1.The Sambians: The Se`m`en-drinking
tribe – Papua, New Guinea
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.
To top it off, they are required to ingest the
Se`m`en of their elders, 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’ mentrual cycles.
2 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 pen1`s 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 pen1`s
instead of the urethra. The real question,
however, is how does destroying a boy’s
‘manhood’ bring him into manhood?
3 The Trobrianders : The tribe where kids
start having s`exx 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 s`exxual revolution:
girls want s`exx just as much as guys, and
kids start having s`exx 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 s`exx
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.
4.Saut d’Eau: The city where you may
witness rituals of voodoo and love
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-nak`e`d
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.
5 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.
6Th3 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.
7 Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs: The
pharaohes who would practice public
marst`bation
According to s`exx and Society, “even the
ebb and flow of the Nile was thought to be
caused by Atum’s (the god of creation)
ej`culation. This concept spurred the
Egyptian pharaohs to ritually mas*ba`te into
the Nile to ensure an abundance of water.”
The ancient Egyptians were so inspired by the
act of self-st`multion that at the festival of
the god Min, who represented Pharaoh’s
s`exxual potency, men mas*ba`ted in
public.
8 Ancient Greece: Where homos`exxuality
was completely out of the closet
The ancient Greeks did not conceive of
s`exxual orientation as a social identifier the
way Western societies have done for the past
century. Greek society did not distinguish
s`exxual desire or behavior by the gender of
the participants, but rather by the role that
each participant played in the s`exx 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.
9Ancient Greece: When pederasty was the
social convention
The most common form of same-s`exx
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.
10Modern 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 s`exxual
inter`cause and the relationships between
men and women. For instance, Muslim
couples are only allowed to have s`exx 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
s`exx 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 s`exx like bunnies without
contradicting Islamic law.
I know most people wish they had a similar law in their countries.
