'Strange culture': Meet the sperm-drinking Etoro tribe of Papua New Guinea

The Etoro tribe’s semen-drinking ritual must rank as one of the world’s most bizarre rituals. It’s a ceremonial practice that encourages homosexual paedophilia, which most of the world find revolting, yet the practice itself is not sexual at all to the Etoro.

While the Western world views semen as being a sexual byproduct, this is not exactly the case for the Etoro people. Many cultures around the world have different rituals and traditions to become an adult. These different rituals are most commonly seen with the many different religious ceremonies performed when a child is coming of age.


The Etoro tribe of South-Western Papua New Guinea have a ritual for boys who are becoming adults, but not too many people in the western world would be too keen to participate in this one. The boys of the Etoro tribe must consume semen to become men. Why on Earth would boys of the Etoro tribe be forced to consume semen to be considered men? In order for an Etoro boy to become a man, he must drink the semen of elder men in the tribe.

They believe that every individual has a vital force, and that the strongest concentration of this force is found in semen. The boys are assigned a partner when going through the transition to adulthood. If a woman fails to fall pregnant, she is viewed as squandering the power of the semen.

The Etoto tribe’s semen-drinking ritual is not the only such ritual in Papua New Guinea. The Sambia people of the Eastern Highlands also have ritualised homosexuality and semen ingestion for pubescent boys to make the transition from boy to man. The Etoro tribe semen-drinking ritual is simply a ritual that has no sexuality associated with it at all. 

Source: unrealfacts.com