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BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 days agoRealistically, 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 3 days 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.