Even the universal Christianization of the islanders did not change their relationship to sex. An interesting story is related to the visit of the first bishop of a Maori village in New Zealand. Its inhabitants, already converted to Catholicism, gave the honored guest a solemn reception. Magnificent feast, the Catholic Service according to all canons ...
But night fell, and the bishop and his companions were about to go to bed when the village leader ordered that a beautiful girl be brought to him for the night. The shocked bishop himself could not utter a word, and one of the clergy who accompanied him indignantly said to the leader: "How can you! Girl - to the bishop!" The leader felt that he had missed, but he understood it in his own way - turning to the servants, he ordered: "Give the bishop two girls!"
The first Europeans brought two “gifts” to the inhabitants of Oceania: syphilis, which rapidly spread through the archipelago, and the beginnings of prostitution, which did not exist in traditional society. They coped with syphilis, but prostitution is flourishing. She is not in traditional communities, but more and more girls are going to the cities. They become, for example, "ship" prostitutes, moving from ship to ship, collecting their "harvest".
Others, working in advertising agencies, serve businessmen and tourists ... But Polynesians look at prostitution in a completely different way than anywhere else in the world: what could be simpler and more pleasant than giving your love? After all, they were born on the Islands of Free Love ...