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Suffice it to say that one of the Maori legendary heroes named Máui sought to make his people immortal by creeping into the body of Hine-nui-te-pó (The Maori goddess of the night) from "between her thighs" and to come out of her mouth again (a task for which he took the form of a worm).

He nearly succeeded in this task, but as he was halfway in whatever opening he had crept into, one of his bird companions (whom Máui had warned not to laugh at the sight) couldn't help it and had a giggle anyway, causing Hine-nui-te-pó to wake up and rapidly close her legs, cutting Máui in two and making all humans mortal.

It is said that Hine-nui-te-pó has remained in this position since back then, and that all humans having to enter the underworld now have to go the same way as Maui did.

On a less anecdotal note: At least in the case of the Maori, sexual promiscuity would rather surprise me, as they place extremely heavy emphasis on their whakapapa - their lineage. This is especially important because they see their children as physical representations of their elders, so if you talk to someone's child, you also talk to his or her parents, grandparents, and effectively the oldest known ancestors.

Curiously this also holds in the other direction. Insult someone, and (so the Maori say) there's a good chance all of his or heir descendants will hold a grudge against you.

A last thing to consider: The written sources about most "tribals" that tend to shape western narratives from European explorers, so I suggest taking them with a grain of salt. I don't even want to argue that every single of these explorers was a merry mass-rapist who only made up the alleged promiscuity to justify his deeds, but just consider the cultural perspectives - to the Europeans, the simple fact that many women in tropical areas ran around bare-chested or virtually nude must have been fairly lewd.

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Trobriand in Melanesia. They eat some plant that is a natural contraceptive, so they completely lost the notion of sex —> babies.

http://eye4ethnic.blogspot.si/2014/08/trobriand-islanders-living-in-forgotten.html

At the beginning of the yam harvest, the yams stay on display in gardens for about a month before the gardener takes them to the owner. The owner is always a woman. There is a great ceremony for this every year. The yams are loaded into the woman's husband's empty yam house. Young people come to the gardens dressed in their most festive traditional clothes early on the day the yams are delivered to the yam house.

The young people are all related to the gardener, and carry the yam baskets to the owner's hamlet. When they get to the owner's hamlet, they sing out to announce the arrival of the yams while thrusting out their hips in a sexually provocative motion. This emphasizes the relation between yams and sexuality. A few days later, the gardener comes and loads the yam house, and the man is now responsible for the yam.

The yam house owner provides the gardener and young people with cooked yams, taro, and pork. Once the yam houses are full, a man performs a special magic spell for the hamlet that wards off hunger by making people feel full. The women also use bundles of scored banana leaves as a type of currency between themselves. As many days of work are required to make bundles each one has an assigned value and can be used to buy canned foods as well as given away in exchange for other goods.

Apparently, the annual yam festival is not just about well, yams. Sure, the yam is 'king' during this time as competition reigns between villages for the title of 'tokwaibagula' ('good gardener') but it is also a time that sex rules. Women are permitted by their paramount chief to capture men and have their way with them, as in assault them sexually. A native islander will say that she can 'rep' (rape) the men!

The women lie in wait in the bushes and ambush a man who might be walking to work or awaiting transportation. The only rule is that the man cannot be a member of the woman's tribe/village; it's always a man from another tribe/village.

Some males who had been assaulted twice, said that they got over the initial shock and actually enjoyed it (what a surprise!). The only adverse part of this ritual is that if a male couldn't 'perform', the women could urinate on him…and bite off his eyebrows…and eyelashes. This act would surely provoke ridicule from fellow villagers.

The festival time is considered a very dangerous period for a man to be out alone so men would usually go out in groups – just in case. Hey, the defense for 'doing it' in the bushes — making love was supposed to bring fertility to the crops.