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And speaking of queer cultures in Indonesia, this feels so funny. It implies that they only have issue with male-on-male as opposed to the age gap of adult and minor. So to fix this, they replaced the gemblakan with women (as if adult men being intimate with young girls are somehow "better")

However, a warok does not remain completely celibate as having sex with boys between the ages of eight and fifteen is permitted as a substitute. The boy lover in this ritualized relationship is called the gemblak. The gemblak is usually kept by the warok in his household with the full agreement of the boy's family, which included compensation. Later on in his life a warok could be married with a woman as his wife, but was also allowed to keep a gemblak as a lover on the side. The warok-gemblakan relationships were thus similar to the pederastic rituals and traditions common to ancient Greece. These traditional ritualized relationships remained especially prevalent in Ponorogo, where there are older warok who may still have gemblak lovers.[25] However, these older men have never identified as homosexuals, and neither have their young lovers.
Today the warok-gemblakan practice is discouraged by local religious authorities, especially through public moral opposition. As a result, modern-day Reog Ponorogo performances rarely feature gemblakan boys as performers taking on the role of Jatil horsemen. These traditional performance roles are now mostly played by girls.
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