pokjbv: All good replies so far, thanks for the levity Grandpa, you can always be counted upon to keep it light! The campaign of Mr. Kellog was real, he established many fad cures for many things. I wonder how he expected to end perversion though when his biggest peeve was an unclean colon, he advocated and administered, even built what we would call spas, just for enemas, sounds like an invitation to erection to me.
History is full of such oddities that are often swept under the rug for convenience or out of sheer embarrassement, but the argument that circumcision is strictly a jewish import that arrived in caucasion Europe with christianity is not correct. Gentiles were never held to jewish standards of purity, thus we need not consume kosher goods. If so we would not see pagan ritual incorporated into western Christianity, no Christmas trees. We never had to be circumcised either, and it was very rarely performed till Victorian England. Even then it did not catch on well throughout Europe, and was soon abandoned. Only in the USA did it really become widespread, nearly universal. Austrailia also seems to have peaked at about 50%, but the practice is in swift decline everywhere.
I stand by my earlier assertion that it was and is an economic phenomenon that amounts to greed in the medical world. It is no accident that both germs and antiseptic practices were both discovered in Victorian times; prior to these discoveries circumcision meant death from infection in a significant number of boys who were too young to have well developed immune systems. This is why cultures, like the Jewish that circumcise either gender wait till puberty to perform them, higher survival rates owing to intact immunity. The discovery of antiseptics and especially antibiotics really gave a huge boost to the practice here.
As far as Victorian motive goes, circumcision was a symbol of cutting off the male parts, his sexuality, and the practice of that goes on every day in a million ways with America leading the pack, especially in advertising. If they could get away with it they would just lop off the entire package at birth and turn us all into replicas of little plastic Ken dolls, but reproduction is also an economic necessity. Well, unless those babies really are clones, watch out if they are, it will mean the end of sex, since sex will have outlived it's last utility.
I also believe that this is the reason big penises pose such a threat to the "establishment." A ken doll is masculine yet with no genitals, and the smaller a dick is the more acceptible it is, ideally when clothed you should show no hint of sex organs, and some dress codes require this - using text to the effect that good taste will always take precedence. I do not know about the rest of you but I am not playing that game anymore, and if I could find and afford a reasonable restoration of my skin I would do it. ;D
