In Down Among The Wild Men, the anthropologist, John Greenway, describes the process by which Aboriginal adolescents from the Western Desert become men thus: ‘a boy becomes a man by having an upper central incisor pounded out of his head with a rock… by having his foreskin cut off in little pieces… and by having his penis slit through to the urethra from the scrotum to the meatus’.
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