Note (return) — THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EXOGAMY

Again, the eagerness of men to obtain girl wives, and even a claim on infants, thus assuring virginity and marriage at the moment of sexual maturity;213 the habit of keeping girls in solitary confinement from a tender age until the consummation of marriage;214 and the African custom of infibulation,215 are classes of facts indicating that the sexual element occupied a large place in the consciousness of the natural races.