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Written by Ralesk at 23 Jun 2004 12:43:58: Re: When in Rome...
As an answer to: Re: When in Rome... written by Jake at 23 Jun 2004 10:43:55:
>>>Parts of continental Europe are said to be at about 15-20%.
>>That sounds much higher than I’d expect. Say one in 5–8 people? How did you conclude that? And yes I’m aware you said parts, but which parts did you think (obviously not the very small muslim areas such as the European part of Turkey or BiH)?
>The figures and method used are from another gentleman. I haven't personally verified it. His method, which is admittedly not flawless, is to count circ'd vs uncirc'd profiles on sites such as 'outpersonals'.
>In Germany, for example, 23% were circ'd.That’d be highly unusual. If anything, people on such are just a very small sample of the whole country, and most possibly part of an exhibitionist fringe of the population. (This wording seems to imply that it be a conspiracy of sorts of these people, but I do not mean it that way.) Your average peasant from the fields / worker of the city is with quite a high probability not in this sample and very, very likely not circumcised unless Jewish (or Turkish, in the case of Germany). Which is still not much.