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watch the tv show taboo on national geographic. what is weird to some is normal to others.

last nights show was about the dead. in southern asia and some areas of europe you rent a grave for 3-5 years then your body is removed and another is added in its place. in the philipeans some people willingly live in graveyards. in the us people pay money to have thier family members autopsied. in buddist countries people volunteer to collect the dead and transport them to the morgues to recieve good karma. to them this is normal while to my husband thought t was very odd. some of it i found normal some i though was odd. it all depends on what your cultures norms are. you can also watch old episodes online. its very intresting

agathamari:

watch the tv show taboo on national geographic. what is weird to some is normal to others.

last nights show was about the dead. in southern asia and some areas of europe you rent a grave for 3-5 years then your body is removed and another is added in its place. in the philipeans some people willingly live in graveyards. in the us people pay money to have thier family members autopsied. in buddist countries people volunteer to collect the dead and transport them to the morgues to recieve good karma. to them this is normal while to my husband thought t was very odd. some of it i found normal some i though was odd. it all depends on what your cultures norms are. you can also watch old episodes online. its very intresting

which channel?

A tribe in new Guinea (Sambian)views homosexual activity and semen ingestion in boys as vital to becoming a real man. It is kinda like a rite of passage

Masculinity

In the Sambian tribe a man is seen as someone who is forceful, strong, and can perform in masculine behaviour.  A manly man can perform painful rituals on himself and he can control his wife as well as his estate.  Achieving such manliness is seen as an individual accomplishment.  A man's only protection against his enemies is in fact his masculinity.

It is believed that even though boys are born and have joysticks, they lack sex traits associated with puberty: a muscular body, pubescent glands and even semen.  The Sambians believe that homosexual activity, as rites will increase a boy's manliness.

The transition starts when the boys are seven to ten years of age and will ensue for ten to fifteen years.  Oral ingestion of semen by the boys is important to the growth of their manhood.  Constant semen ingestion takes place because they believe that semen will only accumulate with what semen is swallowed.

Receiving nosebleeds would punish the boys of the Samian tribe.  Nosebleeds are believed to push maturity.  It also will strengthen their resolve on the battlefield.  You must not be afraid to see your own mates blood and therefore, if the enemy kills their mate, they must therefor kill the enemy via revenge.

Boys are also only allowed to drink water, except on the last day of rituals, all other liquids are restricted.  Only taro and yam (which are male food) are allowed to be eaten, but only in small quantities.  This would make the stomach empty and would help the boys to consume what will eventually make them into a man, semen.
       
At the first stage of manhood, there are two activities that occur.  Both are essential to manhood and are supernatural.  The first event involves an object called the Kwolyi-Mutnyi.  This object is roughly a foot and a half long by three inches wide.  It is wrapped in red-dyed bark cloth (which is used in healing methods) and is wrapped around the head of the male.  It is believed that this object will give the boy great masculinity.  The second involves an edge-land forest hut called the Mor-Angu.  This hut is believed to attract a spirit familiar.  These spirit familiars will make the boy stronger, smarter and will contribute towards his masculine longevity.

Read more about them, including their women, here http://people.stu.ca/~belyea/2002/RITES02/libsam.HTM   

I used to watch Taboo, but my siblings couldn't stand it so I had to opt for another show.

I watched one which was a passage rite into manhood. I think it's one of these Papua Guinea countries. Teenage boys would be cut with blades to make their skin look like crocodiles. Just think about it, over a hundred tribal marks on your body. Come and see how some were crying. The cutters didn't even care. They just forced the boys heads into their thighs. . . ewwww. . . .

There was also one where young boys had to stick some kind of curved string down their throat, pass the esophagus and down to the stomach, also in Papua Guinea.   One old man demonstrated it to the young men with ease. One of the boys resisted doing it, if you see as they slapped him ehh, he had to do it by force.

The transition starts when the boys are seven to ten years of age and will ensue for ten to fifteen years. Oral ingestion of semen by the boys is important to the growth of their manhood. Constant semen ingestion takes place because they believe that semen will only accumulate with what semen is swallowed.

*Pukes and faints.*

sweetpie23:

which channel?

nationsl geographic. on dstv buy you can see it on online on teh national geographic website or on youtube

stillwater:

*Pukes and faints.*

And then you guy's will say its hard to be a woman.  Well all I can say to that tradition is hopefully STD's or AID's doesn't hit their communities anytime soon. Lawd have mercy. 

@ Post, I know you said detailed, but mine is simple: lip plates of the Mursi



Hmm, not very 'cute'.

I have promised myself not to look through this thread again. Arghhh!!!

There are some sick cultures in the world:

Heard in some places, a visitor is allowed to shag his friend's wife

Some sects of some religion believe some spirit can come on you and you start ranting in some strange tongues

Some religions believe they can kill in the name of a god and they'll be rewarded by eternal bliss

Saw this on TV, girls not yet into puberty or just getting into puberty have their breasts pressed with hot iron to prevent them being attractive to prospective philanderers

Yeah I saw the breast pounding too. They do it with a hot pestle not iron. I think it's in Cameroun.

And then you guy's will say its hard to be a woman. Well all I can say to that tradition is hopefully STD's or AID's doesn't hit their communities anytime soon. Lawd have mercy.

