There are often psychological processes from different cultures that are often found quite controversial to other cultures. For example, The Sambi is a tribe who lices in New Guinea. These cultures also have many differnet beliefs such as that femaleness is an innate natural essences, whereas maleness is a tenuous essence that must be explicitly cultivated. When borm, boys are viewed as existing in the female word, spending the majority of their time with their mothers and doing what are socially viewed as female tasks. When born, they also wear the same type of grass aprons as females from their tribe wear to distinguish between genders. In the Sambia tribe, it was a very crucil and demeaning process for boys to be 'masculanized'. Painful practices are often encountered in this transition such as piercing their septum of the nose and thrashing the boys with sticks. By the age of 7 years boys regularly ingest semen by performing daily oral sex on adolescent boys and men and around the age of 15 these boys switch roles and provide semen to younger boys. To me, I view this process as very unacceptable. I believe that part of this is due to the heterosexual word we grow up in. In our common culture, boys grow up to be men, not all children born are female and grow up to be men through 'masculization' by ingestion of semen etc. I have not been exposed to many different cultures throughout over my life, therefore I find this process extremely disturbing that it is considered a acceptable and mandatory process in certain cultures.