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Did You Hear the One About the Sworn Virgins in Albania?
06.25.08 | Permalink | 16 CommentsOnce upon a time in northern Albania, there was a custom of women becoming men. They dressed like men, moved about in society as men, and were content to relinquish traditional female experiences like pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and childrearing, and simple, normal human experiences like sex and the companionship of marriage, with its soaring joys, [...]
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