This article examines the transformation of sexual meanings, attitudes, norms, and practices surrounding depletion and pollution across decades (1974–2010) among the Sambia of Papua New Guinea. In the premodern village, all sexual intercourse, whether with boy‐initiates or women, was ritualized and ultimately controlled by the men's secret society. Intimate consumption refers traditionally to a symbolic complex of beliefs, concepts, emotions, and ritual experiences involving sexuality, bodily health, social relationships, and gendered politics. But it also covers sexual anxieties corresponding to the transfer and loss of bodily fluids via the perceived depletion and pollution of self and body. For adult men, the sense of intimate consumption requires repeated substance replenishment and purification. Intimate consumption made oral and vaginal sex highly rule‐bound, taboo laden, and intensely regulated in terms of the meaning, scope, duration, and intended goals of sexual exchange. Pacification, colonization, out‐migration, Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Christianity, and primary schooling in the Sambia Valley over a period of decades instigated social transformations that challenged and wore down this system of sexual regulation. Thus, the transition from ritual to non‐ritual practices, i.e., more individualistic sexual relationships, highlight narratives of change in the Sambia sexuality. With the demise of ritual initiation in the 1980s and 1990s, and the appearance of HIV and SikAids in the Sambia Valley, explicit ritual sexual techniques were no longer socialized. Modernity (in the sense of a set of policies, attitudes, and rules introduced through institutions such as the government community school) and SDA church sociality influenced both the pace and form of this sexual transformation. Among the greatest changes was the expansion of female agency and sexual autonomy, and personal decision‐making vis‐à‐vis especially marriage and also romance, courtship, and sex. Notably, oral sex, once universal and mandatory, largely disappeared from Sambia intimate relations. Today, spousal intimacy reveals a different set of more ‘modern’ meanings and behaviors compared to two generations ago, e.g., more mutualistic and companionate. Intimate consumption remains a worry for certain Sambia young men and women today however, influenced in part by the rise of the HIV pandemic, mobility, and the absence of normative narratives of sexuality in villages and town settlements. This creates public spaces wherein new sexual subjects have emerged in the villages and urban settlements within the Sambia Valley and in settlements throughout PNG.

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巴布亚新几内亚的撒姆比亚人的私密性消费与新性主题

本文研究了巴布亚新几内亚的萨姆比亚地区几十年来（1974-2010年）围绕着耗竭和污染的性意义，态度，规范和习俗的转变。在这个前现代的村庄，所有的性交，无论是男生还是女性，都被仪式化并最终由男人的秘密社会控制。私密消费传统上是指涉及性，身体健康，社会关系和性别政治的信念，概念，情感和仪式经历的象征性复合体。但是，它也涵盖了由于对自我和身体的感知和消耗而导致的与体液的转移和流失相对应的性焦虑。对于成年男性，亲密食用的感觉需要反复补充和净化物质。私密性饮食使口交和阴道性交变得高度规则，禁忌，并且在性交的意义，范围，持续时间和预期目标方面受到严格监管。和平，殖民，外迁，基督复临安息日会（SDA）基督教，几十年来，萨姆比亚山谷的小学和小学教育引发了社会变革，挑战和破坏了这种性调节体系。因此，从仪式到非仪式的转变，即更加个人主义的性关系，凸显了萨姆比亚性行为变化的叙述。随着1980年代和1990年代仪式仪式的消亡，以及艾滋病毒和SikAids在萨姆比亚山谷的出现，明确的仪式性技巧不再社会化。现代性（从通过政府社区学校等机构引入的一系列政策，态度和规则的意义上）和SDA教堂的社会性影响了这种性转变的速度和形式。最大的变化之一是女性代理机构和性自主权的扩大，以及针对婚姻，浪漫，求爱和性行为的个人决策。值得注意的是，口交曾经是普遍性的和强制性的，在很大程度上与桑比亚的亲密关系消失了。如今，与两代人相比，夫妻之间的亲密关系揭示了一套不同的“现代”含义和行为，例如，更加互助和友善。然而，当今的某些萨姆比亚青年男女仍然担心私密性消费，部分原因是艾滋病毒大流行，流动性的增加以及乡村和城镇住区缺乏有关性的规范性叙述。这就创造了公共空间，新的性主题已经出现在萨姆比亚河谷内的村庄和城市居民区以及整个巴布亚新几内亚的居民区。