Post #712462 by christiki295 on Sat, Mar 29, 2014 2:04 PM

On 2014-03-29 11:27, Atomic Tiki Punk wrote:
"Future ritual genital cutting!" Hell no, I won't go!

GENITAL PREPARATION - PENIS
Subincision of the foreskin was practiced, and ostensibly, to prepare for this practice, the penis was blown into daily starting from birth (Handy and Pukui, 1958, p. 94; Pukui, Haertig, and Lee, 1972. p. 75). The blowing was said to loosen and balloon the foreskin and separate it from the glans, so that when the time of subincision came, the skin was quickly and easily slit. The blowing continued daily until the infant was old enough to urinate in an arch, wetting the blower, then it was done less often, perhaps three times a week until the young male was 6 or 7. 6
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The penis-blowing procedure was said to guarantee health and efficient coitus (Pukui, Haertig, and Lee, 1972, p. 75). This procedure, and the vulva treatment to be mentioned, was said to make the genitals more beautiful and to be a form of “blessings with which loving relatives desired to endow the firstborn throughout life .... What was true for the firstborn was true for subsequent children, to a lesser degree” (Handy and Pukui, 1958, p. 94).

Seems more like the traditional Jewish bris ceremony, although one does hope that wine from pineapple or passion fruit would be used to attempt to dull the pain.