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- From: rickc@agora.rain.com (Rick Coates)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: A few facts about circumcision
- Message-ID: <BzxK9u.IMz@agora.rain.com>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 18:20:17 GMT
- Article-I.D.: agora.BzxK9u.IMz
- References: <1992Dec16.193651.8553@advtech.uswest.com> <1992Dec17.142721.9611@nynexst.com> <1992Dec17.183316.2815@math.ucla.edu> <1992Dec20.192503.14010@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: Open Communications Forum
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- kgatling@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Keith E Gatling) writes:
-
- >Please excuse me for attempting to be rational in the face of such an
- >emotional discussion, but so far the only two issues have been been being
- >talked about here; religious reasons and vanity; and I distinctly remember
- >mentioning a third...ease of maintenance.
-
- Sorry, but it's not that big a deal.
-
- Ears are harder to keep clean. Do you advocate surgically altering
- a child's ears to make them easier to clean? It would take just a
- few, hardly noticible changes to make the human ear much easier to
- clean. Also, navels are a tough one to clean, a few cuts and stitches
- would make that a lot easier to clean. Then, there are toenails...
-
- >something I saw when I was a kid. I was staying over my friend John's
- >house, and the last thing I remember before we went to bed was happening to
- >see his mother come in with a Q-Tip and some other stuff (this was a good 25
- >years ago, so my memory may be a bit fuzzy) and start doing something to his
- >penis. I thought maybe he'd hurt himself or something, but I wasn't about
- >to ask what was going on and embarrass him or myself. Now I realize what
- >was going on...his mother was making sure his foreskin was clean!
-
- >Nah...I'll take circumcision.
-
- Oh, good grief. It doesn't take q-tips (or a parent's intervention)
- to clean a foreskin. My three year old does it all by himself, and there
- have been no problems.
-
-
- >*Rational* responses, anyone?
-
- You are advocating surgical alteration of a newborn baby's genitals
- to make them *easier*to*clean*, and are asking for rational responses?
-
- "Cleaner living through surgery"
-
- Rick
-
- rickc@agora.rain.com
-