Malawian 'Hyena Man' Arrested for Having Sex with Children. BBC, July 26, 2016. www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36892963
(Eric Aniva "has been arrested on the president's orders")
My comment: There is no need to read either report above. read (2), though. 作者: choi 时间: 7-26-2016 14:42 本帖最后由 choi 于 7-26-2016 14:51 编辑
(a) "It's [Hyena's] a traditional title given to a man hired by communities in several remote parts of southern Malawi to provide what's called sexual 'cleansing.' If a man dies, for example, his wife is required by tradition to sleep with Aniva before she can bury him. If a woman has an abortion, again sexual cleansing is required.
"And most shockingly, here in Nsanje, 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.
(b) "They [Hyenas]are paid from $4 to $7 (£3 to £5) each time.
(c) "According to custom, sex with the hyena must never be protected with the use of condoms. But they [three women in their 50s and custodians of the initiation traditions in their village] say a hyena is hand-picked for his good morals, and therefore cannot be infected with HIV/Aids.
(d) "The UN estimates that one in 10 of all Malawians carry the virus, so I ask [a hyena Eric] Aniva if he is HIV-positive. He astounds me by saying that he is - and that he doesn't mention this to a girl's parents when they hire him.
(e) "According to Father Clause Boucher, a French-born Catholic priest who's lived in Malawi for 50 years and is now its pre-eminent anthropologist, the rituals date back centuries.
(f) "When I ask Aniva too whether he wants his daughter to undergo sexual cleansing, he surprises me again. 'Not my daughter. I cannot allow this.'
Note: Malawi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malawi
(landlocked; by Lake Malawi; Independence from UK in 1964; The name Malawi comes from the Maravi, an old name of the Nyanja people that inhabit the area)