Re: immigrants eating pets

On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 19:08:55 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

In some cultures, pleasure women were highly regarded.

I'm not aware of this in religious circles.
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English sailors on the HMS Dolphin in 1766 discovered that native
women on islands would trade sex for iron, and began pulling nails
out, causing loss of the ship's structural integrity.

 Although traditional Tahitian culture did not sanction extramarital
sexual relations, within 48 hours of Wallis's arrival, Tahitian
husbands and fathers were encouraging their wives and daughters to
swim out to the Dolphin and offer the sailors sex in exchange for iron
nails.

Aware of the brisk trade in iron, later explorers such as Captain
James Cook brought supplies of nails and hoop iron with them to
barter.

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