No wonder they pour all their frustrations on women. The effect of such passage rites is enough to make any person insane.

stillwater:

Yeah I saw the breast pounding too. They do it with a hot pestle not iron. I think it's in Cameroun.

No wonder they pour all their frustrations on women. The effect of such passage rites is enough to make any person insane.

You right stillwater

They use hotpestle, hot stones, hot banana etc etc


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/5107360.stm

breast ironing in cameroon
http://current.com/items/88852332_breast-ironing.htm

z-murda:

I have promised myself not to look through this thread again. Arghhh!!!

There are some sick cultures in the world:

all a matter of perspctive. there are things here in nigeria that outsiders would/do find sick (inherating wives, outdated tradition of killing twins, woman-woman marriage for a male child, ) nigeria was on taboo last season.

^^ nigeria was on taboo? i missed that episode. but that's an outdated practice right? killing twins

agathamari:

outdated tradition of killing twins

Twins are still killed in some communities in Madagascar.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRjQk3Vghr8

africhika:

^^ nigeria was on taboo? i missed that episode. but that's an outdated practice right? killing twins

had to do with the facial/body cuttings.  my huddy has some on his side but none on his face.   what is with that anyway?

some people here have told me in some remote northern tribes they still do it - the twins thing

Masai Kenya

I was watching this culture on TV can't remember the name but dat is the weirdest culture I have ever seen man. they actually have a day can "pain day". and everyone has to under go as much pain as u can. they celebrate it like the way we celebrate christmas, u should see how they ruthlessly beat each others.

sexyLeamon:

I was watching this culture on TV can't remember the name but dat is the weirdest culture I have ever seen man. they actually have a day can "pain day". and everyone has to under go as much pain as u can. they celebrate it like the way we celebrate christmas, u should see how they ruthlessly beat each others.

there are a bunch like that. south east asian countries do this alot, even religious holidays call for blood letting. watching this festival dont remeber the name but it was the day mohameds grandsoon died. children as young as 6 were cutting themselves with razors and standing in pools of blood to show thier devotion to the marter

http://www.colorq.org/Articles/article.aspx?d=2004&x=unexpecteda

Voyeuristic East Asian women enjoy homoerotic displays from men   ewww 

Ancient and medieval writings recorded a large number of instances in which Chinese and Japanese women either spied on, or publicly enjoyed homoerotic performances from men, and also enjoyed men as sexual entertainment in other ways. These stories flies in the face of Western cliches of oppressed Oriental women, whose sexuality is controlled by men.


In modern-day Japan, the main market for gay romance/pornography comic books is heterosexual women! This phenomenon, known as yaoi, is also popular in the Chinese world and has only recently started catching on in the West relatively. East Asian female sexuality has existed INDEPENDENTLY of pleasing men for thousands of years. Yet this idea is never represented in Western popular media.

Many Westerners have the idea that East Asian women are conditioned to take care of others and put the needs of their men before their own. In American films, sexism and racism combine to create a fantasy world in which yellow women exist to serve the pleasures of white men. Whenever you see a yellow woman on American TV or the big screen, she is almost always the love interest of a white man, there to serve as eye-candy and fodder for erotic fantasies about a mysterious Other. It is a wonder then, that after all this media conditioning, many males of European descent confessed their fantasies about indulging in one man-multiple woman group sex with multiple Asian women? There are many white boys who think only of how Asian women can serve them, but not how *they* can serve Asian women. (Now doesn't that make men of European descent just as oppressive as the East Asian men they stereotype as sexist exploiters of Asian women?)

sexyLeamon:

I was watching this culture on TV can't remember the name but dat is the weirdest culture I have ever seen man. they actually have a day can "pain day". and everyone has to under go as much pain as u can. they celebrate it like the way we celebrate christmas, u should see how they ruthlessly beat each others.

africhika:

http://www.colorq.org/Articles/article.aspx?d=2004&x=unexpecteda

Voyeuristic East Asian women enjoy homoerotic displays from men   ewww 

Ancient and medieval writings recorded a large number of instances in which Chinese and Japanese women either spied on, or publicly enjoyed homoerotic performances from men, and also enjoyed men as sexual entertainment in other ways. These stories flies in the face of Western cliches of oppressed Oriental women, whose sexuality is controlled by men.


In modern-day Japan, the main market for gay romance/pornography comic books is heterosexual women! This phenomenon, known as yaoi, is also popular in the Chinese world and has only recently started catching on in the West relatively. East Asian female sexuality has existed INDEPENDENTLY of pleasing men for thousands of years. Yet this idea is never represented in Western popular media.

Many Westerners have the idea that East Asian women are conditioned to take care of others and put the needs of their men before their own. In American films, sexism and racism combine to create a fantasy world in which yellow women exist to serve the pleasures of white men. Whenever you see a yellow woman on American TV or the big screen, she is almost always the love interest of a white man, there to serve as eye-candy and fodder for erotic fantasies about a mysterious Other. It is a wonder then, that after all this media conditioning, many males of European descent confessed their fantasies about indulging in one man-multiple woman group sex with multiple Asian women? There are many white boys who think only of how Asian women can serve them, but not how *they* can serve Asian women. (Now doesn't that make men of European descent just as oppressive as the East Asian men they stereotype as sexist exploiters of Asian women?)

How did you find that? *side eye*

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