"A 21-year-old Langa law student looked forward to his rite of passage to manhood but two weeks after his circumcision at an initiation school in the bush he had a psychotic episode and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital.

In another case, a 26-year-old man earned the money in Cape Town for his initiation and then returned to the Eastern Cape for the ceremony. But back in the city his life spiralled out of control.

He was dismissed from work for trying to stab a co-worker, and within a year of the rite was admitted to a psychiatric hospital and diagnosed with schizophrenia.

These are two case studies taken from the PhD thesis of medical anthropologist Lauraine Vivian, titled Psychiatric Disorder in Xhosa-speaking Men following Circumcision."

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20080719085854365C850564

Sounds like total bullshit to me.

It's pointless and shit but whatever.

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jesus christ was a cunt and a rapist

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I'm sure you'd have to be fucked up to begin with if you want to cut off part of your dick, specially well into your twenties.

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Quote: from Trastie at 7:46 pm on July 19, 2008

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I'm sure you'd have to be fucked up to begin with if you want to cut off part of your dick, specially well into your twenties.

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How culturally sensitive of you.

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tHIS IS TO DUMB FOR AN ANSWER

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LMAO.  hey, robdude, is that a circumcised phallic symbel in that photo?

FP

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Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.