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For that is the accusing fact, which it is impossible to deny: everywhere the law has grown out of abuse; everywhere the legislator has found himself forced to make man powerless to harm, which is synonymous with muzzling a lion or infibulating a boar.
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888
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Celsus gives a detailed description of the manner of infibulating as practiced among the Romans.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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Your comparison to FGM is an instructive one–it’s not men who insist on infibulating their daughters.
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Meinsius thinks that the custom of infibulating may be traced back to the time of the siege of Troy, for the singer Demodocus, who was left with Clytemnestra by Agamemnon, [205] appears to that critic, to have been a eunuch, or, at least, to here been infibulated. [
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction John Davenport 1833
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