Inselparadies Pitcairn
Verfasst: So Jan 23, 2005 4:17 pm
Durch einen geschätzten kollegen namens Cannibal auf dieses kleine Paradies aufmerksam gemacht, musste ich mich doch heute per "online-recherche" über das eiland pitcairn informieren, bekannt vor allem durch die besiedlung der H.M.S. Bounty-Meuterer und den jüngst aufgekommenen Gerüchten wegen sexuellen Übergriffen innerhalb der Bevölkerung.
Dazu ein Auszug aus einer Zeitung:
Dazu ein Auszug aus einer Zeitung:
krank, oder?signonsandiego.com hat geschrieben: The population may be tiny but the gene pool is kept healthy by marriages to Pitcairn emigres living in New Zealand or Norfolk Island off the Australian coast, as well as outsiders. A child was born on the island this year.
Meanwhile, the seven accused are free on bail and living among their fellow islanders, still manning the longboats.
Dea Birkett, a British journalist whose 1997 book "Serpent in Paradise" described her several months' living on the island, has written: "Starved of real choices, Pitcairners develop relationships considered unacceptable elsewhere. Sisters share a husband. Teenage girls have affairs with older men. Women have children by more than one partner, often starting as young as 15. "But faced with such limited choices ourselves," she wrote, "would we act so very differently?"