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The purpose of the o'-lag is as far from enforcing chastity as it well can be. The old women never frequent the o'-lag, and the lesson the girls learn there is the necessity for maternity, not the "industries of their sex" which children of very primitive people acquire quite as a young fowl learns to scratch and get its food. Marriage The ethics of the group forbid certain unions in marriage.
Separate sleeping houses for girls similar to the o'-lag, I judge, are also found occasionally in Assam. Whereas, so far as known, the o'-lag occurs with the Igorot only among the Bontoc culture group, yet the above quotations and references point to a similar institution among distant people among some of the same people who have an institution very similar to the pabafunan and fawi. Afong
This is when a rich and influential man marries a girl against her desires, but through the urgings of her parents. It is customary for a young man to be sexually intimate with one, two, three, and even more girls at the same time. Two or more of them may be residents of one o'-lag, and it is common for two or three men to visit the same o'-lag at one time.
A girl is almost invariably faithful to her temporary lover, and this fact is the more surprising in the face of the young man's freedom and the fact that the o'-lag is nightly filled with little girls whose moral training is had there. Young men are boldly and pointedly invited to the o'-lag.
I have seen both a young man carrying a young woman lying horizontally along his shoulders, and a young woman carrying a young man astride her back. However, practically all courtship is carried on in the o'-lag. The courtship of the Igorot is closely defined when it is said that marriage never takes place prior to sexual intimacy, and rarely prior to pregnancy. There is one exception.
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