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| | Felix Bryk circumcision traditions and taboos. Routine circumcision phimosis and male initiation |
 | | It is an important point that the young men, after subincision, become less prone to moral transgression, as Eylmann relates. |
 | | "In the case of subincision, the explanation, rejected however, by Strehlow and Eylmann, that a diminishing in the number of births is thus attained, needs only a slight change: that sexual intercourse in general is thus prevented.(2) We have the symbol of castration, then, here also. |
 | | According to these, the boys, who are entering their 'wild oats' years, must be brought under the dominion of the old men by circumcision; they must be brought up in obedience. |
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