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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Americans are weird as fuck over cutting off bits of flesh from your cock. Psychotic behaviour, particularly when they are mutilating children with no say in the matter. Objectively insane.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn’t that only a jewish thing ?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not at all. About 3% of US males are Jewish, but around 80% of US males are circumcised. It's just societally accepted mutilation. The origins have a lot to do with puritanical attitudes toward sex, probably historically influenced by religion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn, I didn’t know that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's wild, it's a normal thing to mutilate your male childrens genitals in the U.S.

After the skin is cut away the sensitive glans is exposed to air and constant abrasion from clothing. It keratinizes and forms a thick, hardened layer and loses sensitivity, it's barbaric.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Don't forget the rabbi sucks the blood off the penis with his mouth! I think it's only certain ones, not all, but fuck me it's disgusting and cruel .

https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/safe-bris.page

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s an orthodox Jewish thing, actually. Circumcision still happens in the US, and for Christians but it’s usually done at the hospital.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Correct. I couldn't think of the name, but generally in the hospital and they just ask at birth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Cool cool, yeah.

And just to be 100% clear here, the blood sucking thing–to my understanding–is not even close to a common practice among Jewish folks. We’re talking only orthodox and possibly even only ultra-orthodox.

Oh, and you might have been looking for the word “rabbi”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, and you might have been looking for the word “rabbi”.

It's actually "mohel", but I'd assume (without any reason) that all or most mohels are rabbis I guess, but there's also mohelets, female mohels, and those probably aren't rabbis so. Some overlap probably between "mohel" and "rabbi", but different things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, ive been up too long, can't think straight

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Religious people often are. Dogma trumps reason.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He's uncircumcised and she hates foreskin.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

He’s uncircumcised

Which is the norm outside, say, the Middle East and some parts of the US.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Cosmetic surgery on the genitals of newborns unable to consent.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Most of the US sadly. It's weird to cut on kids.