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Vegetable Nudity #1: Penis Gourds for Mark & Olly while initiated (Living with the Mek)

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The Chief honors Mark and Olly with initiations. Part of the rites involve wearing a 20" gourd around the penis. ===== http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Living_with_the_Tribes/ci.Ollys_Blog_-_Initiation.show?vgnextfmt=show Here's an excerpt from Ollie's blog. Go to above link to read it all. It would begin immediately, as the Elders were already waiting in his hut for the ceremonial gourd fitting. Sadly there are too few places left in the world where you can publicly insert your penis into a vegetable without threat of legal action or even concerned consternation from your peers. Here the vegetable or 'beek' to give its Mek name has been worn for thousands of years with pride and courage and without pain or ridicule. This is the land of the vegetable. They are farmed and they are worn. But I am not from this land and whilst I wish I could say that wearing a root crop was something I have looked forward, sadly it is not. Chief Marcus presented Mark, Aniel and I with our gourds and gestured for us to put them on. It is a gesture I have never seen before and to retain some of the mystery of the Mek it is something I wont reveal. All I will say is that being presented with a 20inch gourd does your self-esteem a whole world of good. But the Mek, despite many of the men being under five foot tall, still have the largest gourds of any tribe I know, which leads mw to one of two conclusions - either they have something akin to a Napoleon complex or of course, they are hung like something from the Carboniferous era. But as soon as I donned my gourd all motivation of cultural enquiry dissipated with the pain - a double pain, in part from the sharpened edge at its opening, in part from the thin and cutting string that is tied tightly around one's exposed family heirlooms to ensure that you don't suffer the embarrassment of falling out in an unwanted public display of the crown jewels. Word had spread that the silly white men were to be initiated and a crowd of women and children had gathered outside the hut awaiting the inevitable parade. We exited and in the cold light of day, the horror was apparent. The Mekmen look incredible, the height of sartorial elegance in these valleys, but we looked like exposed prunes. The crowd was serious, faces were drawn towards the floor but no one could hide the direction of their eyes. Unlike the stylized streets of London where you can hide within the anonymity of millions of the similarly dressed, on the ridge of Merengmen, in front of 30+ people (and a video camera) there was no escape. Only Miriam spoke: "Until you arrived I had never seen white men before and I thought I would never ever see a white man in a penis gourd. With my own eyes, today I have". Our intentions of removing the final physical barrier between ¿us and them¿ had left me hopelessly trying to apologize for the unexpected psychological fissure I had opened in their minds. It was one of those moments in life you hope you could open a portal into another dimension and jump through to escape the realities of this world. Thankfully here, nothing is as it first appears. Their shock was quickly replaced with howls of laughter and the moment of feeling like a stranger from a strange land was gone - their smiles welcoming us in, a step closer to becoming more of the community. For more info: http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Living_with_the_Tribes/ci.Meet_Mark_and_Olly.show?vgnextfmt=show&idLink=0928d45822af7110VgnVCM100000698b3a0a____

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