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Fear of Circumcision

Rachel Rugelach

Rachel Rugelach

Shalom, y'all.
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Onasander said:
I've heard of liberal jews of some sect just pricking it to draw blood out by sucking on the foreskin (going off memory, was fairly repulsed).
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Jews do the willy-pricking thing for male converts to Judaism who have been previously circumcised. It's a symbolic circumcision where no actual circumcision is necessary.

The sucking on the wound of a newly circumcised baby boy is a very old tradition/custom that has been rapidly going out of style -- especially now that we know that infectious diseases can be transmitted to an infant in this way. In the past, the belief was that the practice of drawing blood away from the wound prevented infection. We live and we learn. All of us live and learn -- not just Jews. :cool:

Onasander said:
Basically I like reading Jewish history but my equipment doesn't match up. It causes alot of duress. I was actually disappointed when I took my DNA test and saw no Jewish ancestry.
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Well, nobody's perfect. :)
 
exchemist

exchemist

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Evangelicalhumanist said:
And pinking shears! :eek:
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I had to look those up. I suppose you could use them to go for a decorative effect like that on Romanesque archways:

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Saint Frankenstein

Saint Frankenstein

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Onasander said:
I think the groups with the biggest phobia aren't around jews but marrying into Muslim communities.... I've heard of violent chases and insistence they get the chop. Hence my mention of Indonesia. I've heard of liberal jews of some sect just pricking it to draw blood out by sucking on the foreskin (going off memory, was fairly repulsed).

Basically I like reading Jewish history but my equipment doesn't match up. It causes alot of duress. I was actually disappointed when I took my DNA test and saw no Jewish ancestry.
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Why don't you just be proud to be who you are instead of wishing you were a different ethnicity? Jews aren't better or more special than any other group. No reason to envy them. Normal ("uncut") penises aren't rare in the US. There's even some out here in the Midwest and in the South. Circ rates are dropping, especially with immigration changing demographics. Latinos don't practice it and now they're the majority in California and Texas.
 
Onasander

Onasander

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Saint Frankenstein said:
Why don't you just be proud to be who you are instead of wishing you were a different ethnicity? Jews aren't better or more special than any other group. No reason to envy them. Normal ("uncut") penises aren't rare in the US. There's even some out here in the Midwest and in the South. Circ rates are dropping, especially with immigration changing demographics. Latinos don't practice it and now they're the majority in California and Texas.
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I'm generic frontier descent, mostly British and a quarter German. Only exotic I have is some 2% Lebanese- and have no clue how that made it to the frontier in the early 1800s. I'm pretty common and unashamed. Circumcision is so common here it ISN'T tied to a ethnicity, but in a few it is damn near universal. Jews and Muslims.

I got called out a few times as a kid for having a weird skin flap. It's not a ethnic issue, it's a social stigma. Not a stigmata, as a spider didn't bite me, just a stigma. Everyone is proclaiming how they would never do it to their kid, mutilation etc... but when you find yourself in a severe minority it hurts. And the need to fit in is high. But at the same time like.... no chance am I cutting it off voluntarily now at this age (40). Wish it happened as a infant. Why my mother had to suddenly be idealistic once in her life with this one is beyond me.
 
Saint Frankenstein

Saint Frankenstein

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Onasander said:
I'm generic frontier descent, mostly British and a quarter German. Only exotic I have is some 2% Lebanese- and have no clue how that made it to the frontier in the early 1800s. I'm pretty common and unashamed. Circumcision is so common here it ISN'T tied to a ethnicity, but in a few it is damn near universal. Jews and Muslims.

I got called out a few times as a kid for having a weird skin flap. It's not a ethnic issue, it's a social stigma. Not a stigmata, as a spider didn't bite me, just a stigma. Everyone is proclaiming how they would never do it to their kid, mutilation etc... but when you find yourself in a severe minority it hurts. And the need to fit in is high. But at the same time like.... no chance am I cutting it off voluntarily now at this age (40). Wish it happened as a infant. Why my mother had to suddenly be idealistic once in her life with this one is beyond me.
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Those people are ******** and have no business bullying you about your body. I'm a member of multiple minorities and was bullied over various things, so I know how it feels. Accept your body and embrace it. The problem is stupid people, not you. They'll find any reason to bully and insult. You should be thankful to your mother for leaving your genitals alone. You could've ended up botched or with a bunch of unsightly scar tissue. Best to leave a baby's genitals alone.
 
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Little Dragon

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Mock Turtle said:
Might be true, according to this:

United Kingdom: Circumcision Incidence

An index page of material on the incidence of male circumcisions in Britain.
cirp.org

Johnson et al. surveyed 7990 British men (1990) and found that 21.9 percent of all men in the survey were circumcised.

And this:

(20.7%)
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Maybe within Islamic and Jewish and other communities, as I had previously discounted. Outside of them, I think not. If I am wrong, then that is disconcerting as the unnecessary mutilation of children is not something I approve of particularly. A bad thing that ought not to be permitted. An abhorrent archaic practice, in my view.
 
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Little Dragon

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Onasander said:
I'm generic frontier descent, mostly British and a quarter German
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Like the majority of european descended north americans. Of course the British and Germans are closely related ethnic groups anyway.
I was born in Britain, but my parents are not British, my father is Russian and my mother is from Norway originally. I do have an English great grandmother.
 
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