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[–] ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 80 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn’t that only a jewish thing ?

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 15 points 1 month 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.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn, I didn’t know that

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks 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.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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

[–] TheColonel@reddthat.com 10 points 1 month 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@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] TheColonel@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 talking only orthodox and possibly even only ultra-orthodox.

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

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks 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.

[–] TheColonel@reddthat.com 1 points 4 weeks ago
[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

Religious people often are. Dogma trumps reason.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He's uncircumcised and she hates foreskin.

[–] Peter1986C@lemmings.world 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

He’s uncircumcised

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

[–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] TheKingBombOmbKiller@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Cosmetic surgery on the genitals of newborns unable to consent.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

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