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Updated: June 28, 2025
Here they cut off part of a child's prepuce, to secure for him divine benevolence; there, they pour water upon his head, to cleanse him of crimes, which he could not as yet have committed.
The irritation of the urine produces rawness and excoriation of the skin of the prepuce, contact with intestinal contents not in themselves very abnormal, an intractable dermatitis of the buttocks or a persistent diarrhoea and enteral catarrh.
Infibulation by a ring in the prepuce was used to prevent premature copulation, and was in time to be removed, but in some cases its function was the preservation of perpetual chastity.
It is not circumcision that makes the phallus sacred it is sacred in itself, and all procedures of savage veneration for the prepuce assume its inherent potency. +160+. Nor can circumcision be explained as an attenuated survival of human sacrifice. But this quality attaches to all blood, and the essential thing in circumcision is not the blood but the removal of the prepuce.
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