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Wondering if anybody knew how circumcision came about? Like when and why people thought it was a good idea?
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You try walking around in the desert for 40 years, oy vey, the sand...
Honestly, never thought about how the practice came about, wiki/google didn't have anything?
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:41 am Post subject: |
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I think Robert Price called it a blood sacrifice.
Another theory I've heard is that it's relatively sanitary for those who can't afford to always be sanitary (living in the desert and such).
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a bunch of guys with pointy rocks decided they were tired of their dicks looking like enormous cheese filled maggots.
Yes I am circumsized, no I don't how much easier you can masturbate with your "natural" and yet deformed looking penis. Choosing an uncircumsized penis is like choosing meat curtains on a vag. There I said it. |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:44 am Post subject: ehh |
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Sanitary is what ive heard forever.
Wiki isnt too informative.
Also heard it doesn't help with keeping anything clean.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:14 am Post subject: Tobris or not to bris |
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"You try walking around in the desert for 40 years, oy vey, the sand..."
CR : Actually a sound reason for circumcision.
The practice has been traditionally common amongst nomadic desert peoples with limited access to static hygiene.
More recently it's been claimed circumcision reduces the spread of AIDS. |
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| Tormentor wrote: | | Yes I am circumsized, no I don't how much easier you can masturbate with your "natural" and yet deformed looking penis. |
I don't need lube, for one.
Also, you're the one with the deformed, chopped off penis. Nice try at making up an excuse for your parents' child abuse.
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| i spent about 4 motnhs out of 12 in forests during military. i'm telling you i got serious thoughts about circumcision. |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:41 am Post subject: Re: ehh |
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| chookrooter wrote: | | More recently it's been claimed circumcision reduces the spread of AIDS. |
haha
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I'm not sure how it came about. I've heard it started in Israel as some type of disgusting offering to God and I've also heard it started as some type of ritual somewhere in Africa. Not sure which, if either, are true.
From what I've read, circumcision does nothing positive. I'm circumcised and personally I wish I wasn't. I feel my father and mother made a stupid decision. It's part of my body, why the fucking hell would I want them to chop it off? |
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don't you have to teach kids how to clean it out n stuff?
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i'd hate to have to do that every day
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If the people above ever claim to have fully read the bible properly, surely, they would have then have lied.
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Genesis 17:12 (New International Version)
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12 For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring.
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It is a covenant between God and and Israel along with a sign that you have become a Jew. In fact, it was one of the easy ways to tell who was Jewish back when taxing and persecuting the pre-Hitler era Jews was in its hay-day, before circumcision caught on with all the other tribes and Judeo-hating faded out. Since this is the Judaism forum, this is how it began in the Jewish religion. It existed before that, nonetheless. |
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| Chubz wrote: | I'm not sure how it came about. I've heard it started in Israel as some type of disgusting offering to God and I've also heard it started as some type of ritual somewhere in Africa. Not sure which, if either, are true.
From what I've read, circumcision does nothing positive. I'm circumcised and personally I wish I wasn't. I feel my father and mother made a stupid decision. It's part of my body, why the fucking hell would I want them to chop it off? |
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2007/s04/en/index.html
Except for a greater chance of not catching a bad case of HIV/AIDS.
Secondly, its no more disgusting that getting a tattoo or a piercing. So what? Its too late now, get over it. |
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| SpecterOpacus wrote: | | Tormentor wrote: | | Yes I am circumsized, no I don't how much easier you can masturbate with your "natural" and yet deformed looking penis. |
I don't need lube, for one.
Also, you're the one with the deformed, chopped off penis. Nice try at making up an excuse for your parents' child abuse. |
Hadn't seen this thread in ages but: Like things natural huh? The foreskin is like the appendix imo, absolutely useless. |
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| Dawkadoodle wrote: | | Chubz wrote: | I'm not sure how it came about. I've heard it started in Israel as some type of disgusting offering to God and I've also heard it started as some type of ritual somewhere in Africa. Not sure which, if either, are true.
From what I've read, circumcision does nothing positive. I'm circumcised and personally I wish I wasn't. I feel my father and mother made a stupid decision. It's part of my body, why the fucking hell would I want them to chop it off? |
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2007/s04/en/index.html
Except for a greater chance of not catching a bad case of HIV/AIDS.
Secondly, its no more disgusting that getting a tattoo or a piercing. So what? Its too late now, get over it. |
I don't see any peer-reviewed study there.
Edit: http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/info/HIVStatement.html
Also, tattoos and piercings tend to be chosen willingly by the party involved. Circumcision isn't. They chopped off a piece of his body with probably no goo reason as to why.
| Tormentor wrote: | | SpecterOpacus wrote: | | Tormentor wrote: | | Yes I am circumsized, no I don't how much easier you can masturbate with your "natural" and yet deformed looking penis. |
I don't need lube, for one.
Also, you're the one with the deformed, chopped off penis. Nice try at making up an excuse for your parents' child abuse. |
Hadn't seen this thread in ages but: Like things natural huh? The foreskin is like the appendix imo, absolutely useless. |
The foreskin is there to protect the head from damage. Circumsized penises also show that the head is more numb then when the penis isn't circumsized. I don't have the reference for that on hand, though.
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