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These information was taken from different sources.
It is for informational purposes only, this website will not be
held responsible if you are caught on a piercing. This isn't medical advice,
only information gathered from various sources.
The word "Guiche" is supposed to mean an opening in French, the actual
translation is "window". This piercing is supposed to be a Samoan puberty
ritual, but Derek Freeman Professor Emeritus of the Anthropology Department of
The Australian National University, one of the world"s foremost authorities
on Samoa informed me that he had no experience of this practice in Samoa. The
puberty ritual practised in Samoa is subincision, this is where the underneath
of the foreskin is cut down to the fraenulum. Professor Freeman stated that this
practice has never existed in Samoa, and if it had in the past he would have been
aware of it.
Doug Malloy Travelled to Tahiti just before WW2, where he met an Australian
sailor who had jumped ship named Reggie Jones. Reggie told Doug about the piercing,
and performed the piercing for him.
Doug Malloy said that this piercing originated in Tahiti, the piercing was
done at age 12-14 and a leather thong inserted into the piercing, a small weight
either a rock or a shell was hung from the thong once the piercing was healed.
The procedure was performed by a "Mahu", in Tahiti a Mahu is a transvestite
male who has taken on the role of a women, they are highly respected members
of society, and they were said to possess magical powers by adherants of the
ancient Tahitian religion. However, again I can find no evidence of this practice
in any literature about Tahiti.
The ancient Polynesian mariners used to judge their direction by the movement
of the waves, the best way to do this was to squat down and feel this movement
through the swinging of the testicles. The Raphe Perineum where the Guiche piercing
is done is the site of a large amount of nerves, and having a weight hanging
from the piercing could possibly have helped the ancient mariners derive their
direction, but this is only speculation on my part.
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