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Tuesday 17 July 2012

Cambodian fathers build sex huts for their nine to 13-year-old daughters

Members of the Kreung tribe believe that women can be empowered by spending the night with different members of the opposite sex 

By Tom Goodenough

Courting rituals between lovestruck youngsters differ greatly from country to country.
In some places around the world, sex before marriage is considered a great taboo and the prospect of a teenage girl spending the night with her boyfriend remains highly unlikely.
But in one village in Cambodia, fathers go out of their way to encourage their daughters to have sex: by building them love huts.
Love shack? Attitudes towards sex in some villages in Cambodia remains extremely liberal
Love shack? Attitudes towards sex in some villages in Cambodia remains extremely liberal
Members of the Kreung tribe in the northeast of the country believe that women can be empowered through spending the night with different members of the other sex.
And when a girl reaches her early teenage years, or possibly even before, the love hut becomes the place for her to meet and get to know boys before deciding on her one true love.
The tribe believes the ancient practice is the best way for girls to find their future husbands.
The Kreung people have, however, moved on from their previous tradition of using a cocktail of alcohol and a centipede as a contraceptive, and now use condoms.
When a girl reaches her early teenage years, or possibly even before, the love hut becomes the place for her to meet and get to know boys before deciding on her one true love
When a girl reaches her early teenage years, or possibly even before, the love hut becomes the place for her to meet and get to know boys before deciding on her one true love

The love huts were filmed by a documentary crew in Cambodia
The love huts were filmed by a documentary crew in Cambodia
But in a country where HIV and AIDS remains prevalent, and where concerns are often raised about the exploitation of youngsters in sex trafficking cases, the idea of encouraging youngsters to have sex so openly remains surprising.
Communities in rural Cambodia continue to live close-knit existences to this day
Communities in rural Cambodia continue to live close-knit existences to this day
Nang Chan, a 17-year-old girl who now lives full time in the love hut in the back garden of her parent's house, believes they offer her, and other girls like her, a sense of empowerment, though.
'The huts provide us independence and are the best way through which we can explore our true lover,' she told Techpuffs.com.
'If I find some special boyfriend and we both love each other, then I'll get intimate with him and have sex in my hut.
'But if I stop loving him and find another boy that I see more attractive, then I'll stop having sex with my previous boyfriend.'
Dr Sudeepta Varma, speaking to National Geographic said that from a western perspective, love huts might be regarded as taboo as parents are usually looked upon as 'protectors' of a woman's virginity, and not promoters of it.
According to villagers, divorce and sexual violence in the community remains non-existent, and young women only engage in relationships with those they feel comfortable with.
Despite the liberal attitudes towards sex between unmarried youngsters, however, couples must save the privilege of being seen in the day together until they are happily engaged to be married.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice tradition. But don't get disease .

Anonymous said...

stupid tribe they should get wipe out.

Anonymous said...

Kreung Tribe knows how to solve Jewish problem !!!

“It is forbidden for a man to sleep alone in a house lest Lilith
get hold of him”. Lilith, in Jewish folk belief, was a
wild-haired succuba who had once been the wife of Adam.
She had refused to lie beneath him, as she claimed she was
his equal, and was banished to the Dead Sea where she
procreated demons. But her lust for humans continued
and a passage in the Zohar, a 13th-century Kabbalistic
text, describes her mode of operation:

She roams at night, and goes all about the world and makes
sport with men and causes them to emit seed. In every place
where a man sleeps alone in a house, she visits him and grabs
him and attaches herself to him and has her desire from him,
and bears from him. And she also afflicts him with sickness,
and he knows it not, and all this takes place when the moon
is on the wane (Patai, p. 233).

Afterward, she shows no remorse:

.she removes her ornaments and turns into a menacing figure.
She stands before him clothed in garments of flaming fire,
inspiring terror and making body and soul tremble, full of
frightening eyes, in her hand a drawn sword dripping bitter
drops. And she kills that fool and casts him into Gehenna [hell]
(Patai, p. 233–34).

It is perhaps not so surprising that nocturnal emissions and
lascivious thoughts should be blamed on the evil machinations
of a female since, despite the injunction not to sleep alone,
and the decree forbidding onanism, the Old Testament does
not view women in a favourable light.

(Kreung Tribe knows how to solve this Jewish problem) !!!

KPCS

Anonymous said...

Right! this tribe knews how to contract STD as well, loves stinks in the hut with no running water,lack of sanitation I can imagine how gross it will be....Sick tradition,this tribe must be abolished and burns a love hut burry in the deep sea forbiden anyone from practice it.

Anonymous said...

Remember this is not made for sex.this were meant to discover her decision and judgement to deal with stupid men. I am a man that encourage women empowerment. I think this will give women more power to chose and as society fully mature it will give them equality to no matter what. And forget about that Jewish s$%t that spread chaos.

Anonymous said...

How is about education and work ?

Anonymous said...

It sound like buying a used car,test drive first see if she likes how strong or weak of the pistons that put out compressor if pistons ring is still ties,did not worn out due to stress of being used...She said if loves that boy she will have sex with him.If another boy come along look more attractive,she quit having sex with her previous boyfriend and go having sex with a new dude.

It all about empower girl to choose who can make her feel good,before marry him,sound like buying a used car.I was wonder if contraception is applied to this test drive (sex test) maybe DNA will find out who baby father is later...if condom is not provided.Bad for society,good for girls,bad for a child that born out of this test drive (sex test).

Anonymous said...

Might as well compare to a gun to instead Of car. Imagine if these things have brain.

Anonymous said...

The article says they use condoms for contraception. In the western world only boys are encouraged to go for "test drive" while girls get shamed for it. Seems like a double standard to me.
I suppose if the whole society values female sexual pleasure then the boys will be motivated to make sure she prefers him over other boys. This could be one way to look at it. Seems like it could be a win-win for young men and young women.