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((Short description|Philippine ritual male circumcision))
((more citations needed|date=March 2013))

'''Tulì''' is a [[Filipino people|Filipino]] [[Ritual|rite]] of male [[circumcision]]. It has a long historical tradition and is considered an obligatory [[rite of passage]] for males;<ref>((cite news |url=http://www.gmanews.tv/story/219779/nation/tuli-a-rite-of-passage-for-filipino-boys |title=Tuli a rite of passage for Filipino boys ((!)) News ((!)) GMA News Online |date=6 May 2011 |newspaper=GMA News Online |access-date=2 April 2014 |archive-date=24 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110824033511/http://www.gmanews.tv/story/219779/nation/tuli-a-rite-of-passage-for-filipino-boys |url-status=live ))</ref> those who have not undergone the ritual are ridiculed and labeled ''supót'' by their peers.<ref>((cite news |title='Circumcision season': Philippine rite puts boys under pressure |url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/-circumcision-season---philippine-rite-puts-boys-under-pressure--11640442 |access-date=20 June 2019 |work=Channel News Asia |agency=Agence France-Presse |date=19 June 2019 |archive-date=20 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190620140705/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/-circumcision-season---philippine-rite-puts-boys-under-pressure--11640442 |url-status=dead ))</ref>

[[Circumcision]] is not considered a religious rite in the Philippines, as some four-fifths of [[Filipino people|Filipinos]] [[Religion in the Philippines|profess]] [[Roman Catholicism in the Philippines|Roman Catholicism]], which does not require it. Rather, circumcision is a [[social norm]] rooted in tradition that is followed by society at large. Most boys usually undergo the procedure not shortly after birth but prior to reaching puberty or before [[high school]] (around ages 10–14).

There exists two common ways of undergoing ''tuli'': either the traditional way by a local village circumciser (known in Tagalog as having it done "de-pukpok") or having it done by medical practitioners in a hospital or clinical setting.
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==Background==
Circumcision in the Philippines, as practiced today, is not a religious rite. Circumcision is also not practiced by a majority of Christians worldwide. The practice appears to be traceable as being [[History of the Philippines (900–1521)|pre-Hispanic]] period in nature. A common theory posits that the prevalence of the practise is due to the influence of [[Islam in the Philippines|Islam]], which was prevalent in parts of the archipelago at least 200 years before the arrival of [[Christianity]] in the 16th century. It was also noted in ''Vocabulario de la Lengua Tagala'' that other synonyms of ''tuli'' are ''catan'' (''katan'' in modern Filipino orthography) and ''sonat'' which were from Arabic ''[[Khitan (circumcision)|khitan]]'' and Malay ''sunat'', respectively.<ref>((Cite web|title=Vocabulario de la lengua tagala [microform] : Noceda, Juan [José] de, 1681-1747 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming|url=https://archive.org/details/aqj5903.0001.001.umich.edu|access-date=2020-07-15|website=Internet Archive|year=1860 |language=en))</ref>

[[Antonio de Morga]], a Spanish lawyer and high-ranking colonial official in the Philippines during the 17th century, noted in his 1609 book ''Sucesos de las islas Filipinas'':
((blockquote|A few years before the Spaniards subdued the island of Luzon, certain natives of the island of Borneo began to go thither to trade, especially to the settlement of Manila and Tondo; and the inhabitants of the one island intermarried with those of the other. These Borneans are Mahometans, and were already introducing their religion among the natives of Luzon, and were giving them instructions, ceremonies, and the form of observing their religion, by means of certain gazizes whom they brought with them. Already a considerable number, and those the chiefest men, were commencing, although by piecemeal, to become Moros, ''and were being circumcised'' and taking the names of Moros. Had the Spaniards' coming been delayed longer, that religion would have spread throughout the island, and even through the others, and it would have been difficult to extirpate it. [emphasis added]<ref>((cite book | title=Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (translated into English, edited and annotated by E. H. BLAIR and J. A. ROBERTSON, first published in English in 1868, this edition 1907) | publisher=The Arthur H. Clark Company | author=de Morga, Antonio | location=Cleveland, Ohio | date=1609 | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/8phip10.txt | access-date=2017-12-21 | archive-date=2009-09-26 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090926105011/http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/8phip10.txt | url-status=live )), available online at the Gutenberg Project</ref>))

To which the prolific Filipino writer and nationalist [[Jose Rizal]] added in his 1890 annotated version of Moraga's work: "This custom [circumcision] has not fallen into disuse among the Filipinos, even among the Catholics."

