Offensive conduct or speech.
Certain vocabulary words, and certain conduct violates the sanctity of the relationship among members of fraternal groups, i.e. siblings and cousins up to the fourth-or fifth-cousin relationship, and is thus considered offensive to them. Such conduct or speech is traditionally avoided in the presence of a sexually mixed fraternal group of two or more members. In past time, if the severity of the offense warranted, the offender was punished by death. The following are examples of offensive conduct: For a woman to wear a skirt halfway between knee and thigh or higher, ngēleh; for a man to touch the breast or thigh of a woman, including one's spouse in view of others; for couples to embrace, including spouses, in view of others; mixed bathing between sexes; for spouses to bathe together in view of others; exposure of a sex organ, as when bathing or urinating; defecation in view of others; for a woman to urinate in view of others.