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I'm torn on this one (no pun intended). On the one hand, circ is an extremely.common practice and absolutely necessary for Jews. Presumably one doesn't want to force all Jews to leave SF. On the other hand, just as the infant in the womb has no choice, it's all the mother’s choice to abort the baby, the newborn male child is also helpless to choose. And it is genital mutilation. All this stuff about HIV is nonsense. The circ does decrease sexual pleasure for the male and also for the woman.

The circ does decrease sexual pleasure for the male and also for the woman.

I absolutely DO NOT WANT to know how you think you know this.

Meanwhile, parents continue to make choices for their children, as they always have done.

And the nanny state tries to substitute itself as the only true parent, as nanny states always have done.

Actually, they have evidence that circumcision does reduce the risk of a man getting HIV during normal sex (IIRC, it is a large decrease in risk). The folds of skin trap the virus apparently. As with many Jewish traditions, circumcision is a health based practice as is Kosher. In Leviticus, work practices for mold remediation were spelled out and the Rabbi acted as the consultant on mold issues.
34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;

35 And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house:

36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:

37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;

38 Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:

39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;

40 Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:

41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place:

42 And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.