Circumcision violates human rights?
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Oh boo hoo!
Circumcision is superfluous surgery but not a violation of 'human rights.'
As two millennia of Jewish survival and the erotic writings of circumcised persons clearly demonstrate infant loss of foreskin doesn't interfere with sexual functioning or pleasure.
But it does give people who need to make more substantive changes in their own life a place to put the blame other than themselves.
Every day for the past six months, John has been wearing two 6oz metal ball-bearings attached by straps to the end of his penis. He's not a fetishist; he's on a course of DIY plastic surgery to correctwhat was, in his view, a terrible wrong inflicted on him when he was a baby. John was circumcised and he wants his foreskin back.
See also Circumcision as a crime.

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Posted by: ruairidh | October 1, 2005 09:59 AM