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Re: Rubbish...How Apt!

Written by AJ at 18 Jul 2003 16:43:52:

As an answer to: Re: Rubbish...How Apt! written by Rood at 18 Jul 2003 02:48:28:

>Rubbish is right. That's where most of them go.

You would rather you had the opportunity to take your foreskin home in a jar? Why?

>As for those men who have willingly chosen genital mutilation, I am well aware of the fact. Not a few of them are so enthralled with genital mutilation that they have opted for more than one.

Not a few? I would suggest it a vast, vast minority. Indeed there a lots of people out there that get their kicks from strange doings. But it's their bodies, so who are we to judge? What they do is no more strange that what, say, a nudist chooses do.

>One internet acquaintance of mine has had six!
>A recent regular at Fathermag is on number three, and he's contemplating a fourth.

Your point being?

>Oh, yes, AJ, your point of view has fine company.

Now you are trying to lump me in with the mulit-circ crowd? I have nothing in common with them. I'm just a guy that had a partial circumcision because stretching did not work and not a guy that gets horny over circumcision as your colleagues have suggested so often in the past.

>As for the feelings of certain of these men about genital mutilation, I'll have to refer you to the dictionary. As an intact penis is necessary to any normal act of sexual intercourse for both the male and the female involved in the act, anything less is a compromise.

From your perspective, perhaps. That is far from accurate to the majority though.

>Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary defines mutilation thusly: 1. to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts. 2. To deprive (a person or animal) of a limb or other essential part.
>Argue with Webster, not with me.

It's your application of the word given the context, Rood. It's wholly miselading from what the procudure actually is. Just as much as if I were to say "I had a foreskin trim". See?


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