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How closely connected are urban to rural Maasai? Let's say someone is Maasai, living in the city, doing city things: does he often keep in touch with the family and village and cows? How about later generations? (Are there 3rd, 4th generation urban Maasai?)

Is being Maasai and following the traditions (like circumcision rituals) something that kids are proud of, ashamed of, or indifferent?

I've always understood that pedophilia is an orientation, while child molesting is a choice. Many/most child molesters aren't pedophiles, they just can't get an adult to hold still long enough. Likewise, some pedophiles don't molest children. They're still human, and many humans have morals.

Thank goodness. Sometimes developing-world men think porn is a documentary, which makes problems for visiting Western women.

How popular is female circumcision (emorata) in your village? I've heard of it being replaced by "cutting with words" -- is that really a done thing that people consider equivalent?

From research on the science of attraction, for instance, we tend to be attracted to those who most closely remind us of our childhood image and experience of our mother or father.

I'd have to see some adoption studies before I believe that the effect is due to anything other than children resembling their same-sex parent in many ways, including having a similar "type."