But few details of s**ual inversion and perversion are known among the savages, and it is commonly and tacitly a**umed that abnormalities of the s**ual instinct are the concommitants of Oriental luxury or advanced civilization.The nest three pa**ages continue to provide evidence from groups around the world, as though the encyclopedic collection of information on s**ual practices could finally yield the "truth" about s**. .. Among American Indians, fro Alaska to Brazil, h*mo-s**ual practices occurred and occur. Sodomy was prevalent among the Nahua and Maya nation the latter tolerating if not sytematizing the practice. .. Among the Aluets of Alaska certian boys.. are brough up as girls and decorated as women. Similar examples may be multiplied, but, apart from the last mentioned, which, according to Havelock Ellis, suggests the possibility of congenital inversion, they are all examples of the grossest form of perversion, and no details suggesting that any of these are congenital inversions are given. Similarly, there is no reason to believe that the pederasty practiced by certain New Caledonian warriors, which is stated to constutute relationship more sacred than blood-broherhood, is resorted to for convenience and perhaps for malthusian reasons, as it is among some Papuans of the western district of the British New Guinea.