Extracts From sci.med Newsgroup (Jan 1997)

to ZADOZ (an anti circer)
My Mum would cry her eyes out, if she thought, she'd done something
wrong in my upbringing, but it wasn't her fault, she acted on the
best medical advice, which is still being given :
"[American Academy of Pediatrics]: "Care of the uncircumcised boy
is quite easy. "Leave it alone" is good advice."

Didn't your mother also act on the best medical advice at the time? :
"cut it off"...Maybe your Mum did other things to you which make you
angry with her, but RIC is surely a cultural ignorance, (call it abuse
if you want) not your Mum's fault.

I feel our experiences are poles apart, and yet they were both caused by
the same cultural ignorance. AND STILL this ignorance continues,
leave it alone,
or cut it off,
... does it not seem ridiculous to you that people adopt these
fanatical extremes, instead of simply checking boys in good time, so
that there is ample opportunity to consider the possibilities of
correction, before puberty and before any emergency decision is
required.

Robin Stuart