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I don’t think it was designed like this on purpose; this is a result of a perfect storm. Victorians wanted to stop masturbation, doctors wanted to find a cure, Jewish people were seeking to preserve a long-disputed ritual, and the result was the unholy union we observe today.
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seeking to preserve a long-disputed ritual? the ritual was not threatened. what they sought was to mainstream a cruel, perverse & barbaric practice so that it might seem less bizarre. it was never question of a cure, there was no illness to cure-except that of molestation itself
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The ritual has been contested from the time of the Maccabees, and it was an object in the early times of the church (see New Testament). It wasn’t Jews who were seeking to stop masturbation, but gentile Victorians. Drs were looking, and opportunistic Jews saw their chance.
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you are inferring a lot from the statements of a few crackpots such as Kellogg. as Dr Leonard Glick's book makes clear, the key role was played by jewish doctors seeking to mainstream their peculiar form of child abuse.
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No, Glick’s book quite clearly documents the roles of all people involved in the medicalization of male infant circumcision, not just Jewish ones. Yes, certain Jewish drs player a key role, but they weren’t the only ones responsible for the mainstreaming of circumcision.
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i didn't say the only ones. and the puritanical impulse of US (& jewish, as the Gore Vidal quote suggests) doctors encompasses more than masturbation. the cause of ending genital mutilation need not entail the promotion of masturbation.
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The cause of ending genital mutilation need not entail the vilification of the entirety of Jewish people.
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#i2 My Jewish wife refused circumcision for her 3 sons, if you are going to vilify my wife, please unfollow me https://mondofown.blogspot.com/2015/05/my-jewish-wife-refused-circumcision-for.html … - 1 more reply
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