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unusual facts about Foreskin's Lament


Foreskin's Lament

The play is a drama set in a rugby changing room after a practice, and at an after-match party.


Circumcision

Douglas Gairdner's 1949 article "The Fate of the Foreskin" argued persuasively that the evidence available at that time showed that the risks outweighed the known benefits.

Clitoroplasty

Dr Suporn Watanyusakul uses a modified technique that preserves some erectile tissue to simulate clitoral engorgement and a small amount of foreskin to act as a clitoral hood.

Foreskin Man

The second issue of Foreskin Man, in which the hero fights against a villain named Monster Mohel drew criticism from the Anti-Defamation League.

François Sagat

Dildos made from an exact molding of Sagat's genitalia with realistic veins, glans and foreskin were marketed.

Gambler's Lament

Moriz Winternitz considered the poem to be "most beautiful among the non–religious poems of the Rig Veda".

Leo Allatius

Outside scholarly circles Allatius is perhaps best known today for his De Praeputio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Diatriba (A Discussion of the Foreskin of Our Lord Jesus Christ), a minor essay mentioned in Fabricius's Bibliotheca Graeca (xiv. 17) as an unpublished work.

The 4-Skins

Most of the original four band members were or had been skinheads, thus the double meaning of the band's name.

The Wife's Lament

One such treatment considers the poem to be allegory, in which interpretation the lamenting speaker represents the Church as Bride of Christ or as an otherwise feminine allegorical figure.


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