The mouth rite and latipso were extremely convincing and amazing to me. The Nacirema participate in daily bodily rituals, one of which is a mouth rite… but it is not the daily mouth rite which involves putting pig hairs and other assortments into the mouth, accompanied by particular movements of the hands, which surprises me, but the mouth private. rite. The private oral rite involves having a practitioner enlarge any hole in the mouth and/or pull teeth, then filling the holes made with some type of magical material. This is done to stop decadence and to foster friendships and it is done twice a year! Latipso ceremonies are ceremonies held at healers' temples to help the sick and which involve torture-like treatments. Upon entering the temple, Nacirema's men must remove all clothing and are made to perform their natural functions in a container, which I can only assume is some sort of masturbation to produce ejaculation. While the women of Nacirema are also forced to remove all their clothes, but are then watched intensely while they are poked and prodded by the healers. These are so striking because the Nacirema are so absorbed in these rituals and treatments to rid the body of its ugly and diseased tendencies, that they do them repetitively but they still do not stop its innate ugliness and