Lol people in the UK can't even clean their arse properly, nevermind their pvt part's. It's quite obvious as there is no jug's or waterpipe's to clean yourself with water in public place's. Then you wonder why you guy's have skid mark's on your y-front's.
I'm very hygienic
It is now a social norm in the USA, but how did it come about? Did people just give it a try to see what would happen and discover that it made you less likely to contract syphilis, or was it originally introduced for religious reasons and has just worked its way into the culture for reasons nobody can quite remember?
In the United States circumcision emerged at the same time as in Britain and for much the same reasons: hostility to masturbation, delusions about congenital phimosis, fear of diseases like syphilis and cancer. But it got its biggest boosts from the two world wars and from the medicalisation of childbirth. The importance of both the obstetricians/gynecologists and the the military in the promotion of circumcision in the USA cannot be overestimated.
Not sure how accurate this is, but it makes sense. It wouldn't be the only cultural artefact from religion. It reminds me of the story about the monkeys in the cage.
01: Put some monkeys in a cage with a ladder in the middle.
02: At the top of the ladders put some bananas.
03: When a monkey goes for the bananas hose it down with water until all of the monkeys learn not to go for the bananas.
04: Replace half the monkeys.
05: When a new monkey goes for the bananas hose it down AND punish the bystanders by hosing them down too.
06: When they associate a hosing with ANY monkey going for the bananas replace one of the monkeys.
07: When the new monkey goes for the bananas the other monkeys will beat it up to prevent themselves getting hosed.
08: Replace another monkey, it will experience the same reaction. Importantly the previous new monkey will join in with the beating.
09: Repeat until all of the monkeys have been replaced.
Result: Whenever a monkey goes for the bananas the others will beat the shit out of it, but none of them will know why - that's just the way we do things around these parts.
I wonder if this was a real experiment or just a thought experiment?
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