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The puberty ritual for the young Roman male involved shaving his beard and taking off his bulla, an amulet worn to mark and protect underage youth, which he then dedicated to his household gods, the Lares. [2] He assumed the toga virilis ("toga of manhood"), was enrolled as a citizen on the census, and soon began his military service. [3]
Japanese panel from 1750 (Edo period) depicting a samurai having sexual relations with an adolescent boy. Sexual initiation rites of pre-pubescent boys as young as seven years old are or were practiced in many cultures and usually involves sexual acts with older males.
Rituals to celebrate adulthood have existed since ancient times, such as Genpuku (changing to adult clothing) and Fundoshi-iwai (loincloth celebration) for boys and Mogi (dressing up) and Keppatsu (tying the hair up) for girls. [3] Cultural anthropology and folklore studies treat such ceremonies as rites of passage (initiations).
Jewish boy reading a Torah scroll at his Bar Mitzvah, using a Yad Land diving is a rite of passage for boys of the South Pacific island of Pentecost The Mawé people in the Amazon rainforest intentionally use bullet ant stings as a rite of passage into manhood.
Some classic sources identify the age at which children must begin to participate in the ritual of fasting on Yom Kippur as 13 for boys and 12 for girls. The age of b'nai mitzvah roughly coincides with the onset of puberty. [8] The bar/bat mitzvah ceremony is usually held on the first Shabbat after the birthday on which the child reaches the ...
In some Muslim-majority countries, circumcision is performed after boys have learned to recite the Quran from start to finish. [76] In Malaysia and other regions, the boy usually undergoes the operation between the ages of ten and twelve, and is thus a puberty rite, serving to introduce him in the adult world.
Puberty typically begins during the teen or pre-teen years, but a child in India has begun to display the signs at a shockingly early age. The Hindustan Times is reporting that the boy's parents ...
Most boys usually undergo the procedure not shortly after birth but prior to reaching puberty or before high school (around ages 10–14). There exists two common ways of undergoing tuli : either the traditional way by a local village circumciser (known in Tagalog as having it done "de-pukpok") or having it done by medical practitioners in a ...