ABSTRACT
Boundaries are never established gratuitously. Society does not form divi sions purely for the pleasure of breaking the social universe into compartments. The institutionalized boundaries dividing the parts of society express the rec ognition of power in one part at the expense of the other.2 Any transgression of the boundaries is a danger to the social order because it is an attack on the acknowledged allocation of power. The link between boundaries and power is particularly salient in a society’s sexual patterns.
