The first time an anti circumcision video isn’t some MRA going “feminism cut my pp 😭”

  • ButtBidet [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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    By the outbreak of World War I the circumcised penis was the mark of the English elite

    At the height of its incidence circumcision affected only 30 to 40 percent of British boys, but this was not distributed evenly through the population: while two-thirds or more of public school boys were cut, the proportion in the working class or living in rural areas was much lower

    Frank Mort suggests that Victorian anxieties particularly centered on dirt and disordered hierarchies of social power, while Joanne Townsend has commented that the Victorian understanding of hygiene, disease,and public health was a response to the "disorder brought by the Industrial Revolution. Public health movements were a way of gaining control over the physical environment and the bodies of … the working class.‘’

    A stronger case can be made that the sanitarians were more interested in disciplining the bodies of the middle and managerial class than those of the masses they were expected to direct

    -The Demnonization of’ the Foreskin & the Rise of Circumcision in Britain (Robert Darby)

    In the West, circumcision was driven by the upper class. I can find more evidence, but I’m a bit lazy atm.