Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:42:38 AM No.17859879
As far as we can tell, circumcision (of any variety) began in Ancient Egypt as a way to mark and humiliate slaves. This makes sense. It is, according to nearly the entire educated planet outside of America, to be entirely harmful and without benefit.
But in many places, it has become a cultural phenomena. A point of pride and identity. Something that must be done. This is despite the fact that it is wholly against a man’s own self-interest. It does not benefit him in anyway, and it actively reduces his life experience. So how did this take off? Why did it last so long? Why did men, the organizers of society, not decide collectively to simply stop (I am aware they have in many places, but many places have not).
There really is no comparable in human history.
>Footbinding
A cultural norm instituted by men in a patriarchal society against women. Footbinding did not negatively affect men, who held the institutional power. Women could bitch and moan about footbinding, but it would not change the outcome.
>Chinese Eunuchs
Being a Eunuch could earn a commoner a place among the nobility with handsome pay and power. Families would make their sons eunuchs in the hope that he would bring the entire family out of poverty, at the expense of his fertility (just have another son). There was a material benefit.
>Castratos
Same reasoning as Eunuchs
>Circumcision of slaves
Not comparable to today because the well-being of the slave was of no concern. It did not matter.
>Tattoos and other cosmetic markings of tribe or nationality
Irrelevant if there is no function or life experience lost. A tattoo or scar is of much less sacrifice than the skin off your cock.
Nowadays, fathers make a conscious effort to make their son’s cock worse, to no benefit to the father or the son. You can argue it was a result of religion or tribal belonging, but it was those very same men that decided it be so. They made the rules of the game, being the patriarch, unlike women and footbinding.
But in many places, it has become a cultural phenomena. A point of pride and identity. Something that must be done. This is despite the fact that it is wholly against a man’s own self-interest. It does not benefit him in anyway, and it actively reduces his life experience. So how did this take off? Why did it last so long? Why did men, the organizers of society, not decide collectively to simply stop (I am aware they have in many places, but many places have not).
There really is no comparable in human history.
>Footbinding
A cultural norm instituted by men in a patriarchal society against women. Footbinding did not negatively affect men, who held the institutional power. Women could bitch and moan about footbinding, but it would not change the outcome.
>Chinese Eunuchs
Being a Eunuch could earn a commoner a place among the nobility with handsome pay and power. Families would make their sons eunuchs in the hope that he would bring the entire family out of poverty, at the expense of his fertility (just have another son). There was a material benefit.
>Castratos
Same reasoning as Eunuchs
>Circumcision of slaves
Not comparable to today because the well-being of the slave was of no concern. It did not matter.
>Tattoos and other cosmetic markings of tribe or nationality
Irrelevant if there is no function or life experience lost. A tattoo or scar is of much less sacrifice than the skin off your cock.
Nowadays, fathers make a conscious effort to make their son’s cock worse, to no benefit to the father or the son. You can argue it was a result of religion or tribal belonging, but it was those very same men that decided it be so. They made the rules of the game, being the patriarch, unlike women and footbinding.
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