xodus from Egypt, and it thereafter became a special
mark of the tribe."[13] Across the Near East, mutilations appeared before
the "eruptions of Moslem armies in the 600s A.D., but were subsequently
spread wherever Moslem armies ventured."[14] Although, there is no
specific Koranic mandate regarding male or female genital mutilations,
Mohammed viewed them as desirable' and they remain predominate in Moslem
areas today.[15] "Male genital mutilations were never adopted widely in
Europe, European Australia, Canada, Latin America, in the Orient, or by
Hindus, Southeast Asians, or Native Americans."[16] Infant circumcision
did not spread to the Untied States until the late 1800's and early 1900's
only after allopathic medical doctors recommended it as a cure for
childhood diseases and disorders such as "polio, tuberculosis, bedwetting,
and a new syndrome which appeared widely in the medical literature known as
Many psychoanalysts conclude that male genital mutilations form
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