My understanding is the practice started as a kind of ritual scarification for warrior tribes, and the relatively minor health benefits were incidental and discovered later. That explains why people chose to do it initially before it became a silly religious rite.
Realistically, this is how that conversation would go, 99% of the time:
“You might have a problem with your dick later, so let’s cut off the end of it now.”
“Uh, you can just fuck right off. I’ll take my chances.”
My understanding is the practice started as a kind of ritual scarification for warrior tribes, and the relatively minor health benefits were incidental and discovered later. That explains why people chose to do it initially before it became a silly religious rite.