And hey, male genital mutilation is banned as it falls under child protection laws. Circumcision isn’t banned for the same reason a labiaplasty isn’t banned. They *should* be used to treat abnormalities that can damage someone’s health.
This is slight misinformation. If I can start on a point I had originally, circumcision has roots in Jewish and Muslim culture. They come from a hot place, and probably saw an infected foreskin and cut it off. Higher rates of survival were likely seen as god choosing circed men.
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This hot place stuff is oft repeated and I've never heard any evidence for it. First of all, Jewish circ cut the very tip of the foreskin ONLY. Today's circ cut's 1/2 the penis skin so it was COMPLETELY different.
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Bam http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/immerman2/ … and the Australasian College of Physicians’s statement on it. I’m sure there’s a multitude of reasons for it over the years but I’m pretty convinced that’s why it started and can tell you why later.
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ZERO anthropological evidence for this, in cultures that also believed that bad fortune came from demons, not germs.
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There is evidence that rabbis have shared that the origins of Jewish circ are in pleasure reduction. Also, there are lots of cultures in the middle east and Africa that don't cut.
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