• kazaika@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Casual reminder that many religious rules were just basic Hygiene practices from prehistoric times which were later absorbed into the local beliefs.

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        16 hours 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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          13 hours 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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        17 hours 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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          16 hours 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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        17 hours ago

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

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        17 hours 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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      16 hours 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.