Kitahara M
Arch Sex Behav. 1976 May;5(3):201-9. doi: 10.1007/BF01541371.
In polygynous societies in which the family consists of husband, wives, and children only, if each cowife lives in a separate quarter with her children, males are more likely to be circumcised or segregated at puberty. These customs are interpreted as the measures to rectify boys' mother-oriented personality development because of limited contact with their fathers due to their mother's separate quarters. Circumcision and segregation can be explained better in terms of the son's insufficient contact with the father rather than a very close relationship with the mother due to the long postpartum sexual taboo.
在一夫多妻制社会中，家庭仅由丈夫、妻子和孩子组成，如果每个妻子都与自己的孩子住在单独的区域，那么男性在青春期更有可能接受割礼或被隔离。这些习俗被解释为纠正男孩以母亲为导向的人格发展的措施，因为由于母亲单独居住，他们与父亲的接触有限。割礼和隔离从儿子与父亲接触不足的角度来解释会更好，而不是因为产后长期的性禁忌导致与母亲关系过于亲密。
