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Cheek skewering is a ritual or performance activity involving a long skewer going through the cheeks horizontally.

Generally, to "perform" a cheek skewering, a sharpened skewer is pushed from the outside of one cheek with support from the inside of the mouth being applied (this also reduces the amount of pain involved). The skewer is then push through to the other cheek, tenting out the skin dramatically as it exits.

As well as being a traditional "pain proof man" [[sideshow]] act, ritual cheek piercing takes place at the annual Sri Lankan festival of [[Katargama]], and also at the Vegetarian Festival in [[Phuket]], Thailand. In a ritual context, the skewers are often quite decorative.


== '''Trivia''' ==

* The original [[BME logo]] designed by [[Scott Fox]] includes a cheek skewering.


[[Category: Rituals]]