What's the point of circumcision?

I know it's a dumb question but I don't get it lol. Why would you go through so much pain? Is it painful? Lol I don't know.
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I don't get it being religious- like surely it goes against God, like you're tampering with his creation. If he meant for it to not have the skin thing on the end then wouldn't he have just made man without it?
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  • well i think some people do it as tradition and others for hygene.. im personally not.. but im ok with it.. i would only cut it if my wife anted me to c:

  • You bet that shite is painful.

  • It gives my pee pee that mushroom tip

  • Oh god not another circumcision discussion !!

    • They do it just to tease me

  • There is no point. It's just a shitty cultural tradition that hasn't gone away yet.

  • Jesus was circumcised because God favors it

    • Anyone who is not circumcised is going to hell

    • God will hold you responsible for not circumcising your children, you are an abomination

    • You have no knowledge of the bible then. Jesus was against circumcision. It's part of the old school that his dying on the cross was supposed to eliminate. That is if you believe in mainstream christianity.

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  • Superstition.

    Surely it goes against god?

    Genesis 17:14
    Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjneut5T88M
    • LOL. Religious people can be hypocrites, but perhaps we should just be glad that they often reject parts of their religion that are barbaric. Paul made a concession on circ mostly just to get the gentiles to convert, and the mormons largely gave up polygamy due to public out cry. Nothing changes.

    • Hypocrisy is one thing, but many are just willfully ignorant of what their books say and and a sugar coated version of their religion in their mind.

  • It's to reduce sensation so guys feel less during sex. It's a completely pointless procedure that only harms the individual unless it's absolutely necessary for medical reasons which is rare

  • To prevent a build up of smeg behind the foreskin.

    • That's only true if the circumcision is a "tight circumcision", which is not all of them, thankfully. That's what can cause painful erections and all the nasty stuff.

    • Because otherwise, you STILL have to clean under the remainder of the foreskin. Not that that's really difficult, mind you. Takes like 10 seconds.