Why has circumcision as a tradition developed independently in multiple ancient cultures and persisted for thousands of years, historically speaking?
>>18421037It's a relatively nonlethal but undeniably honest signal of tribal loyalty.
>>18421037It's a form of tribal scarification, usually to indicate masculinity, adulthood, or just tribal identity. Guys think about their cocks all the time so not surprising they'd get the idea to do something with it to establish some kind of symbolic meaning.Good to note that most practices of circumcision worldwide weren't tight though, usually just the tip of the skin or a dorsal slit. Tight circumcisions, that we know to be specifically tight, come entirely from Jewish influence. Jews living among Greeks would stretch their remaining foreskin to restore it in order to fit in socially and access gymnasiums, so rabbis began requiring tight circumcisions to prevent this from being done.
>>18421037I don't believe non jews practiced it tbqh
>>18421071Egyptians did it before them
>>18421037None of those cultures where European all of them where desert creeps . Zeus or Odin never had comendments about cutting your smekel.
