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Lol I looked for babalayan in the internet and this is what I got. Sh!t they don't look like they are dressed like women, and just because women were thought of highly doesn't make them g@y.
http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=+BABAYLA...lan__Baguio.JPGYour living proof that P-Islanders are prone to be butt pirates.

The unique figure of the babaylan (also called shaman, baylan, daetahan, tambalan, and manggagaway), prevalent in pre-Christian Philippine society and throughout Southeast Asia, embodies the balanced coexistence of female and male energies. While the babaylan is feminine, she functions differently than most women do in a patriarchal society. On the physical level, men who become babaylan take on the feminine appearance by dressing in feminine clothing. Sometimes the babaylan is a hermaphrodite, literally possessing both female and male sexual properties, or an impotent man. The shaman of Southeast Asia is often bisexual or impotent because he/she embodies both the feminine (earth) and the masculine (sky) elements.
http://www.bwf.org/pusod/CallofNature/2001/babaylan.htmlBABAYLAN in the Philippines
http://babaylan.pridemanila.cjb.net/No wonder your so much into all this bablayan sh!t.
You forgot this quote
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Within some groups in the Philippines, such as the Warays, babaylans are exclusively women
Here is P-Islander gayness for you.
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The Sambia believe that semen has powerful properties and that to embark on the path to manhood young boys must drink the semen of young men in their village.
These homosexual interactions are brief and do not involve relationships of any permanence. Sambian boys are taught the growth-promoting qualities of semen through a ritual teaching process:
"Now we teach you our customary story . . . . And soon you must ingest semen in the culthouse. Now there are many men here; you must sleep with them. Soon they will return to their homes. Now they are here, and you ought to drink their semen. In your own hamlets, there are only a few men. When you sleep with men, you should not be afraid of sucking their penises. You will soon enjoy them . . . . If you try it [semen], it is just like the milk of your mother’s breast. You can swallow it all the time and grow quickly. If you do not start to drink it now, you will not ingest much of it. Only occasionally . . . .
"And later when you are grown you will stop. If you drink a little semen now, you will not like the penis much. So you must start now and swallow semen. When you are bigger your own penis will become bigger, and you will not want to sleep with older men. You will then want to inseminate younger boys yourself. So you should sleep with men now."
Both semen conservation and semen investment theories attribute powerful qualities to semen. This Sambian custom is thought to be independent of heterosexual interests, which begin in later adolescence and develop slowly and tentatively.
Indeed, young Sambian men are truly bisexual. Very rarely do adult Sambian males adopt a homosexual orientation; the pressures to establish and provide for a family are keenly felt (Herdt, 1987).
Further references to Sambian sexuality:
http://www.gettingit.com/article/56http://icarus.ubetc.buffalo.edu/users/apy1...res/sambia.htmlhttp://207.36.40.210/newguinea-news.html