Okujepisa omukazendu

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Okujepisa omukazendu (lit. 'offering a wife to a guest') is the polyamorous sexual practice of hospitable "wife-sharing" among the nomadic OvaHimba and OvaZemba peoples of Namibia's Kunene and Omusati regions. According to the practice, a man welcomes a male guest (typically a family member or best friend, more rarely an important visitor, and never a stranger or tourist) to his home by allowing the visitor to sleep in the man's bed and have sex with his wife for the night, while the man sleeps in another hut or outside. The woman has little agency in the arrangement. The opposite arrangement, whereby a woman chooses a female friend for her husband to have sex with, exists, but is rare. Women surveyed in rural North Kunene reported that their husbands lend them to friends in hopes of later having sex with the friends' wives. The practice has been described as "generations-old", "centuries-old", and "ancient". The practice's justifications include belief that it deepens friendship and prevents...

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