Frank McGinness
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Re: “A Strange and Barbaric Practice”
Below is what is taught in one class to expecting parents. It is very long as it is detailed. Too long to post here. My apologies to those who are not on facebook. Also please look over my other fb notes too. https://www.facebook.com/frank.mcginness.7/notes
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"In case someone will certainly circumcise. On to circumcision." - By Kellinjoe Crawford
August 6, 2014 at 8:40pm
The Foreskin & Circumcision,
Facts You Need to Know to Make an Informed Decision
We can't fully understand circumcision without understanding what the foreskin is and the functions it serves. The foreskin is the primary erogenous tissue that is necessary for normal sexual function, it is present in all mammals and has been for at least 65 million years or more. It is specialized tissue composed of skin, mucosa, nerves, blood vessels, and muscle fibers. It has over 16 known functions including protecting the glans of the penis, providing a gliding mechanism during sexual intercourse or masturbation which prevents chaffing and micro tears, creates pleasurable nerve response for both parties, and maintains lubrication within the vagina rather than pulling it out with each stroke, as well as provides an immunological defense system. It also contains over 20,000 specialized nerve endings that aid in sexual sensitivity as well as sexual control, compared to the 8,000 contained in the clitoris. Circumcised males experience significantly more premature ejaculation in early sexual activity and 4.5 times more erectile dysfunction later in life than their intact peers, because the physiologic nerve response is missing and the unprotected glans becomes Keratinized/calloused due to unnatural externalization over time. The changes that occur are similar...
Re: “A Strange and Barbaric Practice”
Jewish Circumcision (some history) - Moses Maimonides, Dr. Leonard Glick
Rabbi Moses Maimonides:
Over 800 years ago Moses Maimonides tells the harms of circumcision, also known as the "Rambam", was a medieval Jewish rabbi, physician and philosopher. "...the wish to bring about a decrease in sexual intercourse and a weakening of the organ in question, so that this activity be diminished and the organ be in as quiet a state as possible." & "The fact that circumcision weakens the faculty of sexual excitement and sometimes perhaps diminishes the pleasure is indubitable. For if at birth this member has been made to bleed and has had its covering taken away from it, it must indubitably be weakened. The Sages, may their memory be blessed, have explicitly stated: It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision."
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Glick's Marked in Your Flesh:
Interesting read from Glick's "Marked in Your Flesh": "that the Lord's covenant and his two definitive promises (prodigious reproduction success and a lavish land grant (all of Canaanite land) appears first in Genesis 15, an earlier J text but with one crucial difference, there is no mention of circumcision." "To seal this covenant the only requirement is that Abram offer several sacrificial animals- a heifer, goat, ram, dove, and one other bird. Here we find no mention of circumcision, no change of name, no mention of Isaac or Ishmael." "Like a number of their neighbors, the ancient Israelites had practiced circumcision, but not as a mandatory rite and probable seldom on infants; nor did they associate it with the idea of covenant."
It was the Judean Priests who wrote Genesis 17 (P text) 13 centuries after Abraham's putative lifetime that called for male circumcision of infants. A initiation rite not so much for the infant but of the father who must circumcise his son himself for he is cognizant of the event whereas the infant is not. These type of circ.s were the cutting off the acroposthion (the part that hangs past the glans). No damage of tearing the foreskin from the glans (thus results scarring from the cut up to the tip of the glans) and no amputating the part covering the glans. The radical circ., also medically known as penile reduction, as we do happens centuries later. The Torah says not to mark the body, the original Covenant concurs with the earliest Judea. Covenant means to cut a contract by halving animals lengthwise as was typical of marriages between tribes and other important affairs. These halved animals would be laid half on the left and the other half on the right. Then the contracting parties would walk together in the blood of the path between. This is to signify may this happen to me should I break this contract, that I may be halved lengthwise also.
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"The ancient Hebrews followed the more primitive custom of undergoing circumcision at the age of puberty, the circumcision of young warriors at that age signifying the consecration of their manhood to their task as men of the covenant battling against the uncircumcised inhabitants (see Reizenstein, l.c.). After the settlement of the Israelites in Palestine, the rite was transferred to the eighth day after birth." http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4391-circumcision