User:McKennaKita/Sexual rites of passage

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Sex training tests[edit]
Chinamwali is a three-month ritual performed in Eastern Province, Zambia. Female initiators known as alangizi teach sexual practices to girls as young as twelve years old. Afterwards, they are sent to an older man from the community who 'tests' their sexual skills and decide whether they need to go back for more training. The practice is underreported, as those who undergo it are sworn to secrecy.

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Boy insemination initiation rites[edit]
Sexual initiation rites of pre-pubescent boys as young as seven years old is or was practiced in many cultures and usually involves sexual acts with older males, for example in the New Guinea Highlands. Among the Baruya, Etoro, and Sambia peoples, fellatio and the ingestion of semen is performed; the Kaluli practice anal sex to 'deliver' semen to the boy. These rites are often based on the belief that women represent cosmic disorder. Similar rites of ‘boy insemination’ used to be practiced by societies of indigenous Australians, in ancient Greece, and in Japan during the Edo (Tokugawa) period.

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Prepubescent girls (aged twelve to seventeen) are sent to a training camp where women known as anamkungwi, 'key leaders', teach them how to cook, clean, and have sexual intercourse in order to be good wives. At the training camp they girls were told a message that they should sleep with a man in order to get rid of child 'dust' or else they body will become diseased. After the training, a man holding the traditional position of hyena (not to be confused with the animal) performs the three-day cleansing ritual for a sum of money ($4-7 per girl in 2016).Sometimes girls are required to perform the chisamba, a bare-breasted dance at the end of her initiation in front of the whole community.

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Sexual cleansing after menarche[edit]
In some regions of Malawi (mainly Chikwawa, Nsanje, and Salima Districts) a ceremony of ritual purification known as kusasa fumbi (lit. 'brushing off the dust') is performed. In it, girls have sexual intercourse following menarche. This ceremony may also be performed after an abortion or becoming a widow. Kusasa fumbi is also practiced in parts of Angola, Congo, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.

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