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BALUBA, LUBA (KASAÏ, ZAIRE; SOUTH-CENTRAL CONGO)
Index → Africa→ Zaire → Baluba
Also: Congo
Featured: Mbo, Bwela, Ngwana, Mukete, Basoko, Kuba, Bahemba, Azande, Bakongo, Bakwa-Luntu, Tetela, Muyaka, Alur, Baluba, Baushi, Wagenia
Colle (1913, I:p279)[1] on the Baluba: “Même avant la puberté, garçons et filles se fixent des
rendez-vous secrets, dans les herbes ou sur le bord de la rivière”. Potions may be used in the
intention of altering the course of a slow or accelerated puberty (Enry,
1971:p94). Boys organise masturbation contests to prove their virility.
Burton (1930)[2] notes that marriage is enacted at
age ten to eleven for girls, compared to later ages in the past. The genitals of little
girls (seven to eight onward) are rubbed internally and
externally by themselves with a pepper called kiulamulundu, the juice of which makes the flesh swell. Pieces of
wood were inserted and occasionally the girls resort also to bleeding and
cupping. For this, they would be sent out in the forests by parents for
secret rendezvous known by the term kwikana.
Janssen,
D. F., Growing Up Sexually. VolumeI. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin:
Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology
Last
revised: Sept 2004
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