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[–] ultrahamster64 47 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Americans are weird as fuck over cutting off bits of flesh from your cock. Psychotic behaviour, particularly when they are mutilating children with no say in the matter. Objectively insane.

[–] thermal_shock 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

Don't forget the rabbi sucks the blood off the penis with his mouth! I think it's only certain ones, not all, but fuck me it's disgusting and cruel .

https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/safe-bris.page

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That’s an orthodox Jewish thing, actually. Circumcision still happens in the US, and for Christians but it’s usually done at the hospital.

[–] thermal_shock 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Correct. I couldn't think of the name, but generally in the hospital and they just ask at birth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Cool cool, yeah.

And just to be 100% clear here, the blood sucking thing–to my understanding–is not even close to a common practice among Jewish folks. We’re taking only orthodox and possibly even only ultra-orthodox.

Oh, and you might have been looking for the word “rabbi”.

[–] Dasus 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, and you might have been looking for the word “rabbi”.

It's actually "mohel", but I'd assume (without any reason) that all or most mohels are rabbis I guess, but there's also mohelets, female mohels, and those probably aren't rabbis so. Some overlap probably between "mohel" and "rabbi", but different things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago
[–] thermal_shock 1 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, ive been up too long, can't think straight

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Religious people often are. Dogma trumps reason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Isn’t that only a jewish thing ?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Not at all. About 3% of US males are Jewish, but around 80% of US males are circumcised. It's just societally accepted mutilation. The origins have a lot to do with puritanical attitudes toward sex, probably historically influenced by religion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

It's wild, it's a normal thing to mutilate your male childrens genitals in the U.S.

After the skin is cut away the sensitive glans is exposed to air and constant abrasion from clothing. It keratinizes and forms a thick, hardened layer and loses sensitivity, it's barbaric.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's uncircumcised and she hates foreskin.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

He’s uncircumcised

Which is the norm outside, say, the Middle East and some parts of the US.

[–] surewhynotlem 7 points 23 hours ago

Most of the US sadly. It's weird to cut on kids.

[–] fartsparkles 60 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Cosmetic surgery on the genitals of newborns unable to consent.