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It gets worse.

Written by Paul B. at 04 Aug 2002 13:01:26:

As an answer to: Re: BTW written by Rood at 04 Aug 2002 05:30:18:

> There is something else at work in cases such as this, as a "tight" foreskin has nothing to do with it. It is purely irrational behaviour. I'm not sure a psychiatrist could understand the motivation. Shouldn't such behaviour have a medical name?

Munchausen's syndrome variant - self-mutilation by proxy. By no means is it unknown - take a look!

Causes? Many and various, but I'd hazard childhood abuse is a pretty constant factor.

Abuse - of course "RIC" is that too!




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