Tribal Men Nude Original Creator Submissions #718

Over the weekend i've been reading up on photographer and travel blogger marisa papen, who swapped her belgian home for a new cultural experience with the surma tribe in ethiopia, including living nude amongst them, and also shaving her head in the tradition of the surmas You can see many of her photos of the… Explore the naked tribes of africa with their unique culture, each tribe has its own special traditions and way of life. Since becoming a nudist, i have met people who refuse to believe that humans have ever lived customarily naked in any meaningful way They insist nudism is an unnatural aberration, far removed from the norms of any conceivable society, and that tribal people the world over have always worn the minimal loincloth to hide their genitals But the belief that we are inherently born with body shame. Having been isolated from the outside world, the omo tribes including the surma have adopted a number of unique rituals and practices. They buy farming implements and scarce items of clothing used by men on ceremonial occasions from the fulani, bata, chamba and other tribes in the lowlands Once boys and girls turn about 14 and 17, both sexes undergo puberty rituals ( circumcision for boys and extraction of two of the incisors for girls).