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Old 08-11-2003, 12:02 AM   #1
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Not sure where this thread is supposed to go, so I just posted it here. Isn't it weird that the OT God demands circumcision to show a person's alleigience to him? It's kinda sick and pointless, because the Egyptians performed circumcision too! I read somewhere that people use circumcision as a way to prevent masturbation, and uses all kinds of excuses, from religious to exaggerated medical reasons. How many people in this forum is circumcised anyway? I'll post a poll or something. Never posted a poll before. Well, here goes.

BTW, I'm not circumcised!
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The requirement for circumscision shows that YHWH was too incompetent to simply create people without foreskins, or otherwise to require a non-mutilating sign of faith.
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I read somewhere that people use circumcision as a way to prevent masturbation, and uses all kinds of excuses, from religious to exaggerated medical reasons.
I did a research project on circumcision last year, and from what I gather, circumcision first appeared in hunter/gatherer cultures as a kind of initiation/puberty rite. In the western world it was largely seen as barbaric, until Victorian Times, where it was used to stop kids from masturbating. Once moral interests declined, some people made up medical reasons to continue it.


"In all cases in which male children are suffering nerve tension, confirmed derangement of the digestive organs, restlessness, irritability, and other disturbances of the nervous system, even to chorea, convulsions, and paralysis, or where through nerve waste the nutritive facilities of the general system are below par and structural diseases are occurring, circumcision should be considered as among the lines of treatment to be pursued."

Charles E. Fisher, Circumcision, in A Hand-Book On the Diseases of Children and Their Homeopathic Treatment.. Chicago: Medical Century Co., 1895. p.875.


"I have repeatedly seen such cases as convulsions, contstant crying in infants, simulated hip joint diseases, backwardness in studies, enuresis, marasmus, muscular incoordination, paralysis, masturbation, neurasthenia, and even epilepsy, cured or greatly benefited by the proper performance of circumcision."

W.G.Steele, MD. "Importance of Circumcision." Medical World,Vol. 20 (1902): pp.518-519
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Old 08-11-2003, 01:08 AM   #4
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I read somewhere that people use circumcision as a way to prevent masturbation...
Heh, heh. I'm here to tell ya- it doesn't work...
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Yeah, okay, it failed on masturbation. But hey you don't have epilepsy, do you?
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Not circumsized!
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Yeah, okay, it failed on masturbation. But hey you don't have epilepsy, do you?
Hey, you're right- how could I have not seen it all this time!?! There must be a god, afterall! Praise be!
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Not sure where this thread is supposed to go, so I just posted it here.
This probably fits better at ~E~ but we'll wait and see if the mods thinks so too. BTW, I got circumcised at around 8 yrs old, I think. I posted an account of my circumcision at the Freethinkers Forum.
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Well I see the results are nip and tuck.
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I'm not circumcised, but I am told my mother had to fight tooth and nail against pressure from almost every relative and in-law she had in order to keep my foreskin attached. Everyone else [including my father] wanted me circumcised, Darwin only knows why.

When I was about 10 my father even asked me if I wanted to be circumcised. It was one of the weirdest conversations I've ever had with him.
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