Look up “John Harvey Kellogg circumcision”. A lot of the US obsession with cutting up baby penisses is because of him and his obsession with preventing boys from masturbating.
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then_three_more@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What is it with yanks and cutting up babies dicks?
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
jali67@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
And unfortunately, many Americans don’t ever think or question anything. It just remained this way.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Wasn’t that why he invented corn flakes too?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
That dude was a freak
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
It didn’t work.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 days ago
The Kellogg in Fallout 4 is his descendant
okr765@lemmy.okr765.com 2 days ago
On Wikipedia, his supposed instigation and popularization of circumcision is listed as a common misconception. It still looks like he supported the practice at some point though
chunes@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They sell the foreskins.
Snowclone@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And you have to pay to have it removed!
Darukhnarn@feddit.org 2 days ago
I think it used to be about preventing masturbation?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Lol you’d think they would have figured out pretty quick that it didn’t work
Snowclone@lemmy.world 2 days ago
At this point it’s mostly just to match the dad.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Idk I got one because im Jewish, soon the entire thing will be cut off >:3
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Christian radicals I think.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world 2 days ago
more carry overs from judaism; so much of the bible carries over
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Religious cult nonsense is the typical reason.
philycheeze@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
And then it got so popular they decided it would be weird to stop 🙄
jali67@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
It’s cool to be stupid and promote anti intellectualism in the US