• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    That wasn’t the original reason. It was to stop masturbation. The whole cleaning thing was a later rationalization when they realized how fucked up it was.

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        11 months ago

        Everyone has been side lined by the tobacco industry nobody stopped to look at the moisturiser industry.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah instead of doing it at birth they should have done it as a punishment for people who masturbate. That would have worked much better