The Oldest Circumcision in the World {2400 BC, Egypt}

JTA.org ^ | 2016 | Zachary Solomon

[Cronos]

unknown. There is no mention of it in Old Kingdom times

Historically, the first mention of male and female circumcision appears in the writings by the Greek geographer Strabo, who visited Egypt around 25 B.C.

“One of the customs most zealously observed among the Egyptians is this, that they rear every child that is born, and circumcise the males, and excise the females,” Strabo wrote in his 17-volume work Geographica.

A Greek papyrus dated 163 B.C. mentioned the operation being performed on girls in Memphis, Egypt, at the age when they received their dowries, supporting theories that FGM originated as a form of initiation of young women.

Other writers later explained that the procedure was carried for less ritualistic reasons.

According to the 6th century A.D. Greek physician Aetios, the cutting was necessary in the presence of an overly large clitoris.

[MisterArtery]

The leper upon leaving the brothel, “Keep the tip!”

[Jyotishi]

Thanks for the research. FGM appears to be popular among Muslims. Isn’t it illegal in the U.S.?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the pings!

Histories, book II: Euterpe
by Herodotus
translation by George Rawlinson
transcription by Daniel C. Stevenson

...the Egyptians said that they believed the Colchians to be descended from the army of Sesostris. My own conjectures... further and more especially, on the circumstance that the Colchians, the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians, are the only nations who have practised circumcision from the earliest times... the Syrians who dwell about the rivers Thermodon and Parthenius, as well as their neighbours the Macronians, say that they have recently adopted it from the Colchians... I will add a further proof to the identity of the Egyptians and the Colchians. These two nations weave their linen in exactly the same way, and this is a way entirely unknown to the rest of the world; they also in their whole mode of life and in their language resemble one another. The Colchian linen is called by the Greeks Sardinian, while that which comes from Egypt is known as Egyptian.

[Red Badger]

We just send you tips...................

[SunkenCiv]

..."if you whisper some dirty talk, the wallet will turn into a suitcase..."

[Red Badger]

or in some instances a briefcase..................

[damper99]

Circumcision is a mark of great optimism...cutting an inch off before you know what the final length will be.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“cutting an inch” — some surgeon you’d make!!

[damper99]

I was using the “inch” that is used for ***k measuring.

[Max in Utah]

OMG, all this time I thought I was eating squid!

[wildbill]

tHE unkindest cut of all as an adult I imagine.

[SunkenCiv]

[singing] A blessing on your head, mazel tov, mazel tov...