Posted by: usofa June 16, 2005
Multiple husband system in Nepal
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Wife as a present: In some Himalayan communities who are under the influence of the Tibetan culture there is a tradition of sending the wife or the daughter to sleep at night with the guest. It is more prominent among the Sherpas especially when a formal friend - Mita (a formal ritualistic system of making friendly ties between two persons of similar sex male or female) comes to see his co-partner the Mita, then the host must send his wife to the guest's bed for the night, and vice-versa during such exchanges of visits. Among the Buddhists of the Himalayan ranges it is so practised as a faith in the Buddhist gospel of charity of all kinds to please the needy. But to this day, it has been made profane as a sheer sexual interest. he swaps wife ? who?
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