CIRCUMCISION AND CIVILISATION
By Z. BARTOVA
(ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, ISRAEL 1958)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter One:
THE PRIMORDIALITY OF INFLICTING INJURIES ON THE SEX ORGANS
a. The large herd and the little herd.
b. Primitive Human Hordes
c. Poligamy.
d. Transmition to Monogamy and the position of women.
e. Slave economy and religious castration.
Chapter Two:
THE RITES OF SEX INCISIONS AND OFFERINGS
a. Forms of incisions on the sex organs.
b. Blood and fertility sacrifices.
c. Offerings to Molech.
d. Death and resurrection.
Chapter Three:
FATAL IGNORANCE AND SEXUAL REPRESSION
a. The discovery of the glands and their functions.
b. Forms of castration.
c. From primeval man to the present.
d. Phimosis.
e. Castrated and circumcised.
f. Sexual repression.
Chapter Four:
ANATOMICAL AND CHEMICAL FACTS
a. The testicles, semen and the sex hormones.
b. The penis.
c. The composition of protoplasm.
d. The importance of the Corona's Membrane (the foreskin).
e. The foreskin and the brain centres.
Chapter Five:
INJURIES TO TOUCH AND SIGHT
a. The Penis and the sense of touch.
b. Eye diseases and Vitamin A deficiencies.
c. Blindness in the Orient and sexual deficiencies.
d. An anatomical analogy
Chapter Six:
ADOLESCENCE
a. Adolescent tortures.
b. Early and late adolescence.
c. Sexual maturity and economic conditions.
d. The hormones of adolescence.
e. Spiritual adolescence and brain development.
f. The transition to independence and youthful idealism.
Chapter Seven:
STAGES OF GROWTH AND REPRODUCTION
a. Infantile adolescence.
b. Cryptorchysm and Mongolism.
c. The male hormone.
d. Morphological similarity.
e. Past without present and the maturing of nations.
Chapter Eight:
ICONOCLASM
a. Two instruments.
b. Iconoclasm and castration.
c. Human consciousness.
d. Arts and Crafts of savages.
Chapter Nine:
THE CIRCUMCISION OF JEWS
a. At the outset of Jewish history.
b. Tearing of the Membrane of the Corona, and its origins.
c. The "sucking" ritual and contagious diseases.
d. Hemorrhage and fatalities after circumcision.
e. The new born.
Chapter Ten:
IN OPPOSITION TO CIRCUMCISION
a. Ruling concerning Circumcised and Gentiles.
b. Ancient and modern opinions of Jewish savants.
c. Circumcision, Venereal diseases, Cancer, etc.
d. Comparisons and some statistical facts.
e. The arguments against circumcision, and their defeat.
f. Contrary results.
Chapter Eleve:
SKIN COLOUR
a. Hereditary constitution.
b. Pigment changes.
c. Dark and light-skinned circumcised.
d. Incisions and skin colour.
Chapter Twelve:
THE HUMAN RACE AND CIVILIZATION
a. Racial Morphology.
b. Craniumetry (measurements of the skull) and
bone-hardening processes.
d. Backward Societies.
a. Slavery.
Chapter Thirteen:
TWO PARTS OF THE WORLD
a. Oral and visual expression.
b. Spiritual unity and spiritual disintegration
c. Cultures of earth and water.
d. The declines and rises of the West.
e. Progressive science, and not Morality.
CONCLUSION.