Posted by:
cludgie
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Date: March 18, 2018 06:15PM
Doctors always used to say that an infant that young "doesn't experience pain." Then you have the boy circumcised--which the doctor does by clamping the foreskin and scraping it off--and he screams in pain for days. It turns out that the pain an infant experiences when circumcised is the same as if you had scraped off his eyelid.
The main reason that so many American males are now circumcised is, believe it or not, associated with the Pacific Theatre in WWII. The US military believed that fighting men would get terrible and debilitating diseases of the penis if they fought in the jungles. Of course, they should have looked at the fact that the Japanese male population are totally uncircumcised, and they were doing splendidly in the jungle. Once so many men were circumcised, believing it was better, they wanted their boys to not only be "cleaner" in the parents' eyes, but look more like their dad. It became a thing. So many boys got circumcised that it began to look weird to see an uncircumcised man.
An LDS friend of mine was in a circumcision ward in WWII. After the men got circumcised, no one could stand or walk, and were in pain for two weeks, screaming bloody murder when they urinated. He said his penis swelled way up for a long time.
Remember this from Genesis 34. The back story is that Dinah, Jacob's daughter, was raped by Shechem. Scechem's father told Jacob and his sons that Shechem longed for Dinah, and asked Jacob to grant their marriage. But the sons answered:
"We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us. But on this condition we will consent to you: If you will become as we are, if every male of you is circumcised, then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us; and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. But if you will not heed us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and be gone.”
So all the men idiotically agreed to be circumcised, following which, the sons of Jacob pulled this stunt:
"And it came to pass on the third day, when [the men] were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males."
See? It hurts.