Comments on: 15 Rites of Passage From Around the World

By: Kokoro Tenshin

Kokoro Tenshin — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:38:39 +0000

This is stupid what a waste of my time

By: Salamander

Salamander — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:20:35 +0000

up and J grr grrr grrr

By: Orishi Kirro

Orishi Kirro — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:19:32 +0000

whatever

By: Keoni "Chashew" Jaimeson

Keoni "Chashew" Jaimeson — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:34:50 +0000

I love those boys they’re soooooo hot!

By: Jeffery turnball

Jeffery turnball — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:25:20 +0000

ohhh im totaly down to fuck !!!! i have a fish fetis ! come fuck right now!

By: meghan fucking west

meghan fucking west — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:21:32 +0000

You people are all fucking retarded and I want to have hot sex with your parents yeah bab!

By: ella

ella — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:34:43 +0000

this things dope

By: cjniya

cjniya — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:27:00 +0000

Recently some English families sent their daughter to the celebration for the passage into Adulthood. The girls in this celebration are dressed up as princesses—- they wear the evening dress and go into the ball as the princesses. Everything in the celebration is perfect as the scene in the fairy stories—- princess dances with the prince and then they marry and have a happy life. The reality is more complicated than this.
These girls are trained from their gestures to they make ups for months just for the preparation of this celebration. And the holder of this celebration said that she just want to restore and promote this tradition, which is very popular in the 19th century—- the rich family sent their daughters to the ball for the passage into Adulthood and seek husbands for them in the ball. The holder said she wanted to restore this tradition, but I think it is out of time. Now the girls have more ways to know boys. In my opinion, the bar or the concert would be a better place for knowing someone. And the dress for the passage into Adulthood should be changed into short dresses, the ornaments should be changed from the jewelry to the rubber wristbands. I think the tradition should change by time, and it proves that this kind of development is the best way to restore and promote the tradition. After all, how many people could afford the charge for that formal celebration for passage into Adulthood? Only the evening dress costs more than ten thousand dollars.
If the aim for this kind of celebration is not for showing off, but for the charities, then we should know it costs more than it could earn. The expense for this celebration, both the money and the time could be used to help more people. The costs for the dresses could afford the expense of one orphanage in South America or in Africa. Is it really helpful to have such celebration?

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:18:49 +0000

Thanks for a fantastic and informative article. I was researching rites of passage for a piece that I am writing and this really helped.

By: jen

jen — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:16:55 +0000

I was doing seriious research for an article I am writing but this was great to stumble upon.
Check out the cardboard hat on the African…waste not, want not, eh?

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:07:34 +0000

Ya’ gotta’ love Norway. (We might have done something like that here…but we didn’t know what to call it. I think it was just called getting hammered…)

By: Television Spy

Television Spy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:47:10 +0000

Yikes I wouldn’t say hunting is a rite of passage anymore, a barbaric one in this day and age.

By: Debt Consolidating

Debt Consolidating — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:11:30 +0000

i love all of the pics. thanks so much for making me fall out of my seat laughing

By: M@

M@ — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:28:05 +0000

Skiing the headwall at Tuckerman Ravine.
For east coast skiers, if you spend any time with other skiers you’ll hear about this place. It’s a 2+ hr hike, you carry all your own gear, and if you’re really gnar you spend the night and do it again the next morning.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:30:02 +0000

Wow. Rumspringa sounds pretty crazy. How come we never heard of this before or saw pictures? Is there a “Amish Go Wild!” series of videos we can buy? One day Jedediah is harvesting crops and the next week he’s doing beer bongs and snorting blow off a hooker’s ass.

By: John Davis

John Davis — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:25:34 +0000

OMGosh dude that Lion picture is amazing!

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By: simon

simon — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:38:20 +0000

Great article Hepburn!

By: chad

chad — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:24:33 +0000

my Father has welcomed me to manhood twice in my life.

1. killing, skinning, and butchering my first deer (age 14)
2. signing the paper work for my school loans and collecting my first serious financial burden of about $54,000 (age 18)

The second one I think is really interesting because in today’s American society I think he kind of has a point… you get thrown face first into responsibility with a few quick licks of an ink pen that will test you in more ways than hunting a deer or removing foreskin will ever do.

By: pete

pete — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:00:34 +0000

Modern day music festivals are also a sort of rite of passage. Multiple days camping with all the lures of pleasure island and more…

By: carly

carly — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:49:34 +0000

having made a Bat Mitzvah when i was 13, this article was very interesting as i learned about many other rituals. i find the walkabout the most intriguing and wonder how old the men are when they participate in it.