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- From: ghica@fig.citib.com (Renato Ghica)
- Subject: Re: Circumcisions (Are they ever performed on adults ?)
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- References: <1992Nov15.060846.13787@ennews.eas.asu.edu> <BxsEr1.6DA@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1992Nov16.044856.1700@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:25:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.044856.1700@ennews.eas.asu.edu>, prado@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Louis A. Prado) writes:
- |> In article <BxsEr1.6DA@acsu.buffalo.edu>, oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown) writes:
- |> >
- |> > Are there any studies regarding decreased sensitivity (or is this
- |> > just hearsay)?
- |> >
- |> Just trust me on this one Peggy, sensitivity IS decreased :).
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- |> > >>Anyway, what options are available to adult men who were not circumsized at
- |> > >>birth.
- |> > Leaving it alone, for one.
- |>
- |> Well considering that wives of uncircumcised men are much more likely to
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- |> contract cancer of the cervix, and all the other problems previously
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- |> mentioned, leaving it alone doesn't sound like the best advice.
- |> > -Peggy
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- |> -Lou
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- So that's what happen to cavemen and cave-women of old!
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- Is this for real? Please direct us to unbiased medical references.
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- (Studies of people living near a major city, or in Long Island,
- or smokers, or drinkers, or people with lead pipes or people
- that eat saccharin or women that use fiber-glass based
- tampons or plasticised underwear or have a workstation under their
- desk or eat too much or eat too little ...... DO NOT COUNT!)
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- Copyright (c) 1992 Renato Ghica / ghica@fig.citib.com
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