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Among the Aranda aborigines (Central Australia), "Pederasty is a recognized custom.... Commonly a man, who is fully initiated but not yet married, takes a boy ten or twelve years old, who lives with him as his wife for several years, until the older man marries".[1]

References

  1. Ford, C. S., & Beach, F. A. (1951). Patterns of sexual behavior. New York: Harper & Row