The first time an anti circumcision video isn’t some MRA going “feminism cut my pp 😭”
I’m not the person who walked into a convo that was objectively talking about Western non consensual genital cutting, saw the posters venting about their victimhood, and decided to mention the tiny proportion of non patriarchal humans that also do it. If you have any empathy for what we went through, then you wouldn’t “um akshually” in this discussion.
I don’t think you’re able to think clearly
Kinda wierdly ableist
Why are you blaming rich white men? Seems more of a puritan/Jewish problem, regardless of class
By the outbreak of World War I the circumcised penis was the mark of the English elite
At the height of its incidence circumcision affected only 30 to 40 percent of British boys, but this was not distributed evenly through the population: while two-thirds or more of public school boys were cut, the proportion in the working class or living in rural areas was much lower
Frank Mort suggests that Victorian anxieties particularly centered on dirt and disordered hierarchies of social power, while Joanne Townsend has commented that the Victorian understanding of hygiene, disease,and public health was a response to the "disorder brought by the Industrial Revolution. Public health movements were a way of gaining control over the physical environment and the bodies of … the working class.‘’
A stronger case can be made that the sanitarians were more interested in disciplining the bodies of the middle and managerial class than those of the masses they were expected to direct
-The Demnonization of’ the Foreskin & the Rise of Circumcision in Britain (Robert Darby)
In the West, circumcision was driven by the upper class. I can find more evidence, but I’m a bit lazy atm.
lazy cut/paste of a pdf
Stolberg attributes the success of the campaign to demonize mastur- bation to several political, ideological, and economic motives, including religious concern with "uncleanness;’ bourgeois fears about self-control, and the “financial interests of the London venereal trade.‘’ He also shows how the symptoms blamed on masturbation addressed contemporary anxieties about virility, gender identity, and selfhood and were consis- tent with prevailing understandings of bodily function and disease cau- sation. Stolberg particularly mentions the role of medical entrepreneurs eager to increase the sale of their goods and services, and notes that mas- turbation gave the medical profession” a welcome opportunity to demon- strate the importance of medical expertise for promoting individual as well as social welfare.‘’
