'Sexuality' itself is a recent Western concept

sexuality is not a drive, but a "dense transfer point" for power relations
... Sexuality is the most instrumental domain for power


HISTORY OF SEXUALITY I
Outline by John Protevi
http://www.protevi.com/john/Foucault/HS1.pdf

Manhood rites in ancient tribes

The male aboriginal, on attaining the age of puberty, reaches the most eventful period of his life. Hitherto his place has been amongst the women and children, but he now passes through a ceremony admitting him to a brotherhood whose secrets are inviolable and whose power is more dreaded than any Vehmgericht. Now filled with a sense of the dignity of manhood, he becomes entitled to greater privileges than previously enjoyed.

The goonduckyer and message-stick must never be seen by a women or an uninitiated person, and I have been assured that instant death would overtake a female or boy unfortunate enough to see one of these implements.

If the invitation is, as usual, accepted, the whole tribe gets ready for the march, the women and boys however, being kept in ignorance of the object of the journey.

The youths when their preparations have been completed proceed to the boolbung in company with the women and children. The latter, however, do not enter the ring but take their places outside, close to the youths belonging to their respective tribes; the youths standing inside the ring at the points nearest their respective burris. The women and children who have been previously made to lie down with their faces to the ground are then covered with rugs and bushes, and the proponents for initiation with their heads enveloped in rugs are taken some distance along the goolga out of sight of the women, and then made to lie down with the rugs still covering them.

A new name is also given to him now which must never be used within the hearing of women; the raised scars (bheerammer), are made on his body. Prior to being initiated he was permitted to use as food all kinds of fish, honey, and the female of all land animals, but certain birds and the male of all land animals were forbidden him. After his first keeparra he is entitled to partake of the flesh of the male kangaroo-rat, and after the second he is permitted to eat the male opossum, and each succeeding keeparra increases his privileges in this respect.

"the youths to be initiated were kept apart from the other members of the tribe for a month previous to the inauguration ceremonies, and that if any female was detected holding conversation with them or touching them she would be put to death."

-- by W. J. Enright, B.A. Syd.
Journal of the Royal Society of New South Wales, Vol. XXXIII, p. 115-124 [Read before the Society July 5, 1899 - communicated by R. H. Mathews, L.S.]

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Manhood in modern west = sex with women (gays and others deny this)

"Oh, I almost forgot, another "man establishing" moment culturally…the loss of virginity (at an ever decreasing age I might add!)."

Matthew Bruner, Director of Men of Valor Ranch in Northport, WA
in his article: When does a boy become a man?

West invented the concept of 'Sexuality'

Western culture has long been fixated on sexuality. We call it a repression. Rather, the social convention, not to mention sexuality, has created a discourse around it, thereby making sexuality ubiquitous. This would not have been the case, had it been thought of as something quite natural. The concept "sexuality" itself is a result of this discourse. And the interdictions also have constructive power: they have created sexual identities and a multiplicity of sexualities that would not have existed otherwise.

Michael Foucalt

What happened to boys who lost manhood tests in tribes

"It is known for a fact that in some Native American tribes, males who failed the "test of manhood" were given "women's work" to do. There were no "gay communities" in large cities to which the "inferior" males could escape."

From the Book:
Women's Roots: The History of Women in Western Civilizationby June Stephenson, Ph.D.
Diemer Smith Publishing Co., 5th Edition, March 2000
Book review by William A. Spriggs, October 6, 2003