Metzitsah B’Peh Must Be Banned

Article here. Excerpt:

'One topic I’ve never before addressed on Beyond the Bris is the practice of metzitsah b’peh. There are reasons for this—and I’ll discuss them further down. This very ancient practice takes place during traditional religious circumcision, just after the mohel has removed the foreskin. 

Before this practice was in the news because of infants contracting herpes, and long before I was involved in the genital autonomy movement, the way I had always understood the practice—the way it must have been described to me at some point during my childhood (not by my parents)—was as a brief “washing” of the circumcision wound with wine that the mohel (ritual circumciser) took into his mouth.'

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