Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!rutgers!clyde!cuae2!ihnp4!ihdev!dlr From: dlr@ihdev.UUCP (D. L. Ritchey) Newsgroups: sci.med Subject: Re: Circumcision Message-ID: <999@ihdev.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Oct-86 22:17:10 EST Article-I.D.: ihdev.999 Posted: Wed Oct 29 22:17:10 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Oct-86 22:27:27 EST References: <1014@vlsi.cs.cmu.edu> <388@maynard.UUCP> <730@valid.UUCP> <425@mit-amt.MIT.EDU> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 41 Reply-To: dlr@ihdev.UUCP (55224-D. L. Ritchey) Distribution: usa Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Keywords: Circumcision In article <425@mit-amt.MIT.EDU> henry@athena.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) writes: >In article <730@valid.UUCP> pete@valid.UUCP (Pete Zakel) writes: >>I sincerely doubt that the doctor who circumsised me thought of it as a ritual >>mutilation. And I hardly consider it inhumane. > >I sincerely wonder if it was thought of *at all*. I wonder if the >current practice has proceeded to the point that circumcision is >simply performed, with no thought as to why it's good or why it isn't >necessary. > >I'm sure my parents had no idea why circumcision was good or bad. >They're pretty average people, but I kinda wished they looked into it. >After all, the part that gets cut isn't getting cut off of THEM1 > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >Henry Mensch / / ..!mit-eddie!mit-athena!henry I am more interested in the response on the subject that a dental hiegenist in our Red Cross class on infant care gave to the arogant, obnoxious ass who masqueraded as the local pediatrician. When he suggested that it was laziness on the part of the parents who didn't want to spend the time teaching the child to clean himself, she responded: "I work in a dentist's office, and I can tell you how well they don't keep their teeth clean. How well do you think that they will clean down there? How many fathers even know how to clean the foreskin? How many fathers even have one?" D. L. Ritchey (Don) AT&T Bell Labs IH 6h-313 Naperville, IL (312) 979-6179 -- D. L. Ritchey (Don) AT&T Bell Labs IH 6h-313 Naperville, IL (312) 979-6179