For a boy child when they reach the age of noticing their body parts and you find him pulling or stretching his penis, this was taken as a sign of something wrong in his blood. In our days most people confuse this by thinking that the boy child is learning or is noticing different parts of his body. To treat this they used a certain type of grass, and insert it slightly into the anus and rub the grass until a small amount of blood is noticed. They believed that the bad blood has come out. Not like the girls this practice is done once. Another thing that was done to the boys was to squeeze out water from their breasts, so that they would not grow big. UPam: Okunye engingasoze ngikukhohlwe kwenzakala eKiribati ebandleni elalilabazalwane abalutshwane. Kwakulomdala oyedwa okwakuthiwa ngu-Itinikai Matera owenza konke okusemandleni akhe ukuthi asinakekele. Ngelinye ilanga wafika ethwele ibhasikiti eyayileqanda elilodwa. Wathi, “Ngiphathele lina.” Iqanda lenkukhu laliyikudla okumangalisayo ngalezonsuku. Umusa wakhe wasithinta kwamancane lanxa akwenzayo kwakungakhanya kungatsho lutho.