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- Path: sparky!uunet!island!guido
- From: guido@island.COM (Guido Marx)
- Subject: Re: A few facts about circumcision
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.004958.5692@island.COM>
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- Organization: Island Graphics Corp. San Rafael, Ca.
- References: <ksand-271292172758@wintermute.apple.com>> <KAYVAN.92Dec28172903@satyr.Sylvan. <ksand-301292133445@wintermute.apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:49:58 GMT
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- In article <ksand-301292133445@wintermute.apple.com> ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik ) writes:
- >In article <C002FG.1zz@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, msg7038@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
- >(Michalis Syrimis) wrote:
- >> Is it true that many americans,irrespective of relegious
- >> or ethnic background have their newborn sons
- >> circumsised today? If this is indeed so, what are the
- >> reasons behind it?
- >
- >Well, when we got our son the nurses were jumping around in the
- >room wondering why we didn't want to circumsize our son. By which
- >I answered "He's had a painful experience already, leave him alone".
- >
- >Yes, it seems this is something based on American tradition, and
- >where Europeans will get a shock if they have babies over here.
-
- Well, it seems that this must depend partly upon where you live. Our
- son wasn't circumcised and neither are about 50% of the boy babies born
- in Marin General. Of our friends, the majority of the boys are
- intact. Ironically, it seems that most of the boys who were circumcised
- were done because the FATHER wanted it done.
-
- BTW, I am circumcised and if I had been given the choice I would have
- opted to remain intact. I can't hold this against my parents however,
- they were merely following what was considered to be "good medicine"
- at the time I was born.
-
- Guido
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