• But_my_mom_says_im_cool
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    1 year ago

    The whole “hygiene” and circumcision is a myth and a lie. Your foreskin has no bearing on your ability to wash your dick

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      1 year ago

      The whole “hygiene” and circumcision is a myth and a lie.

      It’s not like there microbiology science existed thousands of years ago. It may have been a hygiene practice because people thought it was helpful. Bloodletting is BS as well and people thought it helped drain the body’s poisons.

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        Bloodletting is therapeutic… for some very specific conditions. For example, hemochromatosis, where the body has too much iron, and there has been some preliminary study that blood donations are a way to reduce the amount of PFAS in blood.

        But everyone has PFAS in their blood; not every male has (beyond normal) phimosis.

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          1 year ago

          From the context it’s 100% clear that I meant the medieval practice, before modern science.

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      1 year ago

      Not so long ago people would go weeks without washing their bodies, let alone in prehistoric times.

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        I imagine the whole circumcision thing makes sense when you’re wandering the desert for years and there’s not a whole lot of water around, but other than that, yeah.

        So blowjobs 3 times a day?

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      1 year ago

      It does if it’s tight. I couldn’t wash it due to the extreme tightness. I don’t agree with doing it for religious reasons, just saying your argument there is not without holes.