Posted on 06/21/2011 5:26:52 AM PDT by SJackson
Radical secularists, for whom Judaism is a target of choice, wish to portray religion as so barbarous that it excises any pleasure in sex, reducing copulation to a cold and sterile act. Talkbacks (11) The growing number of anti-Semitic caricatures associated with the attempt to ban circumcision in San Francisco is disturbing. These include the highly inflammatory “Foreskin Man” comic, depicting a superhero saving innocent boys from evil circumcisers, which The Jerusalem Post reports was produced by Matthew Hess, “one of the central backers of the anti-circumcision measures.”
Indeed, the attempt to ban circumcision in San Francisco smacks of a nefarious campaign to portray circumcision as genital mutilation. I debated Lloyd Schofield, the main man behind the ban, on CNN. I later asked him to debate me in public, where we would have more time, but after he sent a friendly email which implied that there was not much difference between our positions, he suddenly declined.
If the case against circumcision is so clear-cut, and it is a grievous assault on a harmless infant, then why decline the debate? Perhaps it is because the organizers know that in any debate, their attempt to correlate the excising of the male foreskin with the removal of the female clitoris will be shown up as an absurd lie. Female circumcision is all about removing a woman’s ability to experience pleasure during sex, and is a barbarous act of mutilation that has no corollary to its male counterpart.
In my book Kosher Sex, I demonstrated conclusively that Judaism celebrates the sexual, intimate and erotic bond between husband and wife, and attempts to portray circumcision as a method of denying a man’s sexual pleasure are ignorant.
San Francisco is supposed to be the city of live-and-let- live, even as it now betrays a curious attachment to the male foreskin, with its ludicrous attempt to punish its large Jewish community with a fine of up to $1,000 or one year in jail for honoring the oldest of all Jewish rituals.
When I lived in Western Europe for 11 years, it was common to hear attacks on circumcision and shechita coming together, as if there were some correlation between the humane slaughtering of an animal and the cutting of an infant’s foreskin. Sweden has a reputation of being a pretty laid-back nation, but it stiffens in the face of circumcision.
In 2001, when it enacted a draconian law requiring a medical doctor or an anesthesia nurse to accompany a registered circumciser, and for anesthetic to be applied to a baby beforehand, Swedish Jews and Muslims banded together to object. The World Jewish Congress condemned the law as “the first legal restriction on Jewish religious practice in Europe since the Nazi era.”
ALL THIS, of course, belies the medical facts. Circumcision has been proven to be the second-most effective means – after a condom – to stop the transmission of HIV-AIDS, with the British Medical Journal reporting that circumcised men are eight times less likely to contract the virus. Circumcision removes Langerhans cells in the foreskin, which have special receptors that may grant the virus access into the body.
Circumcision also significantly reduces the transmission of other STDs such as like genital herpes and syphilis, and lowers the risk of urinary-tract infection.
In addition, men who are circumcised have 100% immunity from penile cancer.
Male circumcision is also much healthier for women, reducing the risk of cervical cancer by at least 20%, according to a 2002 article in the British Medical Journal. Cancer of the cervix is due to the human papilloma virus, which thrives under and on the foreskin, from where it can be transmitted during intercourse.
So why the effort to ban circumcision? Simple.
Radical secularists, for whom Judaism is a target of choice, wish to portray religion as so barbarous that it excises any pleasure in sex, reducing copulation to a cold and sterile act.
This lie that religion frowns on sexual pleasure is widespread. In fact, deeply fulfilling sex is a must in Jewish law, which makes it a sin for a man to have sex with his wife without satisfying her first.
Judaism insists that sex be accompanied by pleasure as a bonding experience that leads to emotional intimacy.
Indeed, we Jews could teach even the sexually adventurous people of the Golden Gate City a thing or two about sex, the proof of which is that we alone, among all the nations of the world, are still here after thousands of years, due to the fact that our (circumcised) ancestors were pretty good at doing it.
Had Messrs. Schofield and Hess canvassed Jewish husbands and wives before they put the attempted circumcision ban on the ballot, they would have discovered that we Jews are doing just fine in the sexual department, and could really do without their bothersome assault on our ancient rituals and our privacy. Circumcised Jewish men are great lovers, and I would strongly advise Schofield and Hess to keep their noses in their own business.
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The Left has so many hang-ups.
But these Same friggin Idiots say nothing about the Muslims!!!!!!!!
Dad a marine who did not get one at birth....wished he had gotten one when he got jungle rot in Guadalcanal/bougainville. I believe they performed an adult circ at that time.
I need you all to know...that it has not negatively effected my performance nor pleasure 1 iota....the only effect I am told is that it slows one down....
and in the words of ‘the worlds most interesting man’ when question on speed dating... “I assure you, most women would not consider speed a virtue. ...”
Unless you had experienced sex with AND without, how can you say this for certain? (Just playing Devil's Advocate..heh)
"Sterile" is what the leftists, including their prominent sodomite wing, want all sex to be. "Brave New World," y'all.
I hear tell that ‘with’...is good for jackrabbits...but I can never know for real myself...nor do I yearn to know....
...and the left demonstrates its love of privacy rights again.
Oh, that is only for abortion....everything else they can regulate.
If appendixes were as easily accessible as foreskins, we’d probably get rid of them at birth as well. The fact that so many primitive societies practice circumcision is proof enough for me that it has a salutary practical purpose.
If you never had one, how do you know nothings’ been effected?
But I thought leftists were all immoral, sexually depraved, hedonists?
My wife and I married began dating when she was 27, and I wasn’t her first lover. I never asked her, but she probably had an uncircumcised experience. I am circumcised, and we are both very glad—she much prefers it. We all have what we have, but I’m happy with what I don’t have.
Nothing, no law, no edict, no nothing is ever going to stop Jews from doing the Bris Mila. It does not matter. The only way they could enforce such a law is to ban it in hospitals which would have no effect on Jews anyway since they use a Mohel. (that cartoon is very 1935-ish)
Are Mohels going to be illegal? Will they be thrown in jail? Then Jews will just go out of the city or even out of the State. But nothing is going to stop it. This whole thing is so farcical. How could anyone say that this is not interfering with the free exercise of religion?
I wish I had time in my busy life to worry about stupid crap like this. These people need to get a life and get a ‘real’ job.
“I need you all to know...that it has not negatively effected my performance nor pleasure 1 iota.”
But how would you know that since you were cut from birth?
Your post does not seem in any way responsive to mine. But whatever, have a nice day.
“But how would you know that since you were cut from birth?”
By the same logic you seem to imply, no one can say their their pleasure in sexual relations has not been affected by the choice of partner, since there are at least three billion potential partners they have not had experience with yet.
By the same token, one can never fully enjoy a T-bone steak because you just know the fillet at Ruth’s Chris is better.
>>> ...produced by Matthew Hess... <<<
Any relation to Rudolph?
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