SHOCK: Hazing has become a tradition among fraternities in the US (STOCK IMAGE) (Image: GETTY) One such hazing initiation is the elephant walk. With pressure from universities and national offices, and with the ever-present threat of litigation, fraternities can no longer get away with some of the hazing rituals of old. 5.

It’s hardly surprising that the U.S. has such homoerotic military rituals. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. The mens’ hunched over bodies and extended arms are said to resemble elephants connected tail to trunk.Also known as “Neptunus Rex ceremonies,” these naval ceremonies commemorating the passage of crews over the global equator harken back to the 1940s and possibly earlier. Junior sailors must lick the Baby’s navel area, while the Baby grabs and shakes their head to better smear the goo onto their faces…There’s a thin (perhaps nonexistent) line between these homoerotic military rituals and hazing, sexual assault and rape. First-time sailors (polywogs) are led by seasoned sailors (shellbacks) who temporarily “seize control” of the ship and begin all manner of prankish tomfoolery.Typically, one experienced sailor will dress as King Neptune, god of the ocean, and oversee the hijinks (led by the older sailors) which can include stripping down and shaving sailors, forcing naked polywogs to run a gauntlet of abuse, public-style kangaroo courts with sexual interrogations, nude physical examinations and something called The ritual calls for initiates to kneel before a senior member of the crew, who wears a mock diaper. Many straight, gay and bisexual men have said that the shared showers, latrines and changing areas; the pent-up horniness and need for sexual expression all And yet, the military is also a rigidly masculine place that values strength and stoicism along with submission to the chain of command. You can unsubscribe at any time.SICK: Elephant walks are one of the horrific initiations at universitiesSHOCK: Hazing has become a tradition among fraternities in the US (STOCK IMAGE)HORROR: College students have all heard of the mythical elephant walk While we’ve heard about paddling the exposed buttocks of new recruits, we’ve also heard of simulating anal intercourse between members as a “horseplay” way of establishing dominance and humiliating newcomers.

A group of guys form a straight line and grab the penis of the guy behind them with one hand and put their thumb in the lad in front of them then they walk a in a circle. Elephant Walk is a 1954 American drama film produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by William Dieterle, and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch and Abraham Sofaer. They teach so much more than what can be read in a textbook.”Online forum No Bullying says fraternity hazing has caused 182 deaths since the 1800s.It adds hazing rituals like the elephant walk can be very damaging.It says on its website: “Many students do not believe there is harm in the acts of hazing.“They are however, not aware of the long-term effects of hazing or that hazing may also produce psychological trauma.“One student reported that he was re-traumatised after the elephant walk brought back memories of an earlier childhood sexual assault.”When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Elephant Walk is a tradition at Texas A&M University in which the senior class walks around campus to remember the good times they had at Texas A&M. The version I heard was basically the same as number 3 here . For one, the military is an intensely homoerotic place. It is based upon the novel Elephant Walk by "Robert Standish", the pseudonym of the English novelist Digby George Gerahty. These aren’t pointless tasks.“Let’s not forget that fraternities are educational facilities. Hazing has changed. The elephant walk is a ritual that requires the pledges to mimic the procession of elephants, commonly seen at circuses. It also looks at native ceremonies It signifies the last time that the seniors will stand as a part of the 12th Man student corpus. This tradition generally takes place the week before the last regular-season football game, which before A&M's 2012 move to the Southeastern Conference was the Texas game. Thus, homoerotic initiation rituals allow servicemembers to inflict the abuses they’ve endured and also test new members’ willingness to submit to tradition and group-think without succumbing to emotion or “destructive” homosexual desires.Some also think that nudity removes one’s social armor and makes one utterly vulnerable, psychologically and socially bonding lower-ranking servicemembers through a shared experience of physical exposure and light humiliation.Burke says the apple ritual was discontinued after the public caught wind of it.In a public talk, Ward discussed a well-known and long-practiced hazing ritual known as The Elephant Walk, “where lines of males walk while grabbing the penis of the male behind them with one hand and [then] use the other hand to grab the sphincter of the male in front of them.”We’ve heard variations of this where men simply hold onto the penis of the man walking in front of them or insert one thumb into the preceding man’s anus, putting the thumb in his mouth if it ever slips out.