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Written by AJ at 11 Jun 2005 19:10:43: Re: Programme about Circumcision on BBC Television
As an answer to: Re: Programme about Circumcision on BBC Television written by Ivan at 11 Jun 2005 15:53:14:
>"perhaps more as a sexual freak show?" - but of course, that is what circumcision is.
How is it sexual Ivan? There may be one or two people out there that get their kicks out of the act, but I would suggest that they are in the minority. Some people get turned on by sheep, does that mean sheep are sexual, too?
>Only perhaps one man in a million will ever have a therapeutic need for circumcision, although many more will convince themselves that they have to.
I'm sure people that have it done for medical reasons would agree with your statement. The fact is that circumcision is often the suggested treatment by medically trained doctors (not the armchair variety that seem to inhabit a certain anti-circ, anti-jew board - *cough* Fathermag *cough*). Perhaps in America some doctors are too circ-happy, but I doubt that ist true for other parts of the world, where circumcision is not as routine as getting a hair cut or buying a gun.
>As a preventive measure, it is worse than useless because the likelihood of But don't kid yourselves - if it's not for cancer or BXO resistant to other treatments (amputations should be the last recourse), it's just body modification, in a class with scarification, pieercing and all the other faddish abuses of the body.
There may or may not be an arguement for preventative where kids are concerned, as mostly it is done because it's a cultural thing to do. Whatever the case it seems to me a bit odd putting infant circumcision in the same category as piercings.