Fifth - "There is a strong indication that the recent attempted ban was motivated by racial and religious intolerance" Lets see this evidence? Are you talking the letters written by the ADL? And if we're talking religious freedom, many Muslim sects believe that FGM is also >>
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Sixth - The simplest, and most honest, reason is that I am circumcised myself so it seems natural. It’s not something, in my opinion, that others should read too much into. - But it is. "Look like daddy" is the worst reason to circumcise a child. In my opinion.
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Seventh - "I simply thought, I had it done and I am fine, so my boys should also have it done" - What's your comparison? You had it done and you survived, you had it done and you still can have children, but you have no comparison. There are hundreds of boys who die of this >>
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8th - It really isn’t different from the many things parents indirectly impose on their children in the early years. - it is VERY VERY different. There is nothing else parents impose on children that cannot be undone. Don't want to eat broccoli as an adult, stop eating it. >>
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9th - "At no point did I think, I’ve had a piece of my penis removed and so I must punish my son by inflicting the same upon him" and "The simplest, and most honest, reason is that I am circumcised myself so it seems natural." not in those words, but you had a piece of your >>
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10th - "I could make a list of other things that my parents imposed on me that haunt me to this day. This is categorically not one of them." Good for you, it's the TOP of my list, it wasn't for years, not until I started meeting intact men as sexual partners. Then I realized >>
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11th - "So I researched it. I sought out comments by adult men who had had a circumcision later in life, and more importantly, by choice." How many of these men were making reports shortly after? Before any long term issues set in? More to the point, what is the effect of >>
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12th - 'One comment, though, drew my attention. The writer said that all four of his siblings had been circumcised but that he hadn’t, and that he had always felt “discomfort as a child”.' One story, I can show you hundreds, infact look at the men who responded here, myself >>
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13 - "circumcised men have an up to 60% lower risk of getting HIV from infected women." Blatantly false, first they didn't actually know who was sleeping with infected partners in this study, second because circumcision needs to heal, the men couldn't have sex for 10% of the >>
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2> study, throwing off the numbers (since the men left intact could). They also made no attempt to determine and exclude non sexual transmission, which is 1 in 5 cases in that area of the world, and the difference they found 1.3%. 2.5% of the intact men 1.2% of the cut men >>
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3> got HIV during the study. That number may have flattened out, say if the circumcised men were having less sex and started having more, as partners changed, they have no idea, they just attributed everything to circumcision.
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