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When the Sysmistress and I were preparing for the birth of our oldest boy, Flipper, we had a discussion with her OB/Gyn about whether or not we wanted the baby circumcised. The Sysmistress and the Doc were both for it, I was against. The following arguments were advanced:
Which brings us to this story. The Holy Prepuce is alleged to have miraculous powers, including, but not limited to this:
The Wikipedia article refers to the Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord, which is celebrated on January 1st. Excellent idea. We'll serve this for dinner. Come on over. The Mohel the merrier.
More information than you'd ever want to know here.
Them: An uncircumcised penis is hard to keep clean.
Me: Yeah. It's hard to brush kids' teeth too. Should we cut his lips off?
Them: It will look different than yours. This'll make it awkward to potty train.
Me: I hope that scale is the most differentiating factor. And puberty.
Them: There are a lot of nerve endings in the foreskin. As an adult, he will climax too easily.
Me: The ratio of assisted to solo climaxes would suggest that this is a Darwinian attempt at effective time management.
My objections were over-ruled.
Which brings us to this story. The Holy Prepuce is alleged to have miraculous powers, including, but not limited to this:
The Wikipedia article refers to the Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord, which is celebrated on January 1st. Excellent idea. We'll serve this for dinner. Come on over. The Mohel the merrier.
More information than you'd ever want to know here.
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1:40 PMI've heard about the climaxing-too-early-as-an-adult issue before...then I dated a guy who wasn't circumsized. Totally untrue.
4:50 PM
I'm with your wife and doctor. Sorry. Still love me?
5:26 PM
Pants - where were you when I needed you? I could've argued that the foreskin would've given him the samina of Hercules.
Brooke - You with my wife? Woo-hoo. You with my wife and the doctor? Gross. Too much back hair. On him.
5:28 PM
my friend works in HIV research, and they're finding that men in africa who are circumcised have 50% less chance of contracting HIV.
so i don't know if that changes anything, but that's a significant decrease in risk, so i am for it.
9:27 PM
Until this news about the risk of HIV infection being lower for for circumcised men, I was firmly against it. Hubby is cut, but we both felt it was just morally wrong to do - if there's no medically necessary reason for it and no religious reason for it (since we're athiests), it comes down to aesthetics, which is not a good enough reason to deny my son a more intense orgasm. If nipping the clitty hood were in vogue but would deaden my daughter's orgasms, would I do it? Hell to the no!
This latest data about HIV infection does give me pause, though.
10:13 PM
Correction: I'm with your wife.
11:18 PM
Kendra - I think we're able to swing slightly better hygiene, so I don't think that's much of a factor here. Kudos to your friend. Would you mind ansking if circumcision rates correlate to income level or education? Just wondering.
Tits - I'm with you in theory. But I caved.
Brooke - I know. She keeps mumbling your name as she takes her clothes off while she sleeps. Like I'm complaining.
10:13 AM
i will ask her. she has a blog (two actually- one personal, one about aids research) so you can visit her if you're interested.
her personal blog is the only one i know off hand, but i think it links to the other, if not in the sidebar, in one of the top three posts.
faith is here.
12:00 PM
I couldn't make up my mind about this while I was pregnant.
Lucky for me, it wasn't an issue.
5:02 PM
I forgot to mention how much I love you for tagging that post "my weiner."
11:20 PM
And NO ONE comments on the foreskin of Jesus circling Saturn.
Don't want to offend the birthday boy?
9:38 AM
You know, considering your progenies' hygiene ... I mean, toilet paper usage and all ... maybe Sysmistress was wise.
I'm just sayin'.
And quit being a jerk about Jesus. Or... or... shit, I can't use violence ... um ... never mind.
My throat hurts.
10:21 AM
In this day and age, I can't imagine a young man resenting his parents for not circumcising him. As a result, I am against the cut. If my boy were to want it to look different when he is older, he can do whatever he wants with it. It's his, after all, not mine.
11:13 AM
Ubie - I'm not trying to be a jerk about Jesus, just the asinine things done in His name. See, I even used a capital "H" on the pronoun.
Like I'm ascared of you, anyways.
1:47 PM
CUT IT OFF!
As reported on the Keith Olbermann network:
"Half of the men were randomly selected to be circumcised while the other half remained uncircumcised.
"After following the men for a year, the researchers found that for every 10 uncircumcised men in the study who became infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, only an estimated three circumcised men contracted the virus, the newspaper [the profoundly evil Wall Street Journal] reported."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8473838/
National Geographic seems to agree.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/07/0726_050726_circumcision.html
As a circumcised male I appreciated this part: In the study group, "62 percent of women would prefer circumcised partners."
As a father, why not tilt the odds in favor of your son?
Thanks,
booger
2:27 PM
The Africa study only proved epidemiologically what medical researchers already knew: the foreskin has a very high concentration of a type of cell (don't ask me which; google it yourself) that is highly susceptible to the HIV virus. In fact, the scientists conducting the Africa study were so sure of the cause of the infection-rate disparity that, as medical ethics protocol dictates (dicktates?), they ended the study immediately and publicized their findings.
Today's investment "tip": go long on scalpels.
1:10 PM
Doctor Histrionic:
I am not sure what your point is?
By my reading, the study did not prove and did not attempt to prove any proximal cause for the observed result.
Yet, you seem to suggest that this result was a foregone conclusion.
Perhaps the circumcised men engaged in less sex or different sex after their circumcision.
And, no I do not believe that this was an epidemiological study.
Epidemiological studies do not involve random assignment to treatment groups and as a result measure correlations.
And, as we all know, correlation does not imply causation.
This is the point that I believe that sysm was getting at, possible confounding variables.
Thanks,
booger
1:27 PM
Booger: remind me never to agree with you again.
I wasn't suggesting the results were a "foregone conclusion"; as I said, earlier studies had already reached a foreskin conclusion.
1:41 PM
Doctor Napoleonic:
Perhaps, if you were less elliptical in your comments those of us who agree with you would recognize it sooner.
Best Wishes for a Wonderful Holiday Season,
booger
2:02 PM
Yes, Dr. Sardonic, have a wonderful Christmas. Christmas. Christmas. Christmas.
Everyone must.
4:19 PM
merry christmas!
If I have any sons I plan on making TFG teach them how to bathe.
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