Postpartum Sex Taboo, Length

Associated Documents (2)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Kitahara, MichioSignificance of the father for the son's masculine identity
Ember, Carol R.Explaining male initiation ceremonies: new cross-cultural tests and a catalytic model

Associated Hypotheses (2)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Ember, Carol R.Exclusive mother-child sleeping and a long postpartum sex taboo are positively associated with male initiation ceremonies in the presence of all of the following catalysts: nonmatrilocal societies, more-than-rare warfare, nonstate societies.
Kitahara, Michio"The segregation of males at puberty is more closely correlated to the polygynous societies in which each co-wife lives with her children in a separate quarter than to a long postpartum sexual taboo" (7).

Associated OCMs

  1. general sex restrictions
  2. postnatal care