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From: jeff@rtech.ARPA (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Clitoridectomy--coming full circle
Message-ID: <258@rtech.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 04:11:29 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 25 04:11:29 1985
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> > [History majors do have their uses.]
> > I remember a prolonged discussion in this newsgroup on clitoridectomy
> > sometime last year.  I wonder if this current discussion will end
> > up talking about the painfulness of male circumcision, to the
> > complete neglect of women's issues.
> > 
> > aMAZon @ AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL; ihnp4!ihuxf!features
> > 
> 
> It seems that with the exception of the jewish people the practice
> of male circumcision (can there be female circumsision per se?)
> is generally done to the very young (often newborn) ...
> 
> jeanette zobjeck

I believe that Jews circumcise their sons eight days after birth.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
aka Swazoo Koolak