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- From: strom@Watson.Ibm.Com (Rob Strom)
- Subject: Re: About circumcision
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.133835.47907@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 13:38:35 GMT
- References: <1glhqeINNi59@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <1992Dec17.191202.13196@netnews.noc.drexel.edu> <1992Dec18.173018@IASTATE.EDU> <1992Dec19.015857.25809@colorado.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec19.015857.25809@colorado.edu>, maman@mars.Colorado.EDU (Nathan M. Maman) writes:
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- |>
- |> By another way, Rambam (Maimonides) explained why Jews are
- |> circumsized. The hygienic part is not the main part. I remember
- |> (well I hope) he wrote that humans were made perfect by God but as
- |> they were part mud, they have a moral imperfection: they like sex too
- |> much. So to avoid masturbation and lust, they remove this part so the
- |> penis will irritate easily.
- |>
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- Could you post where Rambam wrote that?
- This seems very unlike modern Jewish teaching.
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- I'd also be very surprised if studies were to
- show that Jewish men and boys masturbated less.
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- thread started, and misc.kids, for which the topic
- is conceivably relevant.)
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