Like quite a few early religious rules I will never be convinced that it wasn’t just a bunch of dumbass men couldn’t be arsed to keep their junk clean and got infections thus new ritual was born to eliminate the problem.
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BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 days agoWhy? When did some guy say “Hey! I got an idea!” And everyone else said “Sounds great! Me next!”
I mean, I get the women going along with it, just to see how stupid men could really get, but how did men, who totally ruled the world back then, decide to go along with this?
Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
davad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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socsa@piefed.social 16 hours ago
There are actual sanitary considerations for people who don’t bathe very often.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
Realistically, this is how that conversation would go, 99% of the time:
“You might have a problem with your dick later, so let’s cut off the end of it now.”
“Uh, you can just fuck right off. I’ll take my chances.”
socsa@piefed.social 15 hours ago
My understanding is the practice started as a kind of ritual scarification for warrior tribes, and the relatively minor health benefits were incidental and discovered later. That explains why people chose to do it initially before it became a silly religious rite.