"PJ," I have ENORMOUS RESPECT for you!!
I have followed & Read your 'Posts for YEARS!!
I regard you to be one of the "Brightest, Most Articulate" FReepers on this extraordinary Website!!
I've NEVER checked your background; BUT, your comments & assertions about Male Circumcision are indicative of a HIGH DEGREE of "Misinformation!!"
I am a FULLY TRAINED & HIGHLY EXPERIENCED General Surgeon. I have a VAST Field of experience in Medicine, (& I LOVE what I Do!!)
While I would NEVER claim to "Speak For" ANY "Group" of my Patients, I can report to you a "Strong Sense" of the "Thoughts & Beliefs & Feelings" of the Many Thousands of patients I have "Dealt With!!"
I can Honestly Report that I have "Treated" about 1/4 Million "Patients" over the past 30 years!!
I'm Simply trying to say that "Circumcision" is NOT like "Cutting a Toenail!!"
The "Victim" of this "Procedure" is PERMANENTLY TRAUMATIZED!!=="Infant or Not"!!!
Take IT from an "Expert,"-----"Circumcision" is NOT "Benign!!"
"Circumcision" IS NOT EQUIVALENT to "Cutting One's Toenails!!!!"
I SAY THIS as One who has a CREDIBLE level of "Expertise!!"
Doc
You've worked on 250,000 broken Talleywhackers????!!! Dude, you need a break. Take a vacation (but not to the Washington Monument) and get your mind off that topic.
I'm Simply trying to say that "Circumcision" is NOT like "Cutting a Toenail!!"
But you did say is was like being Gelded. Let's compromise. Circumcision is somewhere between getting your fingernails clipped and getting Gelded....with it being WAY CLOSER to having your fingernails clipped.
The "Victim" of this "Procedure" is PERMANENTLY TRAUMATIZED!!=="Infant or Not"!!!
YUP! It's pretty much destroyed my life....Yawn!
I've just done some interesting Talleywhacker math. If you've worked on 250,000 broken Talleywhackers over the course of 30 years, that breaks down to about 8,000 Talleywackers per year. Lets assume you work about 50 weeks per year. That works out to appromately 160 Talleywhackers per peek or (based on a 5 day week) about 32 Talleywhackers per day. Therefore, if you work an 8 hour day, you have worked on about 4 Talleywhackers per hour or one every 15 minutes.
Now I don't know about you but it seems to me that working on a new Talleywhacker every 15 minutes could have a deleterious effect on one's mental balance. It could cause someone to become overly absorbed by Talleywhackers to the point where it could affect ones mental balance and make the victim unable to put Talleywhackers into the proper perspective.
Of course, I'm not talking about you. You seem to have kept the topic of Talleywhackers from becoming an obsession.