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Remember that time in human history (specifically in the western world) where radical surgeries and medical therapies ran rampant? That's why. The "religion" in question that spread it happened to be modernizing medicine. Many prominent doctors aside from Kellogg touted circumcision as a cure for a myriad of different things, from mental illnesses, paralysis, epilepsy, and venereal diseases. The dispute that circumcision would lessen the urge towards masturbation was widely regarded by many medical professionals of the early 19th century, in fact, it was doctor Jonathan Hutchinson who was the leading pioneer in influencing the English for circumcision, which in turn bled through to America. Circumcision didn't just stop at males either, doctors were willing to use their influence to perform clitoridectomies. Surgeon Isaac Baker Brown was the leading "expert" on these practices and also parroted that performing mutilation onto women would cure their own epilepsy, "mania", and other things.On a side note, anyone know specifically why circ became so massive in the US? I know about kellogg the cereal man but from what I can find out about him he was a fairly minor and almost insignificant figure, if it wasnt for the cereal than he likely would be a footnote of history.
The most ironic part about a lot of this is how these medical professionals all really believed that masturbation specifically was the root cause to a lot of sickness. Hence why they wanted to mutilate people so badly.