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Written by Richard at 19 Dec 2001 23:25:13: FAQ ideas
As an answer to: About my Circumcision - plus a website faq! written by AJ at 19 Dec 2001 20:49:35:
>Circumcision FAQ
>Please forgive any typos that appear throughout.
>ThanksThanks AJ for writing about your experience. I have to say I'm not persuaded to your point of view but it was interesting and enlightening to read, and I do respect that you took your decision about surgery as an adult who's entitled to do so. I do think it's VERY misleading to say on your page that stretching is portrayed as a "miracle cure" - most of the posts here, especially mine, have stressed that *patience and gentleness* are the way forward and that there is *no immediate solution*.
I do think we should have a FAQ but what I usually understand by a forum FAQ is something that evolves from the shared thoughts of regulars who are mildly annoyed by newbies coming along and asking the same things repeatedly. My suggestion was to have something like "Yes, your foreskin is supposed to retract fully and glide back and forth during sex" and "yes, smegma is normal, offensive to some, but essentially harmless" and that kind of thing.
However, I doubt whether we'll manage to get enough agreed info to set such a thing up here.
Richard (fellow Brit - and I've had the same dismissive attitude from a doctor who denied there was a problem)