circumcision...
Dig into the real roots of circumcision in the US. You'll find that American medical journals promoted it as a way of dulling sexual drive in males, and as a reliable method of curbing masturbation.

to quote an american physician from 1903... "It (self abuse) lays the foundation for consumption, paralysis and heart disease. It weakens the memory, makes a boy careless, negligent and listless. It even makes many lose their minds; others, when grown, commit suicide.... Don't think it does no harm to your boy because he does not suffer now, for the effects of this vice come on so slowly that the victim is often very near death before you realize that he has done himself harm"

Sad truth is it's just habit, and a good income for doctors.

People regularly defend the act of mutilation by saying "It's cleaner"... Sure. If you want to go cutting off protective mucus-secreting membranes... why not take baby's eyelids off at the same time??

Resident Loon.. "I'm completely skeeved out and feel my skin crawing mightily." Yep... that's how I feel when I imagine some bastard trying to steal my foreskin....

And Flake? I concur. ;o)
( Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Mon 18 Jun 2007, 19:42, Reply)