主题：【原创】Happy Corner? 磨柱是也 -- 飯飯煩煩

Wikipedia，号称史上最全百科全书，果然名不虚传。近日`本人在wiki上闲逛，胡乱点击词汇链接，竟然找到了吾辈年幼时最热衷的游戏：磨柱（北方或称“卡人”，台湾敬称“阿鲁巴”）之权威解释。奇文共欣赏，小弟不才，请各位看官敬阅：

Happy Corner, also known as Aluba ("hitting the tree" in Taiwan), or Pole-racking in Great Britain, is a practice in which a person's groin is 'cornered' rudely against a pole-shaped solid object.

Scope and variations

It is popular as a hazing ritual among Asian male students, especially those in higher education institutes such as universities, as well as among adolescent males in middle and high school. In addition, it has also been reported as a favorite hazing ritual amongst military personnel in Taiwan.

A male student is lifted up by several of his classmates and his groin is then rubbed against a hard object such as a pole, a tree or even the edge of a door.

In Taiwan, Aluba is usually performed by hitting the victim's groin on a tree trunk or a pole. Additionally, in mainland China the victim's groin is then rubbed on the object, often resulting in torn clothing. In Hong Kong, the ritual is called corning or being corned, whereas in Taiwan it is known as Al or being Al-ed. In some cases two persons are rubbed against each other, resulting in what is called X-con.

Happy Corner is also a growing phenomenon in residence halls, and has become increasingly accepted to mark a male resident's birthday. Happy Corner is then performed along with a song parodying Happy Birthday to You, with the lyrics changed to "Happy Corner to You".

It is also known in Norwegian primary and secondary schools, where it is known as stolping (literally: poling, derived from the word pole) or gjelling (literally: gelding).

It is also done in Portugal as a practical joke, where it is called levar ao poste (literally meaning "being taken to the pole").

The 1998 horror/science fiction film The Faculty featured one of the protagonists (Casey) being the victim of a Happy Corner attack by a group of jocks.[1]

Name origin

Hong Kong

Happy Corner is simply a variation of Happy Birthday. However, the other names used have different origins. Because of the creativity of university students, a number of 'execution methods' are derived, such as Harry Potter Corn, with the victim forced to sit on a hard and stick-like rod, such as a broom or a microphone stand. During the 'execution', the victim is usually surrounded by a huge group of perpetrators who are ready for action. For instance, if the victim is called "ah tung", the leader will first yell "Wai! ah tung!" The victim will usually respond, and after a few seconds of silence, the leader grabs the victim's hands, while the others try to pick up his legs and start the business. Under this surprise attack organized by others, ah tung will be 'enjoying' his happy corner. The process may be filmed and recorded by mobile phones and portable digital cameras or video recorders. For enjoyment, the video is then shared among the perpetrators and sometimes it is also distributed back to the victim.

Taiwan

In Taiwan as early as the late 1970s and early 1980s, students carried out exactly the same hazing practice before the term Aluba was coined. At that time, the practice had no particular name, but a variety of slang expressions with meanings similar to "hitting the tree" were used. Later during the late 1980s and early 1990s, students at The Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University began using the phrase Hō--sí-lah (literal meaning: "Let him die", but pronounced similarly to the number four in Taiwanese). A student then used the Arabic pronunciation of four (arba'atun); use of this term spread and was later corrupted and shortened to Aluba.

It is worth noting that a joke with similar action was common among students at that time:

Two explorers landed on an island full of cannibals and were caught. The tribe chief asked the explorers to choose between death penalty or "being snapped on the penis with a rubber band". The first explorer thought there was nothing worse than death so he made the second choice. The second explorer, hearing the horrid screaming of the first explorer from the torture, chose death. However, the tribe's death penalty was "snapping the penis with a rubber band until death".

Because of the similarity between this joke and the hazing ritual, the two became linked; eventually the "snapping the penis with a rubber band" part was replaced by the term Aluba. Due to the similarity in pronunciation to Aruba, the story was incorrectly described as an incident on Aruba in the Caribbean, and the Arabic origin of the term was largely forgotten. In fact, no such incident occurred in Aruba.

Controversy and problems in Happy Corner subculture

Like most hazing rituals, proponents claim that the intent is not to injure, though victims typically have to face a rather painful physical experience and psychological humiliation. Perpetrators see it as entertainment or a type of practical joke. This practice is considered sexual assault in some countries, where it may be cause for criminal conviction resulting in incarceration.

Happy corner has been very popular among students in higher education since late 1990, especially in orientation camps (popularly called o-camps by students). Part of its controversy stems from the fact that some students hazed other students not familiar with the practice, or hazed the other gender, as an act of simulated sexual intercourse. Students who refused to participate in such activity were described as being "uncooperative", and were labelled the black sheep of the party.

There are reported cases in which students only participated because of peer pressure, which caused emotional abuse. A study also said that this activity may render the victims infertile.[citation needed]

Some have also criticized the Happy Corner subculture for contributing to an openness in attitude in sexual relationships among students.

Owing to potential danger and the implicit sexual nature of the act, the ROC (Taiwan) Ministry of Education has issued a notice that requires all schools to ban this activity. In early 2004, the ROC Ministry of National Defence also forbade this activity among military personnel.

读罢全文，我不禁回忆起吾辈年幼时磨与被磨之经历。

吾校广州七中，系百年老校。适逢90年代末期，江核心同志提出与时俱进之口号，身为名校学生，自然要踊跃响应核心号召努力俱进。因此，happy corner之风在世界各地兴起时，吾辈率先投身于此有利于加强人民内部团结之运动。

90后脑残一族中的Loli们眼中这世上的男人只有“攻”与“受”两种，同样，吾辈眼中之同学亦只有“磨”与“被磨”，一时间校园风声鹤唳，所有呈柱状物体皆为所用。甚至校园外更是处处战场。尤记得初2某日全级郊游，数位同学便因郊野树木过于粗糙，校服质地薄如蝉翼而穿了开档裤.......后因同学们过渡投入，将群众运动与宗教关联，竟发展成了邪恶的“磨教”组织，大肆分封教职，校长大人便下令：严打，从此，运动收敛了许多....写到这里，心中不免开始怀念正在HKU的林同学........

待到入大学，发现内地此运动仍然盛行，只是暴力等级升到了Lv.50，这就是后话了.........

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