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Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 109
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The purpose of genital mutilation in the unfree United States, today, no longer bears any religious connotation, however, its origins are wholly Christian in nature. During the Victorian Era fundamentalist Christians possessed an abhorent fear of all things sexual and, as such, partook of genital mutilation in desperate hopes to prevent their adolescent boys from sexually maturing. This is how the practice began un the United States, and though few cling to these backwards ancient Victorian beliefs, the practice, itself, remains. Maybe it is done today for the purpose of making money, I don't know. I'm just talking about the origins and how it all got started in the U.S. in the first place.
It's not a practice in Europe except for Muslim and Jewish minorities, nor is it a practice for the European Christians. But that isn't my point. All I'm saying is that the beginning of genital mutilation in the United States began from fundamentalist Christians in the Victorian era. Christians who, by the very defition of the word, were psychopaths.
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