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Posted by aem7 on Mon Nov 22 15:14:26 2004, in response to Re: Circumcision Re: Street Brawl, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Nov 22 14:31:17 2004. It doesn't make sense to circumcise boys routinely as a "preventative" medicine for a medical condition that only effects a very small percentage of boys/men.I would agree with you that it's really not something you want to do unless you were developing infection problems. But then, it is also one of the most difficult external body parts to clean. You generally cannot clean inside the foreskin without hurting yourself, and frankly I think some parents are just too lazy/conservative to do it. Hence circumcision can be an attractive option for the parents. Here is an analogue in dentistry. In general, wisdom teeth only cause problems in a significant minority of adults. There are two failure modes: 1. mouth cavity may be too small for wisdom teeth; 2. wisdom teeth is hard to clean because of its location and can trap plague. However, most dentists recommend pre-emptive removal even for those people without apparent problems. Seems to me it is a lazyness measure. Easier to brush your teeth without wisdom teeth. Now, there's always the appendix, which is the opposite way round. Appendix are rarely preemptively removed, even though it can cause problems. So internists have bad lobby and densists have good lobby? I don't think so. I am not sure what the reason is, other than "custom". Perhaps someone ought to do some failure rate analyses on these components. Chris I did have a question for you. You seem rather bitter about this whole issue. Is this because you had been circumcised against your will? And if so do you think it has affected your sex life? I have heard an account by someone who was circumcised as an adult and he said it took away an entire dimension from his sex life, but I would ideally like to hear from more people re: this issue. Like I said in my earlier post, I don't think it affected me -- but then, you gotta think that, eh? AEM7 |
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