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  3. From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay)
  4. Subject: The Foreskin-Impaired (was Re: Drooling over...)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec22.192904.18544@netcom.com>
  6. Organization: People's Front of Judea
  7. References: <1992Dec15.121329.27008@nstn.ns.ca> <1992Dec19.014916.15129@oracle.us.oracle.com> <1h6fivINNp1n@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
  8. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:29:04 GMT
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  10.  
  11. In article <1h6fivINNp1n@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> comrade@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Peter Cooper) writes:
  12. >
  13. >BTW:  are all Europeans uncircumcised like the film implies?  It's not
  14. >like Australia ;-)
  15.  
  16. I think that circumcision only recently (past few decades) came
  17. into widespread vogue. Among those who were adults during WWII
  18. (whether European, Australian, American, whatever), I think
  19. circumcision was very uncommon, except among those with religious
  20. reasons (e.g. Jews & Moslems).
  21.  
  22. I ran across a book set in the US during WWII; the hero realises,
  23. during the induction process, that he's the only Jew in the room
  24. because he's the only one circumsized. This is a shock, since the
  25. hero grew up in Brooklyn.
  26.  
  27. I hear that circumcision is now going out of fashion again
  28. (though not in *my* family...).
  29. -- 
  30. Andrew Solovay    
  31.                 "I know that, in America and under capitalism,
  32.                  I am the freest woman in history."
  33.                                 --- Camille Paglia
  34.