Kerscher summarizes Malinowski's conclusions reached in The Sexual Life of the Savages (1929): "For the children of the Trobrianders there is no sexual repression and no sexual mystery. Their sexual life develops naturally, freely and without restraint through all periods of life, with complete satisfaction. The children are active in ways appropriate to their age. In spite of this, or perhaps because of it, Trobriander society in this third decade of our century knows no sexual perversions, no functional mental illnes, no psychoneurosis, no sex murders. (...) Sadism, destructiveness and theft are equally absent in Trobriander culture. (...) The example of the Trobriander is just one of the best known, but there are ranks of other cultures in which deviant behavior like criminality is all but absent. And these are always cultures with a positive attitude towards sex." (Kerscher 1979, p.116)