Inis Beag: Most sexually repressed place in the world?

MadsL

http://www.nerve.com/love-sex/weirdest-sex-rituals-throught-the-world

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cultural_differences_in_sexuality


research done in 1966 indicated that the people of Inis Beag have sex with their underwear on and only wash exposed skin beyond their clothes.

Did the islanders take the piss out of the researchers or is there any truth that;

The islands abhor nudity, with adults washing only the parts of the body that extend beyond their clothing.

Even marital partners keep underclothes on during sexual activity. Premarital sex is essentially unknown, as is female orgasm. The husband invariably initiates sex, foreplay is limited to kissing and rough fondling of the buttocks, and the male-on-top position is the only position used.

The male has orgasm quickly and immediately falls asleep. Men believe that intercourse is hard on their health and will not engage in sex the night before an energy-demanding task. Moreover, they do not approach their wives sexually during menstruation or for months after childbirth.

The island women fear both menstruation and menopause. It is commonly believed that the latter can produce mental disorder. Thus, some women have retired from life in their mid-forties and a few have even confined themselves to bed until death years later.

Sex education is virtually nonexistent. Parents merely trust that, after marriage, nature will take its course.

The Backwards Man

The fact that no such island exists would lead me to believe it's a wind up

Muise...

Inis where now?

My name is URL

Sounds like bullshit to me.. similar to the myth about how Orthodox Jews have sex through a sheet with a hole cut into it.

alchemist33

And as soon as the Yank researcher went back to Galway on the boat, all the islanders went down to McGinty's for the nightly bukkake parties.

Maphisto

The Backwards Man wrote: »

The fact that no such island exists would lead me to believe it's a wind up

There's an Inishbeg in Donegal

Things like this make me think I spend too much time on the internet

kneemos

Turned the mother and child to the wall and light a penny candle was the usual routine I believe.

dee_mc

According to Wikipedia (so it must be true ), it does exist, near the Aran Islands?!
News to me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inis_Beag

The Backwards Man

Maphisto wrote: »

There's an Inishbeg in Donegal

Where?

--LOS--

................

Inis Beag is a fictitious name for one of the many inhabited, rocky, barren islands of the Irish Gaeltacht.

Guy:Incognito

My name is URL wrote: »

Sounds like bullshit to me.. similar to the myth about how Orthodox Jews have sex through a sheet with a hole cut into it.

Sexeh

My name is URL

dee_mc wrote: »

According to Wikipedia (so it must be true ), it does exist, near the Aran Islands?!
News to me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inis_Beag

According to that it's two places at once!

Its true identity is almost certainly Inisheer.

the actual name of the island is Inishnee.

Sounds legit

Maphisto

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Where?

Pretty much due North from Inishdooey - on https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Inishbeg/@55.2038355,-8.1620135,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x485f874591d20491:0xfa928b6afa41fde8

Muise...

So these islanders, with their awful repressions and fears about sex, had no problems whatsoever talking in detail to a foreign academic about it?

--LOS--

It's supposed to be near the Aran Islands, it's a made-up name, it's just folklore nonsense

nobody told me

Sounds an awful lot like Longford to me

The Backwards Man

Maphisto wrote: »

Pretty much due North from Inishdooey - on https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Inishbeg/@55.2038355,-8.1620135,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x485f874591d20491:0xfa928b6afa41fde8

Inhabited?

Maphisto

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Inhabited?

Possibly

Czarcasm

MadsL wrote: »

http://www.nerve.com/love-sex/weirdest-sex-rituals-throught-the-world

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cultural_differences_in_sexuality


research done in 1966 indicated that the people of Inis Beag have sex with their underwear on and only wash exposed skin beyond their clothes.

Did the islanders take the piss out of the researchers or is there any truth that;

Research done in 1966, and it's now 50 years later? The story itself is certainly plausible, but the details are a bit sketchy. As I read it though, all I could think was there are an awful lot of Americans who still believe Ireland is like this -

So I wouldn't put too much faith in their research methods.

dee_mc

My name is URL wrote: »

According to that it's two places at once!





Sounds legit

Going by population around the time of the study, it's much more likely to be Inisheer

Menas

So we have a bull**** study conducted on an imaginary island. And done 50 years ago.

Academic research has thankfully come on leaps and bounds.....

Duckworth_Luas

I had a book of folk tales that were collected by academics about 100 years ago. It was obvious to me that in some cases the people were taking the absolute pi$$ and filling the "intellectuals" with complete horse$hit.

Galwayguy35

Hard to know if there was an element of truth to it or not.

50 years ago many people probably didn't wash too ofton, and who wants to shag someone that stinks so that might explain the lack of interest in sex.

For Forks Sake

Sexually repressed people?
Backwards ideas?
Mental illness?
Unwashed natives?

Yup, definitely Longford.

Donkey Oaty

More info here, from a University of California student site.

And was seemingly featured in academic journal American Anthropologist.

Pwindedd

alchemist33 wrote: »

And as soon as the Yank researcher went back to Galway on the boat, all the islanders went down to McGinty's for the nightly bukkake parties.

Slightly ashamed that I know what that is, yet not so ashamed that a self congratulory post was out of the question.

Donkey Oaty

Review of the book by an academic from the University of Illinois is here.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/aa.1971.73.2.02a00400/pdf

Key point: Inis Beag is a "thinly disguised" pseudonym for one of the more famous Aran Islands - and the book was actually much wider in scope than their jig-jig habits.

Sir Arthur Daley

Is the reason for their sexually repressed state because because they are full of booming imagination?

deirdremf

I saw the book once, and there was a map of the island in the book.
The map was actually Inis Oirr, the smallest of the Aran islands - when you saw the map, the identity of the place was immediately obvious. Of course it was written for an american audience, not for us, but all the same, it was pretty stupid putting in a map and at the same time pretending you were hiding the identity of the place.

I also read somewhere that the researchers' questions about sexual habits were pretty much resented by a lot of the people, and they probably didn't answer honestly. So you can take the answers with a pinch of salt!!!