Posted on 04/05/2006 5:19:29 PM PDT by Giant Conservative
[I was so traumatized by circumcision I kept pulling on it every chance I got for 2 decades.]
LOL...I had an uncle years ago tell me when he went for the visit to the doc after his vasectomy he played dumb with the nurse and made her tell him what they wanted done. He told her he'd done it all those years for pleasure so he guessed he could do it one more time for medical science.
I knew a guy who was int the army with me who had foreskin. In the field it makes for an extremely great place for all sorts of crap to grow. It isn't sanitary to put it mildly. Anyway, he had to have it surgically removed because of constant infection problems with himself and his wife.
My son was born last year. The hospital gave us the choice, with no attempt to sway us either way. Before they took him next door for the procedure, the doctor showed us the tool. It has a little bell-shaped cover, to make sure they don't cut any more than they mean to. After they got done, the doc told me they had to get a different one, because the normal one wasn't big enough. That'll sure make a new daddy proud.
When I was in Turkey in the summer of 1996, I saw whole families gathered on the grounds of the mosques, the "guest of honor", dressed in an elaborate costume, was the young man about to be trimmed
Agree. Best decision I made as a parent was to keep my sons whole. For parents who didn't, I'm sorry. Don't be spiteful and mad. Just get on with things as your children will.
The issue concerns the children of the future. Arguments about contracting AIDS and penile cancer have more to do with promiscuity and cleanliness in that order. Ears get dirty we don't cut them off.
Circumcision is a good thing. The only people against it are truly ... strange.
Furthermore it's a medical fact that foreskin makes men more susceptible to AIDS and other STDS.
Maybe it was because of the damage caused by their original injuries.
Smegma free for 44 years, thank you Mom and Dad!
One of my friends had the operation when he was fresh out of college. It was undertaken at the advice of a doctor to improve his sexual function.
The Apostle Paul preached openly that it is clearly NOT required of Gentiles.
BTW: Israel really is a developed country.
I've heard that too. It's less "trauma" for the woman, just in the mechanics of how it works. I mean, probably 90% of 6.5 billion people are uncirc. Why it continues here is beyond me. If you aren't a clean person, it doesn't matter if you're cut or not, you're going to stink anyway. The cancer bit is the same either way. Shrug. I don't and won't have any boys, but I wouldn't cut them. If it becomes a problem later, so be it. Let them grow up and have their own choice on the issue.
She's not shy. LOL
Methinks you are correct.
Welcome to Freerepublic rabblerouser. You is ignorant.
Bull.
This findings in this article are not based on any reported medical studies.
Kind of reminds me of how the findings on homosexuality were changed in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)- from the classification of mental illness to "normal" behavior.
These medical associations always seem to make policy based on bias and/or political correctness alone.
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