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BadNick · 01-09-2006, 11:30 AM

I don't believe there is any recent scientific reasoning to support benefits of male circumcision, but I still don't consider it "abuse"; though it is a religious ritual for sure and I think it fits "ritualistic mutilation".

Most of my friends cringe when I tell them about this ...but my two year younger brother and I were born in Austria in 1949 and 1951 to Catholic parents and circumcision was not all that common or generally done to all. When we came to the U.S. and were being examined by the pediatricians of the day back in the mid 50's, they recommended that my brother and I be circumcised. So I had it done when I was almost 10 years old. Other than the potential pain and suffering of which I barely had any of that, I think I prefer mine to be circumcised, though I have never lived as an adult with mine in the OEM version.

I never heard about this variation until the recent news in NY State about one of the orthodox Jewish variations on circumcision. I found it quite odd that their ritual involves the moyle sucking the bloody wound of the baby ...maybe I'm weird for even thinking that's weird?! But it's in the news since apparently one moyle could have transmitted herpes to a couple of babies by this procedure.

my edit: when my two boys were born, now they're 9 & 10yo, we had them circumcised at home by a moyle even though I'm not Jewish and while my wife is of Jewish heritage, her family is absolutely NOT religious at all. We thought we wanted it done and it was safer doing it at home.

01-09-2006, 11:30 AM	#15 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	I don't believe there is any recent scientific reasoning to support benefits of male circumcision, but I still don't consider it "abuse"; though it is a religious ritual for sure and I think it fits "ritualistic mutilation". Most of my friends cringe when I tell them about this ...but my two year younger brother and I were born in Austria in 1949 and 1951 to Catholic parents and circumcision was not all that common or generally done to all. When we came to the U.S. and were being examined by the pediatricians of the day back in the mid 50's, they recommended that my brother and I be circumcised. So I had it done when I was almost 10 years old. Other than the potential pain and suffering of which I barely had any of that, I think I prefer mine to be circumcised, though I have never lived as an adult with mine in the OEM version. I never heard about this variation until the recent news in NY State about one of the orthodox Jewish variations on circumcision. I found it quite odd that their ritual involves the moyle sucking the bloody wound of the baby ...maybe I'm weird for even thinking that's weird?! But it's in the news since apparently one moyle could have transmitted herpes to a couple of babies by this procedure. my edit: when my two boys were born, now they're 9 & 10yo, we had them circumcised at home by a moyle even though I'm not Jewish and while my wife is of Jewish heritage, her family is absolutely NOT religious at all. We thought we wanted it done and it was safer doing it at home.