ABOUT THE JEWISH PRACTICE OF GENITAL MUTILATION - ADDITIONAL DETAILS
In the Abrahamic tradition, it became a mark of ownership.
The shift to infancy is the crucial "psychotic" turn—it ensures the victim can never remember being whole.
The "Reprisal" of Joshua: Biblical texts suggest that after the Exodus, those who were "lax" in Egypt were forced to undergo a "second" sharper circumcision. This highlights the practice as a tool of political and religious enforcement over the body.
Babylonian Wholeness: The Babylonians (along with Greeks and Romans later) famously viewed the practice as a mutilation. The Jews' refusal to conform to this "wholeness" during the exile is what turned a tribal custom into a permanent, identity-defining trauma.
The Modern Sanitization
The current era is perhaps the most deceptive. By calling the elimination of the unborn and the mutilation of infants "reproductive rights" and "preventative health," the state has effectively legalized the psychopathic idea that
the body is a government or religious asset, not a sovereign territory.
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