It seems that everything revealed about these people has to do with their sexuality. Surely there is more to say! They do have lives outside of their sexuality, and so a description of their culture and religion is fitting.

Also, page 237 of Armande Marie Leroi's Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body discusses the Sambia people. It would seem that they frequently misassign children at birth as females who, at puberty, turn out to be male (male pseudohermaphroditism).

Philologick (talk) 00:12, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Judgemental language

Much of the language here is of a very judgemental, western nature. Examples of this are: 1. "The boys are then taken to a cult house" "cult house"...really? This is the primary religion among the Sambia people, and hardly counts as a "cult". 2 "They also learn gender roles, and how to have appropriate intercourse" This implies that anything other than heterosexual intercourse is inappropriate, something even most western nations do not ascribe to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.90.85.9 (talk) 15:00, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

They take boys from their mothers and force them to have intercourse with other young teenagers. I'd argue that that's something that can determine cultism. EytanMelech (talk) 15:53, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

Repetitive with very little information

Just concurring with the views above, and noting more specifically that the current third paragraph mostly rephrases information already provided earlier, without seeming to know that these things were already said. If anyone has a moment to look at the scholarship cited and any other anthropological/linguistic/sociological work that's out there, I'm sure it will be an easy task to lose the exoticizing tone (which is offensive), and probably also to provide a little basic information on aspects of this culture beyond cultural practices of sexuality (which I admit are interesting, but slipping into "prurient interest" is a misstep). 2fennario (talk) 00:47, 8 July 2019 (UTC)2fennario

Sequential bisexuality.

I was quoting from https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=4qrrAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA357&lpg=PA357&dq=biology+of+bisexuality+van+wyk&redir_esc=y&hl=en#v=onepage&q=biology%20of%20bisexuality%20van%20wyk&f=false — Preceding unsigned comment added by LoganBlade (talk • contribs) 20:34, 13 August 2020 (UTC)