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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- Subject: Re: A few facts about circumcision
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- References: <1992Dec19.172939.18506@newstand.syr.edu> <1h7lh5INNdih@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <1992Dec22.203320.53231@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:14:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.203320.53231@watson.ibm.com> strom@Watson.Ibm.Com (Rob Strom) writes:
- >In article <1h7lh5INNdih@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>, potts@oit.itd.umich.edu (Paul Potts) writes:
- >
- >|> Among my earliest memories are memories of going to a doctor multiple
- >|> times to be treated for a swollen, purple, infected circumcision scar.
- >|> My penis is pretty normal now, but the area below and around the glans
- >|> is largely scar tissue - inflexible, dry, and easily irritated, like
- >|> a rubber band constricting the glans. When I become sore from sex, the
- >|> circumcision scar is invariably the only part that becomes sore. I'm
- >|> pretty well convinced that if I had a foreskin intact, I would be able
- >|> to engage in sex longer without becoming sore, and not wincing half
- >|> the time when my partner plays with my penis a little too roughly.
- >|> Now, I'm not a genital cripple, and enjoy my sex life, but feel that
- >|> perhaps it could be a little bit better with original factory equipment.
- >
- >You remember what happened when you were 8 days old???
-
- (Didn't you read: "multiple times"?)
-
- I don't know how much time you spend at playgrounds, but in the
- summertime, in the well-populated playgrounds in New York, it is
- not a rare thing to see a naked 1- or 2-year old with fully evident
- healing problems.
-
- As for memories, I won't speak for the above victim, but I recall very
- clearly my fright at a huge dog owned by friends of my parents, when I
- was two years old. So I don't doubt this victim might remember the
- physical violation of his penis even earlier.
-
-
- >Jewish circumcisions (which is where this thread originally started)
- >are not performed by "the medical establishment".
- >
- >The mohel who circumcized me did nothing but circumcisions;
- >the mohel who circumcized my son did nothing but circumcisions.
-
- I've always wondered about how the "tradition" of circumcision would
- survive if it were practiced at bar mitzvahs instead. Nobody could
- then rationalize it away (dogs don't feel pain; babies don't feel pain;
- babies don't remember). Take it like a man, when you're a man.
-
- Don
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