• @set_secret
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    352 years ago

    isn’t this true for a heap of non Jewish American males too?

        • @[email protected]
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          172 years ago

          I think the difference is that it is performed in the US even without religious background.

          Usually this happens because the parents would be Jewish or Muslim.

          • @LazyBane
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            262 years ago

            IIRC in America it was done as a supposed way to curb masterbation, and as time went on it instead stuck because nobody ever questioned it much.

            People today still try to defend it with alleged hygiene and health benifits, mainly because people rarely take “your penis has somthing wrong with it” very well regardless of how kindly you phrase it.

              • fknM
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                62 years ago

                Wow. This is the first I’ve ever heard of WW1 being referenced as a hygiene standard. Do you have a source for that?

              • @[email protected]
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                22 years ago

                The world war is called the world war because a ton of countries were involved and the US were the only country that had problems with foreskins?

                I don’t think this is true

              • @[email protected]
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                They’re not wrong.

                Merriam-Webster

                mutilate
                verb
                transitive verb
                1 : to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect
                2 : to cut off or cause severe damage to a limb or essential part of

                • jerry
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                  12 years ago

                  Idk I think it’s rather perfect just so.

            • @[email protected]
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              -12 years ago

              If you look at the map the predominantly Christian regions are by far at the bottom of the list with the exception of the US and Australia.

        • jordo
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          122 years ago

          That 20-80% variance makes it look as though Australia and America have the same rates of circumcision

        • KingJalopy
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          32 years ago

          Researchers like, “I ain’t tryna look at Icelandic dick tho”

          • @Ternpike
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            32 years ago

            Did you mean Greenland? Iceland looks in the 0-20% category.

            Or am I just not getting a joke…