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When repeated ad nauseam, attempts to question or challenge them slowly erode and we bear numb witness to the demonisation and homogenisation of youth culture. They talk about their demonisation in the media, about wanting to flee, about retraumatisation, and about the fear of being forced to return. She points out that part of this process was the demonisation of the foreskin as a source of nervous and physical disease and agrees with Hyam that circumcision was central to the late Victorian redefinition of manliness in terms of self-restraint and cleanliness: "Widely believed to dampen sexual desire, circumcision was seen positively as a means of both promoting chastity and physical health. |
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