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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Nov 22 13:02:10 2004, in response to Re: Street Brawl, posted by R143 on Mon Nov 22 10:45:10 2004. I do agree with you that it is an unnecessary operation. In England, and most of Europe, only about 3% of men/boys are circumcised at birth. Circumcision (for non-religious reasons) started in this country in the Victorian era as a "cure" for masturbation. Of course that was silly, and that didn't work. This country was very conservative and puritanical (you think it's bad now!) back then, so people believed it was a good idea. When that didn't work, I guess they had to find another reason for doing it (no one would want to admidt that they had a piece of their penis cut off for no good reason). Doctors came up with the "health" reasons for it, and the men without their foreskins breathed a sigh of relief that they didn't loose it in vain. Of course those merits have also been deemed unnecessary. I read somewhere that a doctor charges around $200 to $300 for performing the routine baby circumcision, and they can do many a week. That's $20,000 to $40,000 of income by the end of the year, of course that's not something doctors would want to give up for an operation that lasts a few minutes, but permanently alters the body of the boy he did it too.As noted, in modern society there is no benefit for routine circumcision on baby boys. Although the frequency of the operation lowered in Canada and England (England and Canada did it as much as the US did back in the 40's and 50's), it was harder to catch on to the fact that it's a needless operation here in the US for some reason. Maybe the doctor lobby was stronger. Currently, it's rarely done in any other country but this one for non-religious reasons. And it's become much less widespread here too. I think the last time I read any stats on it, the west coast had the least done (something like 30% of boys had it done), the East coast was something like 60%, and it was the most in the midwest. |
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