Mandan turned Sambian

My first initiation rite that I had to explain was the Mandan Initiation for young boys. It was on the 25 most painful initiation passages that Scott posted, and I believe it was number 6. However, another classmate also chose it, so I decided to choose a different initiation for two reasons: more entertainment for the class, and more cultural learning for me.
I chose the Sambian Initiation for young boys. There are two parts of this initiation- bloodletting and tingu. Bloodletting is a pretty common thing throughout initiations, and in the Sambian culture, young boys had sharp blades of grass or sharpened sticks shoved up their noses until blood flowed freely from their noses. This act was symbolic of purifying their blood from all bad spirits and femininity. The second part of initiation was called tingu. Every man and woman has a tingu, because your tingu is your ability to procreate. However, a boy wasn't viewed as a man until he activated his tingu. The way one activiated his tingu was by ingesting the "male essence". So young boys would be sent into the forest and would perform oral sex on an older man and would be encouraged to swallow and ingest as much of the semen as they could, for this was "male essence" and would activate their tingu. After they did this, they were considered men.