Yadda: Circumcision is an abhorrent mutilation that serves no useful purpose at all. What on earth possessed you to do this to your baby?
It was done to me, with no ill effects. I watched the Jewban physician that delivered my son perform the procedure on my son a couple of days after he was born, it isn't such a big deal. There are members of my family who had it done as adults, for very necessary non-religious reasons. Circumcision is a hygienic, beneficial practice. Studies have even shown it is pivotal in preventing the spread of STDs, HIV included. Not that it is an important factor, but did I mention that scientific polls demonstrate that on average, women by far prefer a man to have an circumcised penis?
Wintess 007: As a baby I was in this "club" and now I love it...don't remember having it done as a baby though!
Neither do I have any recollection, or feel mutilated, and I have a perfectly healthy organ, and enjoy sex thoroughly.
LouBelle: I wouldn't know but isn't it a little bit more healthy to be circumsised? in that bacteria could breed under the foreskin? (if you're not too clean)
Even if you are clean, if you live in a very hot climate without the benefit of air conditioning, you can have problems. Which is why family members I mentioned above had the procedure done as adolescents or adults. For example, circumsized soldiers in Vietnam had far less jungle rot problems than their uncircumcized brethren. You can't always count on first-world conditions. Here is some pertinent information:
Infections, initiated by the aggravation of dirt and sand, are not uncommon under such conditions and have even crippled whole armies, where it is difficult to achieve sanitation during prolonged battle. A US Army report stated that in World War II 150,000 soldiers were hospitalized for foreskin problems due to inadequate hygiene, leading to the statements: "Time and money could have been saved had prophylactic circumcision been performed before the men were shipped overseas" and "Because keeping the foreskin clean was very difficult in the field, many soldiers with only a minimal tendency toward phimosis were likely to develop balanoposthitis [268]. In the Vietnam War men requested circumcision to avoid "jungle rot". Similarly sand was a problem for uncircumcised men in the Gulf War [121]. Thus, historically it was not uncommon for soldiers to be circumcised in preparation for active service. The Judeo-Muslim practice of circumcision quite likely had its origin in Egyptian civilization , where there is evidence of a circumcised mummy at the time the Hebrews inhabited Egypt , as well as illustrations of the operation itself and of circumcised Pharoahs, dating back to 3000 BC [377]. One possible reason the Egyptians could have circumcised themselves and their slaves might have been to prevent schistosomal infection [377, 378]. Urinary tract obstruction and hematuria are common in localities such as the Nile Valley that are inhabited by the blood fluke , Schistosoma haematobium . The preputial sac would undoubtedly possess the adverse ability of being able to hold water infected with the cercaria stage of the life cycle of this parasite and so facilitate its entry into the body. The perpetuation of the procedure by the Jews may have subsequently been driven by a desire to maintain cleanliness in an arid, sandy desert environment. Such considerations could also explain why it is practiced in multiple other cultures that live in such conditions. In each instance, the original practical reason became lost as the ritual persisted as a religious rite in many of the various cultures of the world. In the Muslim religion circumcision is performed over a wide range of ages in childhood.
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