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From: peg@linus.UUCP (Margaret E. Craft)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: THE CIRCUMCISION DECISION
Message-ID: <290@linus.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 12:11:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 25 12:11:40 1985
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Reply-To: peg@linus.UUCP (Margaret E. Craft)
Organization: The MITRE Coporation, Bedford, MA
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Both HMO's (Health Maintenance Organizations) that I dealt with when making
this decision recommended against it.  The newest studies show that there
are more problems involved in circumsizing than in leaving nature alone.

Everyone I know who has decided YES have admitted that the only rationale
was that son would "look like" father.  Well, adult genitals are so different
from kiddie ones, that I doubt that under-13-year-olds would notice that
detail...

The trend is toward noncircumcision, so the "looking like everyone else"
argument is also beginning to lose validity.  Maybe in 20 years or so
the practise will die a natural death.