In a 1903 article "Circumcision and Flagellation among the Filipinos" published in the Journal of the Association of Military Surgeons, Lieutenant Charles Norton Barney, of the medical department of the U. S. Army, noted that circumcision was "a very ancient custom among the Philippine indios, and so generalized that at least seventy or eighty per cent of males in the Tagál country have undergone the operation." He also noted that those who were uncircumcised and reached the age of puberty were taunted as "supút" by children of both sexes.<ref>((cite journal|last1=Barney|first1=Charles Norton|title=Circumcision and Flagellation among the Filipinos|journal=Journal of the Association of Military Surgeons|date=September 1903|volume=XII|page=158|url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofassocia1213asso#page/158/mode/2up))</ref>

==Contemporary practice==
More affluent parents opt to have their children circumcised as [[neonate]]s in [[hospital]], but the majority prefer that their sons undergo the tradition at around 8–12 years of age. Boys of the same age group would either go to government-sponsored missions, hospitals, or to a local circumciser. Boys normally undergo the procedure during the [[summer break]] before the start of classes as to allow time for healing. The most commonly-done procedure is in actuality not a ''circumcision'' but a [[dorsal slit]], where no foreskin is actually removed. When the foreskin is removed, it is commonly known locally as a "German cut" in reference to the introduction of the modern surgical technique by the founder of plastic and reconstructive surgery, [[Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=hpNlnylhRKsC&pg=PA435 ''Zirkumzision nach Dieffenbach.''] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220902032825/https://books.google.com/books?id=hpNlnylhRKsC&pg=PA435 |date=2022-09-02 )) (vgl. Schumpelick u.&nbsp;a., S. 434 ff.)</ref>

The [[Department of Health (Philippines)|Philippines Department of Health]] meanwhile sponsors an annual ''Operation Tuli'' project to circumcise boys; others assist and provide the service for free.

The traditional circumcision makes use of a curved piece of wood which is anchored into the ground. The protruding part of this apparatus is pointed at its end: the foreskin of the boy being circumcised is drawn over this protruding part. The circumciser rests his knife lengthwise across the boy's foreskin and then a quick blow is made with a stick, slicing the upper foreskin into two and exposing the [[Glans penis|glans]]. Prior to and while the procedure is being performed, the boy is told to chew [[guava]] leaves. The masticated guava leaves are applied onto the wound as a [[poultice]] and is bandaged. The boy is then to wash off in the cold waters of a nearby river. While this procedure is commonly known as a "circumcision", it is more accurately described as a [[superincision]] as no foreskin is removed during the procedure.

Newly circumcised boys usually [[crossdressing|wear]] [[housedress]]es or [[wikt:loose|loose]] [[skirt]]s to help in the healing and to avoid irritating the newly circumcised [[Human penis|penis]]. The swelling that might occur during this period is termed ''pangángamatis'' (literally, "becoming like a tomato", ''kamatis'') owing to the reddish appearance of the penis.

According to the [[World Health Organization]]: "In the Philippines, where circumcision is almost universal and typically occurs at age 10–14 years, a survey of boys found strong evidence of social determinants, with two thirds of boys choosing to be circumcised simply “to avoid being uncircumcised”, and 41% stating that it was “part of the tradition”<ref>((cite book|last1=Weiss|first1=H|title=Male circumcision - Global trends and determinants of prevalence, safety and acceptability|page=5|publisher=World Health Organization|year=2008|access-date=21 December 2017|location=Geneva|url=http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/43749/1/9789241596169_eng.pdf|archive-date=20 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820230413/http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/43749/1/9789241596169_eng.pdf|url-status=live))</ref>

The rite has been the subject of the award-winning 2005 film ''Tuli'' by [[Auraeus Solito]].

==References==
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[[Category:Philippine traditions]]
[[Category:Circumcision]]

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