*** >>Removing the male foreskin does a great deal to reduce transmission of STDs.<<
Nothing that soap and water couldnt do. ***
Yup, and soap and water was an every day convenience available to wandering Desert tribesmen (which the Jews were at that point).
Nothing quite like a shower with a bar of soap and a clean, Egyptian cotton towel to freshen up before sex, and those Jews wandering in the desert knew it and enjoyed it every day.
Or perhaps not?
If not, then the rite of circumcision was based on a sound medical premise.
Female genital mutilation resulted in very unsanitary conditions for the mutilated female. Making the Muslim mutilations a life long torture, rather than merely a one time “Pain in the A$$(well, a pain nearby, anyway) - the trapped urine and menses causes odors, infections, ad nauseam.
There is a reason Muslims consider women to be unclean. After a Muslim female is genitally mutilated, she IS UNCLEAN!
Without multiple baths every day, she can’t help developing a rank smell.
Female genital mutilation is the nastiest form of self fulfilling prophecy imaginable in that Muslim females are genitally mutilated, which causes odors and diseases - then they are considered unclean because of the odors and diseases caused by the genital mutilation done to them by a fellow Koranimal.
Extirpate Islam.
Is the article about ancient times or modern times?