Aneirin
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Joined: 3/18/2006 From: Tamaris Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: GotSteel Tazzy, not a single one of those points was mine. Also, If you'd block Rule I think you would have found this thread a whole lot less offensive. Personally, I can't say I ever really thought too much about my foreskin but the idea that I should have it removed strikes me as bizarre. Perhaps the women advocating this practice will ponder the idea of getting a female circumcision for a moment and understand where I'm coming from. Maybe I'm suffering from some confirmation bias, I certainly am attached to it (pun intended) but I just don't see these "good reasons" to get circumcised when they are negated by proper hygiene and safe sex practices which (despite what eyesopened will tell you) still need to be practiced in circumcised males. I'm starting to wonder if some of the vocally pro-circumcision posters on here are motivated by a need to justify their having their child circumcised. You do have a good point there. But I suppose time will tell, maybe one day one who was mutilated at birth might just ask their parent why was it done, especially so as the rest of the world seem to be moving on with this notion, and it is eventually found there is no good reason for the procedure to be done at all. Possible questions to come I suppose.
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Everything we are is the result of what we have thought, the mind is everything, what we think, we become - Guatama Buddha Conservatism is distrust of people tempered by fear - William Gladstone
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