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IIRC in America it was done as a supposed way to curb masterbation, and as time went on it instead stuck because nobody ever questioned it much.
People today still try to defend it with alleged hygiene and health benifits, mainly because people rarely take "your penis has somthing wrong with it" very well regardless of how kindly you phrase it.
It was connected to hygiene as infected foreskins were a common problem in WWI then it became a thing of matching the parents.
Turning to anyone and telling them they are defective/deformed is the height of classlessness. You shouldn't be surprised when acting like an asshole isn't well received.
Wow. This is the first I've ever heard of WW1 being referenced as a hygiene standard. Do you have a source for that?
The world war is called the world war because a ton of countries were involved and the US were the only country that had problems with foreskins?
I don't think this is true
No the USA is the only one that reacted by widely recommending circumcision. Others had this problem and confronted it differently.
Yeah... opponents of the practice haven't exactly chosen the best phrasing with, "your penis has been mutilated!" either.
So I can understand the stubbornness.
They're not wrong.
Merriam-Webster
mutilate
verb
transitive verb
1 : to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect
2 : to cut off or cause severe damage to a limb or essential part of
Idk I think it’s rather perfect just so.
But it has been mutilated.