Dr. Ruth, America's Favorite Sex Therapist, Explores Papua New Guinea's
Islands of Love on the Next Mungo Park Adventure
REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- It is a sensual tropical paradise where the women rule and the men trade kula rings. The Trobriand Islands, or Islands of Love, off the coast of Papua New Guinea are home to a matrilineal society, which passes land and inheritance through the female side of the family. Spiritual traditions and fertility rites focus on cultivation of the phallic yam, and Trobriand Islanders are said to condone sex between unmarried teen-agers, extramarital sex with multiple partners, and even the conquest of men by married women. (I'M MOVING!<G>)
Mungo Park(TM) online adventure magazine, published by the Microsoft(R) Expedia(TM) travel service (http://mungopark.com), will conduct the first-ever online expedition to the Islands of Love with guest correspondent Dr. Ruth Westheimer Oct. 10_21.
The Trobriand Islands, a seldom-visited archipelago of 160 islands, are one of the planet's last frontiers and remain relatively untouched by Western influence. Culturally distinct from the rest of Papua New Guinea due to their matrilineal society, the inhabitants possess a form of modesty that Westerners find curious. For example, it is taboo for an unmarried man and woman to share a meal together, although premarital sex is accepted behavior. |
