Если ты не заметил, то и ты, и я привели ссылки на английскую вики, но почему-то мой вариант ты считаешь маловероятным, хотя он есть и по твоей ссылке. )
The origins of male circumcision is not known with certainty. It has been variously proposed that it began as a religious sacrifice, as a rite of passage marking a boy's entrance into adulthood, as a form of sympathetic magic to ensure virility or fertility, as a means of enhancing sexual pleasure, as an aid to hygiene where regular bathing was impractical, as a means of marking those of higher social status, as a means of humiliating enemies and slaves by symbolic castration, as a means of differentiating a circumcising group from their non-circumcising neighbors, as a means of discouraging masturbation or other socially proscribed sexual behaviors, as a means of removing "excess" pleasure, as a means of increasing a man's attractiveness to women, as a demonstration of one's ability to endure pain, or as a male counterpart to menstruation or the breaking of the hymen, or to copy the rare natural occurrence of a missing foreskin of an important leader, and as a display of disgust of the smegma produced by the foreskin.
Так что, да, это лишь один из вариантов. Насколько он вероятен, решать не нам. Но если такое случалось, то это точно произошло раньше религиозного обрезания, поэтому я вижу логику оставить его одним из главных вариантов происхождения.
А насчёт того, что не сказано в самом сообщении: мы обсуждали вопрос крещения ребёнка в современном мире в России и странах первого мира (hattab живёт в Европе, насколько помню). Обрезанию был посвящён один абзац, в котором говорилось о его религиозном происхождении и одной из главных причин введения. Я объяснял в этом контексте и, если бы нужно было выйти за пределы современной истории и окунуться в древнюю, то это указал бы.
По твоей ссылке хорошо объясняются причины возрождения обрезания в англоязычных странах, которые наиболее близки к контексту, в котором шло обсуждение.
History of male circumcision: Masturbation concerns:
Circumcision in English-speaking countries arose in a climate of negative attitudes towards sex, especially concerning masturbation. In her 1978 article "The Ritual of Circumcision" Karen Erickson Paige writes: "The current medical rationale for circumcision developed after the operation was in wide practice. The original reason for the surgical removal of the foreskin, or prepuce, was to control 'masturbatory insanity' – the range of mental disorders that people believed were caused by the 'polluting' practice of 'self-abuse.'"
"Self-abuse" was a term commonly used to describe masturbation in the 19th century. According to Paige, "treatments ranged from diet, moral exhortations, hydrotherapy, and marriage, to such drastic measures as surgery, physical restraints, frights, and punishment. Some doctors recommended covering the penis with plaster of Paris, leather, or rubber; cauterization; making boys wear chastity belts or spiked rings; and in extreme cases, castration." Paige details how circumcision became popular as a masturbation remedy:
In the 1890s, it became a popular technique to prevent, or cure, masturbatory insanity. In 1891 the president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England published On Circumcision as Preventive of Masturbation, and two years later another British doctor wrote Circumcision: Its Advantages and How to Perform It, which listed the reasons for removing the "vestigial" prepuce. Evidently the foreskin could cause "nocturnal incontinence," hysteria, epilepsy, and irritation that might "give rise to erotic stimulation and, consequently, masturbation." Another physician, P.C. Remondino, added that "circumcision is like a substantial and well-secured life annuity ... it insures better health, greater capacity for labor, longer life, less nervousness, sickness, loss of time, and less doctor bills." No wonder it became a popular remedy.
В итоге, мне теперь на полчаса спать меньше придётся из-за этой дискуссии о деталях. )
И эта девушка мягко настаивает, что неплохо бы обвенчаться. Ты будешь до последнего её отговаривать или заплатишь и сделаешь, т.к. тебе без разницы?
Или для тебя подобная степень религиозности абсолютно недопустима в человеке, с которым ты планируешь прожить вместе 200 лет?