Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules

kazaika@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The whole “hygiene” and circumcision is a myth and a lie. Your foreskin has no bearing on your ability to wash your dick

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The whole “hygiene” and circumcision is a myth and a lie.

    It’s not like there microbiology science existed thousands of years ago. It may have been a hygiene practice because people thought it was helpful. Bloodletting is BS as well and people thought it helped drain the body’s poisons.

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    • Akuchimoya@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Bloodletting is therapeutic… for some very specific conditions. For example, hemochromatosis, where the body has too much iron, and there has been some preliminary study that blood donations are a way to reduce the amount of PFAS in blood.

      But everyone has PFAS in their blood; not every male has (beyond normal) phimosis.

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      • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        From the context it’s 100% clear that I meant the medieval practice, before modern science.

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  • rasbora@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Your foreskin has no bearing on your ability to wash your dick

    I imagine the whole circumcision thing makes sense when you’re wandering the desert for years and there’s not a whole lot of water around, but other than that, yeah.

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I imagine the whole circumcision thing makes sense when you’re wandering the desert for years and there’s not a whole lot of water around, but other than that, yeah.

      So blowjobs 3 times a day?

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  • tauren@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not so long ago people would go weeks without washing their bodies, let alone in prehistoric times.

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  • Deepus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It does if it’s tight. I couldn’t wash it due to the extreme tightness. I don’t agree with doing it for religious reasons, just saying your argument there is not without holes.

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• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You are quite right. There is a tribe in East Africa which makes a hole on their lower lip and place a huge disk into it. It is theorised that the practice started to prevent lockjaw disease that may have been prevalent in the area eons ago. I am not sure how this prevents lockjaw but maybe for them it works.

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