B976 <=> B978 (BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 977)

“And these customs are so deeply implanted in their everyday existence by their religion that at the present time, observing them mechanically without any wiseacring, beings are thereby more or less ensured against several evils which owing to the abnormally established conditions of being-existence have been gradually formed and still continue to be formed in uncountable numbers on that ill-fated planet.

“The beings of most of the groups on the continent Asia are safeguarded against many venereal diseases as well as against any other ‘sexual abnormalities’ if only, for instance, by such customs known there by the names ‘Sooniat’ and ‘Abdest.’

“The first of these customs, namely, sooniat, or, as it is otherwise called ‘circumcision,’ not only saves most of the Asiatic beings of responsible age from many venereal diseases there, but also safeguards many of the children and youths of the continents of Europe and America against, namely, that ‘scourge’ known there under the name ‘onanism.’

“According to this custom, the beings of responsible age in most of the contemporary groups of the continent of Asia usually perform on their ‘results’ – that is to say, on their children – at a certain age, a ritual which consists in this, that in the case of boys they cut what they call the ‘frenum’ and ‘prepuce’ of the ‘penis.’

“And today those children of your contemporary favorites who of course automatically are subjects of this custom, are almost completely safeguarded against the inevitable result of several evils already definitely fixed in the process of the existence of your favorites.

“For example, according to my statistics, the said ‘scourge’ that is ‘children’s onanism,’ is scarcely met with among the children of those three-brained beings there who observe this custom of ‘circumcision,’ whereas all the children and youths of the beings who fail to observe this custom are without exception exposed to this same sexual abnormality.