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It would be a drab world of bourgeois conformity if there were not some colorful absolute monarch somewhere flaunting an extravagant lifestyle and exercising droit du seigneur over his female subjects.(The Week ...)(Reed Dance)(Brief Article)
It would be a drab world of bourgeois conformity if there were not some colorful absolute monarch somewhere flaunting an extravagant lifestyle and exercising droit du seigneur over his female subjects. In the case of King Mswati III of Swaziland, resistance to his exercising of that particular right seems to be ... less than implacable. At this year's ritual Reed Dance, 50,000 topless teenage virgins pranced and twirled before His Majesty (and his mother, whose formal title is Great She-Elephant), indicating by song and gesture their willingness to become King Mswati's 13th queen. Preparations for this year's ceremony included the lifting of a ban the king imposed in 2001, prohibiting sexual ...
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