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What the Aka and Ngandu have in common, besides geography, is this: In both cultures, men and women view sexual intercourse as a kind of "work of the night." The purpose of this work is the production of children - a critical matter in an area with a very high infant mortality rate. The Ngandu, by contrast, are slash-and-burn farmers with stable locations and significant gender inequality, with men typically dominating over women. The Aka are foragers and, according to the Hewletts, "gender egalitarianism among the Aka is about as pronounced as human societies get." Women may hunt, even on their own, and often control distribution of resources. While the Aka and the Ngandu live in the same general region, an area in central Africa marked by tropic forest, their cultures are distinct. A woman who is already pregnant will see having intercourse as contributing to the health of her fetus. But in the process of verifying this, the Hewletts also incidentally found that homosexuality and masturbation appeared to be foreign to both groups. Married Aka and Ngandu men and women consistently reported having sex multiple times in a single night. In turning to a dedicated study of sex practices, the Hewletts formally confirmed that the campfire stories were no mere fish tales.
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At first thought it was just men telling their stories, but we talked to women and they verified the men's assertions." As they reported in the journal African Study Monographs, the married couple of anthropologists from Washington State University "decided to systematically study sexual behavior after several campfire discussions with married middle-aged Aka men who mentioned in passing that they had sex three or four times during the night. Aka father carrying his daughter while out on a hunt īarry and Bonnie Hewlett had been studying the Aka and Ngandu people of central Africa for many years before they began to specifically study the groups' sexuality.