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The relationship of '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' | The relationship of '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is becoming clear. Violence is defined as "behavior or treatment in which physical force is exerted for the purpose of causing damage or injury",<ref>{{REFweb | ||
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The first recorded use of [[circumcision]] to cause violence was at [[Gilgal]] (1406 BCE), where Joshua ordered the Israelites to be [[circumcised]].<ref>{{REFweb | |||
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}}</ref> The [[adult circumcision| circumcision]] event occured just before the military action to take possession of the land of Canaan.<ref>{{REFweb | |||
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The New York Times (1995) reported: | |||
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Several strands of findings presented by researchers at the weekend conference pointed to the same conclusion: brutality and cruelty to children can leave a clear mark on the chemistry of the brain. And those changes in brain chemistry may be the route by which a brutalized child becomes a violent adult.<ref name="goleman1995">{{REFnews | Several strands of findings presented by researchers at the weekend conference pointed to the same conclusion: brutality and cruelty to children can leave a clear mark on the chemistry of the brain. And those changes in brain chemistry may be the route by which a brutalized child becomes a violent adult.<ref name="goleman1995">{{REFnews | ||
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Lloyd deMause (1996) argued that early childhood [[trauma]] results in aggressive adult behavior. | [https://psychohistory.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/5.-Final-Elovitz-on-LLoyd-deMauses-Contributions-to-Psycohhistory.pdf Lloyd deMause] (1996) argued that early childhood [[trauma]] results in aggressive adult behavior. | ||
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''That America has arranged to have more people on welfare'' – ''Gingrich’s dreaded “underclass”'' – ''than any other industrialized country is a clue to why nations need poor people to punish for their prosperity. Since it is prosperity and threats of intolerable individuation that trigger the restaging of trauma, it makes psychohistorical sense that America today'' – ''the most prosperous and freest nation of any in history'' – ''has more women and children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation. Nor is it coincidental that the world’s wealthiest country has the highest child homicide rate and the most newborn boys [[circumcised]], both indices of society’s hostility towards children.''<ref name="demause1996">{{REFjournal | ''That America has arranged to have more people on welfare'' – ''Gingrich’s dreaded “underclass”'' – ''than any other industrialized country is a clue to why nations need poor people to punish for their prosperity. Since it is prosperity and threats of intolerable individuation that trigger the restaging of trauma, it makes psychohistorical sense that America today'' – ''the most prosperous and freest nation of any in history'' – ''has more women and children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation. Nor is it coincidental that the world’s wealthiest country has the highest child homicide rate and the most newborn boys [[circumcised]], both indices of society’s hostility towards children.''<ref name="demause1996">{{REFjournal | ||
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==Circumcision and violence in American society== | |||
[[Ronald Goldman]], Ph.D., (1997) conducted a thorough review of the effect of the American practice of [[child circumcision]] on American society. He reported greatly increased levels of adult male violence, domestic violence, rape, child sexual abuse, suicide, theft, and warfare.<ref name="goldman1997">{{REFbook | |||
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|title=Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma | |||
|url=https://circumcision.org/circumcision-the-hidden-trauma/ | |||
|chapter=7. The impact of circumcision on American society | |||
|pages=157-75 | |||
|location=Boston | |||
|publisher=Vanguard | |||
|ISBN=0-9644895-3-8 | |||
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==Is circumcision itself violence?== | ==Is circumcision itself violence?== | ||
The performance of a circumcision operation takes minimal physical force, but it makes up for the lack of force by the great damage to the [[penis]] and its many protective, immunological, sensory, and sexual functions,<ref>{{REFweb | The performance of a circumcision operation takes minimal physical force, but it makes up for the lack of force by the great damage to the [[penis]] and its many protective, immunological, sensory, and sexual functions,<ref name="goldman1992">{{REFweb | ||
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According to Professor [[Leonard Glick]], Chapter 17 (containing the alleged [[Abrahamic covenant]]) was not added to the book of Genesis until after the Babylonian captivity, which ended in 538 BCE. | According to the late Professor [[Leonard Glick]], Chapter 17 (containing the alleged [[Abrahamic covenant]]) was not added to the book of Genesis until after the Babylonian captivity, which ended in 538 BCE. | ||
The [[Brit Milah]] in which a [[circumcised]] [[mohel]] reenacts his own traumatic circumcision upon a newborn boy on the eighth day of life is a standard feature of [[Judaism]]. | The [[Brit Milah]] in which a [[circumcised]] [[mohel]] reenacts his own traumatic circumcision upon a newborn boy on the eighth day of life is a standard feature of [[Judaism]]. | ||
Jewish philosophers [[Philo]] and [[Moses Maimonides]] both believed that reduction of body pleasure was a positive attribute of circumcision. | Jewish philosophers [[Philo]] and [[Moses Maimonides]] both believed that reduction of [[body pleasure]] was a positive attribute of [[Brit Milah| circumcision]]. | ||
===Islam=== | ===Islam=== | ||