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Here are my thoughts on this procedure:
1) Although I believe most cirumcision to be unnecessary genital mutilation and abuse of a helpless infant, it's good that some medical good can come out of people who have practiced it out of their own ignorance and tradition.
2) There is a dark, dark side of me which believes that in light of this information doctors may soon advocate male circumcision as "medically necessary" for their own gain: namely, offering the "service" of use of infant foreskins for burn patients. They'll be sacrificing a part of an infant (without his consent because he's too young to give it) for the "greater good."
Perhaps they could call it the Baby Draft.
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great find, scott
this kinda shit is why i stopped writing fiction -- the weirdmobile of everyday reality moots it
can there be a more profound statement of the true relationship of the male to the female than this?
the torture of defenseless baby boys heals the face of a girl
their misery -- coerced -- permits her painlessness
and the princess from her trance? � it is the blood of ten million heroes that wakes her � if you listen hard you can hear them screaming
god help us if the whole universe is this way -- no wonder the gnostics ran to their caves and washed their hands of the planet
if you�ve ever worked with burn patients, you understand the agony they endure, especially during debridement and grafts
i can�t find it in me to begrudge this girl, or any other person, a sparing of such trauma
but who will guard the sons of the nation?
circumcision done in ignorance is no offense, because we�re all ignorant -- but circumcision done for profit, or for reasons of occult power and control � that is a terrible transgression against the weak
in this i am very much struggling with my rage, and my urge to retribution, even though i know that vengeance is not mine to take
i�m trying hard, very hard
in the meantime, to those who raise the knife knowingly to baby boys: you see me coming, you better run
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> great find,scott
Actually, it was Neil's find - he's done a great job sending in stories.
Scott
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Ya know, if someone was to ask me to donate my foreskin, while I am still alive, I might well do it especially if I knew it would help a burn victim. But stealing it before I was too young to decide, and compromising my sex life in the balance, is not an option. Does it ever occur to these people that, if they waited until I was full-grown instead of cutting while I was an infant, they would get much more usable tissue?
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just guessing, but i suspect that the foreskins of infants have physical properties, such as cellular elasticity, that render them (oops)especially useful in this medical context
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I was just told today that women should be *loudly encouraging* circumcision, because it makes the penis cleaner and more pleasant for them...
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