Assertion: foreskin | /r/HasProperty | vilified
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text: Comfort makes the now obvious but then novel point that belief in the health benefits of circumcision is really the belief that the portion of the penis cut off is by nature pathogenic, an assumption which lay behind the medical profession's endorsement of routine circumcision in the nineteenth century, and which received forceful expression in Remondino's manifesto, where the foreskin is vilified, at tedious length, as a malign influence and moral "outlaw.