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Sexual Meanings : The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality Colors Network Bernard Marx seems alone harbouringThis 1996 collection of essays deals with the ways in which sex and gender are socially organized and conceptually construed in various cultures. Its scope is not limited to a series of cross cultural issues of sex roles and sexual status but rather encompasses a wide range of sex related practices and beliefs. Ceremonial virginity in Polynesian ritual androgynism in New Guinea, the valorization of young African bachelors, and fantasies of male self