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Secondly, and using the same song, another three (sometimes the same women) pairs
did the pubic hair shaving demonstration. This took more time for each pair had to
shave each other. Unlike in the bathing ritual above, where it was only the wife who
bathed the husband and not vice versa. The women folded a piece of cloth into a
shape of a man's sexual organ on his body. The one being shaved sat with legs up
and the one doing the shaving knelt in front with a razor blade in her hand. They then
changed. However, when the husband was shaving the wife they ended up having
sex. There was a lot ofsinging and ululating from the women.
The next was a demonstration on when a couple must abstain from sexual activity. A
husband was making advances for sex to his wife who was lying down. The wife was
refusing because she was having her period, the mother was away, or a child was sick.
They showed that the man insisted and eventually succeeded and had sex with her.
However, the teaching was that this should not happen that way. If it did, the mother
or the child would suffer from mdulo disease.
A demonstration on how to caress a husband and perform sexual activity followed
while singing this song:
48. Tiye tiye
Sewera naye
Go ahead, go ahead
Play with him
Singing softly and standing facing each other, one woman held a folded piece ofcloth
while the other caressed it. Then one woman sat with her legs stretched, while the
other woman knelt facing the one seated. While kneeling, one started dancing and
shaking her waist. She was then joined by the one seated, but now kneeling
backwards. They both ended laying down on top ofeach other and simulating having
sexual relations. When they had exchanged places, the women performed with the
initiates, one acting like the husband and the other like a wife and vice versa. After
this they and the room were very dusty. The girls were instructed not to shake offthe
dust, because the witches might 'catch' the dust and use it to bewitch the girls. Then
they sang another song, while demonstrating how to clean the husband's private parts
after having sex.
49. Anzanu atere, atere, atere, atere Your friends do this, this, this
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