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ORIGINAL: Jeffff


it is a little too late to save my foreskin...... roughly 53 years too late

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ORIGINAL: eyesopened

What is lost?


Tens of thousands of estrogen receptors?  How much estrogen is secreted in a woman's mouth anyway?

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ORIGINAL: eyesopened
What is lost?

According to the American  Cancer Society about half the cases of HPV are lost.
"an uncircumcised man is more likely to have HPV infection and that his partner will more readily develop cervical cancer."  http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_New_Study_Shows_Benefit_of_Male_Circumcision.asp

According to the CDC, about 40% of new HIV cases are lost.
" After adjustment for confounding factors in the population-based studies, the relative risk for HIV infection was 44% lower in circumcised men. The strongest association was seen in men at high risk, such as patients at sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics, for whom the adjusted relative risk was 71% lower for circumcised men. " 
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/circumcision.htm

My dad tells a tale of one of his Army Air Corps(WWII) buddies who had to go through a medically necessary circumcision due to a horrilbe infection.  My dad was a ball turret gunner and not a lot grossed him out but that episode stood out in his mind that he insisted his sons (my brothers) be circumcised.  Back in the late 1940s not a lot of doctors were adept at the surgery and my dad asked his friend (a jew) if a non-jew could get a Mohel to perform the surgury.  As it turns out they could and they did. 

Tens of thousands of estrogen receptors?  How much estrogen is secreted in a woman's mouth anyway?

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ORIGINAL: Rule

Sexually transmitted diseases are a blessing for the human race, given to us by one of the mighty pagan gods - and thus by the his will facilitating Divine. All those who circumcise or with a circumcised penis, oppose this god's will and thus blaspheme; they ought to be dead.

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ORIGINAL: heartcream

This made me really cry piteously for the men who have been shorn and continue to be.

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ORIGINAL: heartcream

Many people think circumcision removes nothing more than a little extra skin. The truth is that circumcision removes several critical components of male sexual anatomy.

I was with a bunch of friends this past weekend and this issue came up. Personally I feel circumcision is barbaric, cruel and detrimental to a peaceful civilization.

I was astounded to hear that there are tens of thousands of nerve receptors for estrogen in the foreskin. Tens of thousands.

This made me really cry piteously for the men who have been shorn and continue to be.

For all of us, we all live here together.

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

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ORIGINAL: heartcream

Many people think circumcision removes nothing more than a little extra skin. The truth is that circumcision removes several critical components of male sexual anatomy.

I was with a bunch of friends this past weekend and this issue came up. Personally I feel circumcision is barbaric, cruel and detrimental to a peaceful civilization.

I was astounded to hear that there are tens of thousands of nerve receptors for estrogen in the foreskin. Tens of thousands.

This made me really cry piteously for the men who have been shorn and continue to be.

For all of us, we all live here together.

Well hell, come on down to South Carolina and "comfort" me.

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ORIGINAL: heartcream

When I read your responses here, you lot make me feel entirely sad for one thing.

Estrogen is connected to feelings. Having tens of thousands of these lopped off would as you might surmise, numb out the potential here and also create a more aggressive warring people.

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When I read your responses here, you lot make me feel entirely sad for one thing.

Estrogen is connected to feelings. Having tens of thousands of these lopped off would as you might surmise, numb out the potential here and also create a more aggressive warring people.

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Sexually transmitted diseases are a blessing for the human race, given to us by one of the mighty pagan gods - and thus by the his will facilitating Divine. All those who circumcise or with a circumcised penis, oppose this god's will and thus blaspheme; they ought to be dead.