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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: circumcision vs. infection
Message-ID: <317@unc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Apr-85 05:31:47 EST
Article-I.D.: unc.317
Posted: Thu Apr  4 05:31:47 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Apr-85 04:03:54 EST
References: <1343@decwrl.UUCP> <530@cyb-eng.UUCP> <gloria.1071>
Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
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In article <gloria.1071> colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
>["You beast!  Take your cap off when you meet a lady!"]
>
>> > Grown men can get nasty infections and end up needing to be circumcised.
>> Can anyone document this one?
>
>It happened to an elderly relative of my wife -- the infection, not the
>circumcision.  No, he didn't keep it clean.  She says most men (in her
>experience, such as it's been) don't.
>-- 
>Col. G. L. Sicherman
>...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel

Let me add that circucision is probably no more painful than ear-piercing.
Probably less so, since circucision only cuts skin, while ear-piercing
goes completely through the flesh.

If you reject circumcision because of its pain, you probably should not
pierce your daughter's ears, either.

	Frank Silbermann