To become a man in this primitive tribe, boys are removed from the
presence of all females at the age of seven, living with other males for
ten years. During the ten years, the skin is pierced to remove any
contamination brought upon by women. For the same reason, they also
regularly incur nose-bleeding and vomiting caused by consuming large
amounts of sugarcane.
,
which is thought to sustain growth and strength. When they are finally
introduced back into the tribe, they continue to engage in nose-bleeding
at the same time as their wives'
.
The Mardudjara: Intimate cutting rituals to achieve manhood - Australia
The first portion of this Mardudjara Aboriginal rite involves a barbaric
circumcision followed by the circumcised male ingesting his own
foreskin. After he heals up, the penis is then cut lengthwise on the
underside, sometimes all the way to the scrotum. Blood is then dripped
over a fire in order to purify it. From then on, the male will urinate
from the underside of his penis instead of the urethra. The real
question, however, is how does destroying a boy's 'manhood' bring him
into manhood?
The Trobrianders : The tribe where kids start having sex at 6 – Papua, New Guinea
These islanders from a remote tribe in Papua guinea seem like a case
study in the ultimate consequences of the sexual revolution: girls want
sex just as much as guys, and kids start having sex at a very young age —
6-8 for the girls and 10-12 for the guys — with no social stigma. There
are few customs about
dating to inhibit “hooking up” and, of course, revealing clothing has been taken to its limit, with girls actually going topless.
However,
while everybody is having sex whenever they want, premarital
meal-sharing is a big no-no. You're not supposed to go out for dinner
together until after you get married.
Saut d'Eau: The city where you may witness rituals of voodoo and love - Haiti
If you
travel to Haiti and visit
the waterfalls of Saut d'Eau during the month of July, you may witness
quite a risqué ritual. Voodoo practitioners make this journey each
summer to worship the
goddess of love.
Pretty normal stuff, right?
Wrong.
Picture a bunch of buck-naked people twisting and wriggling around in
mud mixed with the blood of sacrificed animals, with cow and goat heads
thrown into the mix. I'm sure there's nothing like it if you're an
exhibitionism lover.
The Nepalese: A community where brothers share a wife - The Himalayas
According to an
article in
Psychology Today, “Almost all of the few polyandrous societies practice
what anthropologists call fraternal polyandry, where a group of brothers
share a wife." This is the case in the Himalayas, where there is little
land available for farming and agriculture, and families with more than
one son would be faced with dividing up their land were each son to
start his own family.
The solution? Find one wife for all of
their sons so that they can live together as one family and keep their
family plot intact. Also, as told in the National Geographic documentary
Multiple Husbands, this arrangement works best when the wife is adept at "scheduling" time with each brother.
Th Wodaabee: The tribe were men steal each other's wives - Niger
In the Wodaabe tribe of Niger in West Africa, men are known to steal
each other's wives. The Wodaabe's first marriage is arranged by their
parents in infancy and must be between cousins of the same lineage.
However, at the yearly Gerewol Festival, Wodaabe
men wear elaborate makeup and costumes and dance to impress the women – and hopefully steal a new wife.
If
the new couple is able to steal away undetected (especially from a
current husband who may not want to part with his wife), then they
become socially recognized. These subsequent marriages are called love
marriages.
Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs: The pharaohes who would practice public masturbation
According to Sex and Society, "even the ebb and flow of the Nile was
thought to be caused by Atum's (the god of creation) ejaculation. This
concept spurred the Egyptian pharaohs to ritually masturbate into the
Nile to ensure an abundance of water."
The ancient Egyptians were
so inspired by the act of self-stimulation that at the festival of the
god Min, who represented Pharaoh's sexual potency, men masturbated in
public.
Ancient Greece: Where homosexuality was completely out of the closet
The ancient Greeks did not conceive of sexual orientation as a social
identifier the way Western societies have done for the past century.
Greek society did not distinguish sexual desire or behavior by the
gender of the participants, but rather by the role that each participant
played in the sex act, that of the active penetrator or the passive
penetrated.
This active/passive polarization corresponded with
dominant and submissive social roles: the active (penetrative) role was
associated with masculinity, higher social status, and adulthood, while
the passive role was associated with femininity, lower social status,
and youth.
Ancient Greece: When pederasty was the social convention
The most common form of same-sex relationships between males in
Greece
was "paiderastia" meaning "boy love." It was a relationship between an
older male and an adolescent youth. A boy was considered a "boy" until
he was able to grow a full beard. In Athens, the older man was called
erastes, and he was to educate, protect, love, and provide a role model
for his eromenos, whose reward for him lay in his beauty, youth, and
promise.
To love a boy below the age of twelve was considered
inappropriate, but no evidence exists of any legal penalties attached to
this sort of practice.
Modern Iranian culture: Where you can have a temporary Marriage if you pay for it
We all know that Muslim practices are among some of the strictest
regarding sexual intercourse and the relationships between men and
women. For instance, Muslim couples are only allowed to have sex in the
missionary position. It's considered gross and degrading for a man to ask any other position from his wife.
However,
in certain Muslim countries, like Iran, a young couple who would like
to have sex before they're ready to marry can request a “temporary
marriage.” They are allowed to pay for a short ceremony, with a written
contract dictating the amount of time they will be “married.” Once this
is done, they can have sex like bunnies without contradicting Islamic
law.
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