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They belong to the intimate parts. Exposing the bare buttocks as a protest or for fun is called mooning.

In many cultures, corporal punishment is traditionally delivered on the buttocks (it is then called spanking). This is especially true for lighter punishment and domestic discipline on children (and in some cultures, on wives). Different reasons have been put forward to explain this:

• The buttocks are usually not exposed, making the punishment invisible to outsiders (and therefore making it difficult to prosecute cases of severe beating).
• The buttocks are considered shameful, and having to disrobe them for punishment is added humiliation.
• While there are many nerve endings in the area (ensuring substantial pain), there is relatively little risk of the victim sustaining long-term injury since internal organs are unlikely to be affected.
• Some critics of corporal punishment see it as merely a sexual fetish, pointing to the well-documented spanking fetish as evidence, and the buttocks are intimate parts.

The anatomical LatinAlternative meanings: See Latin (disambiguation Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages are descended from Latin, and ma name for the buttocks is nates ( SAMPAThe Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA is a computer-readable phonetic script using 7-bit printable ASCII characters, based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It was originally developed in the late 1980s for six European langua pronunication /nA:ti:s/), which is plural. The singular, natis, is rarely used.