>>149558663It's an American thing invented by Kellogg and his pals. They explicitly promoted circumcision as a deterrent to masturbation, which they believed caused mental illness, epilepsy, and other disorders.
Kellogg also advised it be done without anesthesia to maximize the trauma and โcurb the urgeโ (for masturbation)
โThe operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind.โ
It's literally just ritual genital mutilation based in "use leeches to suck bad blood out to cure your headaches" tier pseudoscience and the rest of the world laughs at you for doing it.