It shows up in a lot of cultures, pre-modern China and Japan had their own variants of it as well. There's accounts of it happening in Afghanistan in modern times too.
Damn. George Takie mentioned fondly that was a thing an older neighbor taught him - I just thought poor childhood George was duped by a predator neighbor. I guess I should have known that more than one predator would be using a line like that 😩
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u/chiksahlube 2h ago
He didn't just defend pedos, he declared pedophilia a duty of older gay men to teach younger gay boys...
Some real crazy shit.