@petra @EssentialUtinsil @jb @threalist for sure. Those, if anything, would fall into private humiliations, which many types of people do.

IMO people overuse "humiliation ritual" - and if something seems like it could be humiliating, they call it that. But I think you have to at minimum see a person who has been thoroughly humiliated- and see their behavior before and after to grasp what it looks like.

And of course, the classic Janissary is kind of the ritual everyone has in mind - the important thing to note about it is that it was incredibly obvious what was going on. No-one didn't know about it.