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- From: anne@cco.caltech.edu (Anneliese Lilje)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Circumcision etc.
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 20:09:35 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- >Sheryl Says:
- >
- >
- >
- >1. Recent studies have shown that circumcised men have less chance of
- > getting penile cancer.
-
- How COMMON is penile cancer? I would think it is quite rare. If one was
- to use this argument then since 1 out of 9 women will get breast
- cancer in their life all newborn girls should have mastectomies!
-
- >2. A small number of men have a problem where the foreskin does not grow
- > with the penis. (I forgot the name of this problem) In this case a
- > circumcision is medically required.
-
- And how rare is this? Is the occurrence of this problem more or less
- frequent than say complications due to the circumcision itself?
-
- >3. The older a man gets the more painfull a circumcision is. My sisters
-
- Hmmmm.... How do you know this? Did someone compare the pain level
- of a newborn who was circumcised to the pain of say a 30 year old? 40
- year old. How do you know this?
-
- > boyfriend had to be circumcised when he was in his mid thirties, he
- > was in the hospital for two weeks. According to my doctor, that is not
- > unusual for a man that age.
-
- He was hospitalized for the pain???? I'm confused. Please elaborate.
-
- I have nothing against anyone who wants to have their son circumcised for
- religious regions. I mean, that is the only real reason for
- circumcision.
-
- And that's good enough.
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