HEY. The whole desert/sand-in-the-foreskin thing is a too-often-repeated myth. Even some doctors can repeat such junk.

During the 40 years after the exodus, Moses' followers STOPPED circumcising while wandering the desert.

Nothing PROTECTS the urinary meatus like a foreskin. To keep hygienic while camping or otherwise without showers, just urinate. If you have something scratching at the inside of the foreskin you can lightly grip the tip of the skin tube as you urinate and let the sterile urine balloon the foreskin out, and release it with a forceful gush.

The previous paragraph is why I believe circumcision arose in Judaism and Islam. Both have strong taboos about avoiding contact with bodily fluids. If you can't make your foreskin balloon as needed (for fear of touching some urine), you just MIGHT get an undue infection or inflammation once in a while.

Nearly ALL the soldiers in the civil war (and every earlier US war) were intact. Show me one legit citiation about rampant foreskin problems in those battlefields.

Every mammal on earth has a foreskin, and that fact goes back for 100s of 1000s of years. Certainly surgeries and soap weren't around to allow those ancient specimens to stay healthy enough to be our ancestors.

No national medical association on earth recommends routine circumsion.

-Ron

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