The article is bad, the first part based on impressions from pop-sources and Western memoirs, rather than scholarly sources. > In part due to the lack of prope

The article is bad, the first part based on impressions from pop-sources and Western memoirs, rather than scholarly sources. > In part due to the lack of proper understanding of the practice and partly due to the influence of westernized urban bias towards the primitive folk practices of rural communities, modern Bhutanese urbanites, particularly those who are engaged in development and gender issues and who carry out their conversations in English, have inaccurately used the misnomer ‘night hunting’ in English to refer to this traditional practice although neither the word ‘night’ nor the word ‘hunting’ exists in the original terms used to refer to it in places where it is practised. The misnomer leads to a serious misinterpretation of the practice and leads the audience to think that there is a degree of exploitation and abuse, objectification, and animality involved as the word ‘hunting’ would imply. https://texts.mandala.library.virginia.edu/text/bomena-night-dating https://texts.mandala.library.virginia.edu/text/bomena-night... by Karma Phuntsho, Bhutanese scholar. I recall similar practices in other societies, such as Cambodian 'love huts' that fathers build for their daughters, where suitors might come to her at night. The grandparent commenter might be annoyed by the later section? But it is not a "nationalist defence", it's just putting the practice in context.