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[[File:John H. Fouch - Osh-Tisch, on the left, seated with a female companion, possibly The Other Magpie.png|thumb|center|The Crow <i>bate</i> Osh-Tisch ("Finds Them and Kills Them"), on the left, seated with a female companion, possibly The Other Magpie, a Crow warrior woman, ca. 1877–1878. Fort Keogh, Montana Territory, [[United States]]. Photograph by John H. Fouch.]]


From <i>Patterns of Sexual Behavior</i> by Clellan S. Ford and Frank A. Beach (New York: Harper & Brothers and Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., 1951).

<b>Note:</b> <i>The Crow term </i>bate<i> can be translated as "not man, not woman".</i><ref>Sabine Lang, <i>Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender in Native American Cultures</i>, trans. John L. Vantine (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998), p. 248.</ref>

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[[Sodomy]] apparently is absent among the Crow Indians, although [[Fellatio|oral-genital contacts]] are fairly frequent. A few Crow men adopt women’s dress and mannerisms, and live alone. [[Adolescence|Adolescent]] boys and occasionally older men visit these <i>bate</i>, as they are called. The <i>bate</i> stimulates the boy’s genitals orally. One informant stated that there were four such men in his community and that seventeen of his adolescent friends visited them occasionally.
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[[File:Pierre Joubert - Young Indians hunting.png|thumb|center|Young Indians hunting. Illustration by Pierre Joubert (1910–2002).]]

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==See also==
*[[Adult friend (dictionary)]]
*[[Age of attraction (dictionary)]]
*[[Boylove]]
*[[Ephebophilia]]
*[[Loved boy (dictionary)]]
*[[Minor-attracted person (dictionary)]]
*[[Pederasty]]
*[[Pedophilia]]
*[[Young friend (dictionary)]]


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