In some remote southern regions of Malawi, it's traditional
for girls to be made to have sex with a paid sex worker known as a
"hyena" once they reach puberty. They “hyena” are paid from $4 to $7
(£3 to £5) each time. The act is not seen by village elders as rape, but as a
form of ritual "cleansing". However, as Ed Butler reports, it has the
potential to be the opposite of cleansing - a way of spreading disease.
Teenage girls, after their first menstruation, are made to
have sex over a three-day period, to mark their passage from childhood to
womanhood. If the girls refuse, it's believed, disease or some fatal misfortune
could befall their families or the village as a whole.
According to custom, sex with the hyena must never be
protected with the use of condoms. But they say a hyena is hand-picked for his
good morals, and therefore cannot be infected with HIV/Aids.
This is sad! Who wakes up and comes up with these weird destructive
customs and traditions?
Culled from BBC News:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36843769
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