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Jewish men who wished to appear as Greeks found that they could restore their natural covered appearance of their [[penis]] by a process called [[epispasm]]. This angered the rabbis who then developed a second stage of the ritual circumcision procedure called ''periah''.
[[Periah]] according to James Peron (2000):
<blockquote>
Periah consists of tearing and stripping back the remaining inner mucosal lining of the foreskin from the glans and then, by use of a sharp finger nail or implement, removing all of the inner mucosal tissue, including the excising and removal of the [[frenulum]] from the underside of the [[glans]]. The objective was to insure that no part of the remaining penile skin would rest against the glans corona. If any shreds of the mucosal [[foreskin]] tissue remained, or rejoined to the underside of the glans, the child was to be re-circumcised.<ref name="peron2000">{{REFjournal
|last=Peron
|init=JE
|author-link=James Peron
|url=https://cirp.org/library/history/peron2/
|title=Circumcision: then and now
|journal=Many Blessings
|date=2000
|season=Spring
|volume=III
|issue=
|pages=41-2
|accessdate=2023-08-23
}}</ref>
</blockquote>
The objective was to increase the loss of tissue and amount in harm and injury to the point where it would be impossible to recover the glans penis. This procedure, which caused maximum injury and harm, was the procedure adopted by the medical profession in the nineteenth century and is still used today.
==Condemnation of child circumcision==