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This ritual almost certainly originated as a couvade, designed to collectively relieve the extreme stress this particular social group was forced to live under.
The condition, technically known as couvade syndrome, finds males vicariously sharing their female partners' pregnancy symptoms -- such as nausea, backache, increased appetite, and food cravings.
At this stage of scientific and technological revolution, not even a man in the throes of the so-called couvade syndrome can genuinely develop a pregnancy bulge.