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To: Pan_Yans Wife
Don't you mean that it is well known that those who have their sons circumcised are circumcised themselves?

I'm not entirely clear on what you're getting at, but certainly the very nature of a "custom" is that it is something that tends to be passed down from one generation to the next. As for the fathers, I don't see how it modifies anything I said since the fathers were almost 100% circumcised as infants themselves.

26 posted on 01/28/2006 7:53:38 PM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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To: AntiGuv
According to the bible, God ordered it. I don't understand why really as from a worldly point of view it does sound barbaric.

Circumcision was routine in US hospitals until lately. I had my son circumcized, then all the brouhaha started over it in the last 10 years or so, thanks Dr. Dean, and I started feeling guilty, so I asked him if it bothered him. He said it didn't bother him.

Now one grandson wasn't circumcized, and got a very nasty infection when prepubescent. He ended up in the emergency room and they asked my daughter if she had taught him to clean himself properly. How are you supposed to know to teach your male child that if somebody doesn't tell you?

It gets more personal, but I would prefer a circumcized man for a marriage partner, because I think there is a lesser chance of passing on that virus that causes cervical cancer.

37 posted on 01/28/2006 8:13:29 PM PST by Aliska
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