Abstract
Summary With cross-cultural ethnographic data on 39 societies, this paper researches the influence of the four variables of the Whiting Complex (postpartum sex taboo, polygyny, severe male intiation rites, and infant sleeping arrangements) on whether a society views foreplay as an expected component of adult sexual behavior. Only the infant sleeping arrangement variable was found to be correlated with the presence of foreplay. It is suggested that a learning perspective, rather than Whiting's neo-Freudian approach, best explains the results of the investigation.
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