THE MARK OF THE JEW
I’m not Jewish or Muslim and think most parents in the UK don’t for a moment consider circumcising their sons. When you know it is not medically necessary, that it is painful and that there is no other reason to, why would you?
I was living in Istanbul when my husband and I learned I was pregnant with a boy. I had already become aware of male circumcision being routine in Turkey, grounded both in religious tradition and the widespread belief that it is more hygienic and protects against sexually transmitted diseases.
In the sweltering heat of Istanbul, our son would often toddle naked around our home. I overheard my husband joking with him one day about his future circumcision. “Let’s cut it, won’t that be fun!” Disturbed, and seeing our son disturbed, too, I immediately objected. I also realised children must be psychologically prepared by their adult carers to undergo circumcision.
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One of my partner’s biggest selling points in favor of circumcision was so that our boys would "look like him," but frankly, their dad’s not strutting around them naked all that often. They might get a glimpse now and then when he’s coming in or out of the shower, but that thing’s like a snake: it retreats to the safety of the bush when it senses it’s being watched. The only other penis they have to compare their own to is each other's, and even though they’re both circumcised, they look nothing alike below the belt. It seems weird to me now that we thrust this idea of adult conformity on male infants and not females. Not all females have the same sized breasts (especially at birth). And even though some women are cruel to each other for having a chest that’s too big or too small or if their breasts aren’t the same size, the overall message we send to women and young girls is to celebrate their bodies as is.
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Opinions differ on the exact extent of milah – and of course the procedure would vary from case to case – but periah is impossible to reconcile with biblical texts and other Jewish texts. Ancient, medieval, and modern Jewish scholarship, including Rabbis, say the commandment of periah was not given to Abraham. For example, see “Brit Milah: A Study of Change in Custom” by Jewish scholar Nissan Rubin.
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healthyfamiliesforgod.com
The foreskin is a great source of collagen, which is why the beauty industry has taken advantage of it and is potentially one reason why so much is amputated today. They purchase it and use it in their anti-wrinkle/anti-aging creams. More info about that here: “Human Foreskins Are Big Business for Cosmetics.”
Coriell Institute for Medical Research has neonatal foreskins for sale for $250 if anyone would like to purchase them:
ccr.coriell.org
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