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while urinating. The scrotum can be pulled up against the open urethra to quasi-complete the tube and allow an approximation to normal urination, while a few subincised men carry a tube with which they can aim.
270:, who studied Damin, no ritual initiations have been carried out in the Gulf of Carpentaria for half a century, and hence the language has also died out. 805: 266:. In later ceremonies, repeated throughout adult life, the subincised penis would be used as a site for ritual bloodletting. According to 472: 378:. George C. Denniston, Frederick Mansfield Hodges, Marilyn Fayre Milos (editors). Springer Science & Business Media. p. 212. 587:
Kempf, Wolfgang (2002). "The Politics of Incorporation: Masculinity, Spatiality and Modernity among the Ngaing of Papua New Guinea".
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Morrison J. (21 January 1967). "The origins of the practices of circumcision and subincision among the Australian Aborigines".
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Cawte JE, Djagamara N, Barrett MG (1966). "The meaning of subincision of the urethra to aboriginal Australians".
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Pounder DJ (September 1983). "Ritual mutilation. Subincision of the penis among Australian Aborigines".
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Coming into Being among the Australian Aborigines: The Procreative Beliefs of the Australian Aborigines.
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are said to perform subincisions on themselves (or sometimes their peers) at age seven to ten. In
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Selected Cross-Generational Sexual Behavior in Traditional Hawai’i: A Sexological Ethnography
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Basedow H. (1927). "Subincision and Kindred Rites of the Australian Aboriginal".
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Disadvantages include the risks inherent in the procedure itself, which is often
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The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
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Margetts, E.L. (1960). "Sub-incision of the urethra in the Samburu of Kenya".
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A mention of penile subincision in Hawaii during the early Twentieth Century
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Body modification involving the slitting open of the underside of the penis
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We the Tikopia: A Sociological Study of Kinship in Primitive Polynesia
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Subincision was traditionally performed around the world, notably in
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The Island of Menstruating Men: Religion in Wogeo, New Guinea
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ritual for adolescent boys. It was given to the Arrernte by
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Operation of Subincision, Warrumanga Tribe, Central Australia
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Samburru notions of health and disease by P Spencer,1959
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The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology
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Roheim, Gésa (1949). "The Symbolism of Subincision".
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Another indigenous Australian term for the custom is
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Symbolic Wounds: Puberty Rites and the Envious Male.
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genital modification or mutilation
urethrotomy
penis
urethra
meatus
Australia
Africa
South America
Polynesian
Melanesian
Pacific
coming of age
self-performed
sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
sperm
vagina
urination
hypospadias
squat



circumcision
central desert of Australia

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