The Millennium Shrimp

I never realized that passing men were a part of traditional Albanian society. Although, I guess they wouldn’t really be passing men, since their families know they aren’t biological males and they have to remain virgins. But other than that, they are biological females who chose to live as men, and were treated as such by their surrounding society. It’s the type of thing you read about in the anthropological literature, for some small, obscure tribal group that stopped practicing it around about the time of western contact. Still, it goes to show the deep and profound isolation that Albania has been in for most of it’s history.