How common is it to share your partner? Practices from around the world? These are ancient practices, still followed in some tribes today ..
Would you indulge in such an activity?
Here's a tribe-by-tribe breakdown of ritualized or communal sexual practices, both historical and some still present (though often evolved or fading under modern influence). These practices weren't about “promiscuity” — they served deep social, spiritual, or reproductive functions.
1. Barí People – Venezuela & Colombia
Practice: Partible Paternity
Belief: A child can have multiple biological fathers; the more men a woman sleeps with during pregnancy, the stronger and more protected the child will be.
Cultural Role: Each man takes responsibility for the child — creating social safety nets and increasing the child’s chances of survival.
Status Today: Still observed in some Barí communities, though declining under Christian missionary influence.
2. Mehinaku Tribe – Brazil (Xingu Basin)
Practice: Multiple Sexual Partners for Conception
Similar to Barí, they believe in "multiple sperm contributions" to ensure the child receives different strengths.
Women actively choose multiple partners during their fertile periods.
Status Today: Fading, but not gone. Still occasionally practiced in remote areas.
3. Yanomami – Amazon Rainforest (Venezuela/Brazil)
Practice: Sexual Sharing within Kinship Groups
While not formally “cuckolding,” there is sexual fluidity and sharing of women among brothers or in-laws, especially in polygynous households.
Partible paternity also present.
Status Today: Still found, though impacted by missionary contact and modernization.
4. Mosuo – China (Yunnan Province)
Practice: “Walking Marriages” (Tisese)
Matrilineal society where women can have multiple lovers over a lifetime.
Men do not marry or move in; they visit at night and leave in the morning.
Children are raised by the woman’s family, not the biological father.
Status Today: Still practiced, though influenced by tourism and Chinese government modernization efforts.
Practice: Open Marriages & Partner Sharing
It’s culturally normal for married women to take lovers, with their husband’s full knowledge and consent.
Hospitality includes offering one’s wife to a respected guest for the night — considered an act of honor.
Status Today: Still common, though less openly discussed in urban-influenced Himba regions.
6. Inuit (Arctic Circle: Canada, Greenland, Alaska)
Practice: Wife Sharing for Hospitality
Historically, inviting a guest to sleep with one’s wife was part of extreme hospitality in harsh, isolated climates.
It built trust, alliance, and survival networks.
Status Today: Rare and often disavowed, but still known among elders and in oral histories.
7. Trobriand Islanders – Papua New Guinea
Practice: Free Sexual Expression Before Marriage
Young people engage in open courtship and sexual exploration, with few taboos.
Ritual dances and communal huts (bukumatula) encouraged bonding.
After marriage, monogamy is expected — but before that? Party time.
Status Today: Still widely practiced in rural communities.
8. Polynesian Tribes – Marquesas Islands & Tahiti
Practice: Sexual Freedom & Ritualized Intercourse
Pre-colonial Polynesian societies were known for relaxed sexual norms, including communal sex rites during festivals.
Virginity was not idealized; sexual pleasure was celebrated.
Status Today: Heavily altered by Christian colonization, but stories and occasional traditions survive in cultural memory.
9. Ancient India – Devadasi and Tantric Rites
Practice: Sacred Sexual Rituals
Devadasis were women dedicated to temples, often involved in ritual sex as spiritual offerings (though later commercialized and corrupted).
Tantric practices used sexual union (Maithuna) as a tool for spiritual enlightenment — not lust, but liberation.
Status Today: Devadasi system is illegal and mostly extinct. Tantra survives in modern neo-Tantra practices (globally popular but heavily modified).
10. African Tribes – Eg. Dogon (Mali), Yoruba (Nigeria)
Practice: Fertility Festivals & Spirit Marriage
Some tribes practiced spirit marriages, where sexual union with a “possessed” or spiritually chosen partner was considered divine.
In fertility rituals, women (or priestesses) may have ritual intercourse to appease deities or bless crops.
Status Today: These are now rare and often secretive, as they conflict with modern religious or legal norms.
Tiwi of Australia – practiced arranged marriages from birth but had informal sexual arrangements during youth.
Samburu (Kenya) – young warriors have consensual sex with young girls during specific rites (now criticized and under reform).
Kerala, India (Historical Nair community) – practiced Sambandham, where women could have multiple “visiting husbands.” Children belonged to the mother’s family line.
Why Did These Practices Persist for Centuries?
1. They worked. For small, isolated, or resource-scarce societies, shared responsibility and open bonds increased survival chances.
2. They weren’t about morality — they were about community, kinship, and the sacred.
3. Women often had more agency than in patriarchal systems; in many of these, the woman chose her partners.
Many of these practices have declined, due to colonialism, religion, globalization, and modern legal systems.
Yet they persist in modified, coded, or ceremonial ways — or are remembered in oral traditions and revived through cultural pride.
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P.S : the post is intended for sharing knowledge and is not intended to judge any particular community practices.
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