All people on the planet learn with age what sex is, but not all people have the same ideas about it. Some tribes or even entire peoples managed to come up with unimaginable rituals and for such a long time of existence continue to honor their sexual traditions. For us this is wildness, but for them it is an absolute norm. Introducing 10 shocking sexual traditions from tribes and peoples of the world.
1. Sambia is a sperm drinking tribe
This tribe has a rather strange ritual to turn a boy into a man. At the age of 7, the boy is taken from the tribe to the settlement of men so that he does not have any contact with women, and is admitted to the common tribe after 10 years. For all 10 years, the future man is constantly pierced the skin, bleeding from the nose and causing vomiting by feeding a teenager a huge amount of sugar cane. Thus, the young man is cleansed before contact with a woman at the age of 17.
Also, the future man of this tribe is forced to drink the sperm of the elders, explaining this by the fact that the sperm will help the boy to mature faster and become stronger. Even upon returning to the tribe during his woman's menstruation, a man must bleed through the nose.
2. Mardujara - a tribe practicing unusual circumcision and meatotomy
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The growing up ritual of this tribe consists of several procedures. In the first part of the ritual, a teenager is barbarously circumcised, after which the boy must eat his newly cut foreskin. In the second part of the ritual, a meatotomy is performed for a teenager - cutting the lower part of the penis along the canal up to the scrotum itself, for purification, the flowing blood must drip into the fire. From this point on, the man will urinate through the remaining portion of the urethra, which is quite far from the head of the penis. It is not clear, of course, what is so courageous in this ritual.
3. Trobriands - a tribe in which they begin to have sex at the age of 6
The inhabitants of the island of Papua New Guinea show the sexual revolution by example. Girls of this tribe start having sex from 6-8 years old, and boys from 10-12, and this is considered absolutely normal. But this does not mean that they have promiscuous ties, to prevent this, there are a couple of specially invented customs in the tribe. Still, it would not be so early to grow up here, because the fair sex of this tribe walk topless.
The most sacred thing among the Trobriands is eating together. It is strictly forbidden for a man to share a meal with a woman before marriage or whatever they call it.
4. Waterfalls Sau-d'O - a favorite place for debauchery voodoo followers
If you rest in Haiti and God forbid you get to the Saut d'Eau waterfalls, then you can see a very unusual ritual of local voodoo followers. Every year they make a pilgrimage to these falls to perform a ritual of worship for the local goddess of love.
Does everything seem nice and decent? No matter how it is! Imagine a bunch of naked writhing people in the mud and blood of sacrificed animals, also add the severed heads of the same animals to this picture. This sight is unlikely to please a healthy person.
5. Nepalese - a people where brothers share a wife
From an article in Psychology Today: “Nearly all of the few polyandric societies practice what anthropologists call fraternal polyandry, where a group of brothers shares a wife. This is common in the Himalayas, where there is very little fertile land and the appearance of another son would mean dividing the land so that another son could found his own family. To save space, they start to create a family hostel with a common wife."
6. Wodaby - a tribe where men steal wives from each other, Niger
In the Wodaby tribe, Niger, West Africa, it is customary to steal wives from each other during the holiday of Gherevol. The wedding is arranged for the children of the tribe as early as childhood, while the wife and husband are cousins to each other. But not everything is so sad with diversity. On the annual holiday Herevol, it is customary for men of this tribe to decorate, dress up and steal wives from each other. If the couple managed to leave this holiday unnoticed, then their new marriage is considered completely legal, and the muddled husband is left with nothing, of course, unless he stole another wife for himself. These marriages are considered to be made for love.
7. Ancient Egyptian pharaohs practicing public masturbation
The pharaohs of ancient Egypt had an unusual rite where the pharaoh masturbated and ejaculated into the Nile River. The fact is that ebb and flow happened all the time in the Nile River, and it was believed that such a ceremony would provide an abundance of water. On this occasion, in Egypt there was even an official holiday of the god Ming, dedicated to the potency of the pharaoh, at which all the men present were to masturbate in public.
8. Ancient Greece, where homosexuality was considered absolutely normal
The ancient Greeks did not perceive sexual orientation as a social indicator. In fact, they didn't care what gender the sexual partner was, the most important aspect of sex was who was who. Being active on this issue meant higher status and masculinity, while passivity was associated with lower social status, femininity and youth.
9. Ancient Greece: pederasty is the norm
In ancient Greece, there was such a thing as paiderastia, which literally means love for boys. It was the "love" of older men for younger boys. The teenager was considered a boy until he started to grow a beard. At the same time, the older man was called erastes, and he had to love, support and protect, teach and serve as an example for his young eromenos. It was indecent to feel love for a boy under 12 years old, but there were no laws against it.
10. Modern culture of Iran, where you can buy a temporary marriage if you have money
Muslim culture is one of the strictest in terms of sexual acts and sexual relations between a man and a woman. For example, Muslim couples can only have sex in the missionary position. Asking a husband to change his position is considered demeaning.
However, in some Muslim countries, such as Iran, a young couple who would like to have sex before they are ready to get married can buy a "temporary marriage." Partners have the right to pay for a short ceremony, as a result of which a contract is concluded, which will indicate the exact time of marriage. After that, they can have sex without violating Islamic laws.
