[ ARC forum 2 ]
Written by Jim at 11 Jan 2003 00:35:59: Doctor, perhaps you could answer some questions
As an answer to: Re: Psychological Effects of Circumcision written by Robert Levy, MD, Phd at 10 Jan 2003 21:35:33:
You have stated that you have been in medical practice for thirty years, so that would put your age somewhere in the mid-fifties to early sixties, right? You've been a victim yourself. Now, you've already claimed no psychological effects personally, but what about physically? Have you not noticed over the years that your sensitivity has changed considerably? If so, wouldn't it make sense to you that the same thing has happened to others?
As a Jewish man, you certainly had no sayso in what happened to you as a baby, and no doubt if you have sons, you did the same thing to them that your parents did to you. But what about the guys who aren't Jewish? Without religious reasons, many of their parents have had them genitally altered also. Do you think that they won't question their parents' motives for doing so? Contemporary medical evidence has concluded that there are no compelling reasons to remove the foreskins of infants, yet it is still being done. Don't you believe that when these kids discover the evidence, they'll be questioning the parents again? Do you think they have cause to be upset?