A good book to read up on the history of circumcision and its expansion to the West is “Marked in Your Flesh” by anthropologist Leanard Glick.
Circumcision began in America, and in the rest of the English-speaking world in the Victorian Era, when it was introduced as a way to stop masturbation.
Circumcision didn’t stop masturbation, and “researchers” have been looking for “medical benefits” for it since… Maybe, after a century, they finally found something with the STD thing.
Why even look for benefits. Nothing wrong with a little ritual sexual mutilation. yahweh needs his tasty piece of penis flesh. Yumm
