Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Last year there was a court ruling in Germany that circumcision of minors was harmful, and a violation of a child's rights. It has not been followed up as yet.

In the US 18 states have removed it from allowable procedures for Medicaid. That is expected to bring a large fall in procedures.


There is also a bill before Congress to give boys the same protection as girls regarding circumcision.

Entitled the "Federal Prohibition of Genital Mutilation Act of 2013"

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, to amend the Female Genital Mutilation Act of 1996 (a) so that boys, intersex individuals, and nonconsenting adults may also be protected from genital mutilation; (b) to increase the maximum punishment of offense to 14 years imprisonment, (c) to include assistance or facilitation of genital mutilation of children or nonconsenting adults as an offense, and (d) to prohibit persons in the U.S. from arranging or facilitating genital mutilation of children and nonconsenting adults in foreign countries.


SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE

This Act may be cited as the "Federal Prohibition of Genital Mutilation Act of 2013".

male circumcision is (a) pretty much painless when done at 8 days old per jewish practice, (b) a good "healthy option" and (c) i am told many women prefer their men that way ...... all good reasons

finally, it is of course nearly always a parental choice

Funny, I have been told by women that they prefer it the other way. Health benefits have been disproved. Parental choice has nothing to do with it. Why not mutilate children in other ways if it is parental choice. If it is ruled illegal in the future then parental choice won't come in to it.

like ear piercing?

health benefits - i.e. easier/better hygiene - are a matter of fact not hypothesis

Get back to work.

like practice my putting on the carpet?
actually i'm busy thinking how to avoid a really dull scanning job

Understood, Always enjoyed the putting aspect of golf myself... so please carry on in that case -):

i putt at a radiator pipe, so good small target from about 10' ..... need to groove a tech adjustment made yesterday

Yes, and ear piercing if under an age of informed consent.

confess it's one of my pet hates
of course more surreptitious mutilation comes through parents feeding their beasts sweet and fizzy drinks and packets of crisps and the like

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circumcision for baby boy's or up to six month's after birth is said to give more protection againest AID's and other infection's., and as a bonus women like the look of it.

Haystack

Your wrong , women do prefer circumcision in men. You must have been taking to much older women who had a active sex life in the 1940's

There are serious doubts about that link. The US has one of the highest rates of curcumcision and is over 51%. However infection rates for HIV/AIDS are considerably higher than Europe.

and
My experience is from the 1960s onwards. I have been involved with a number of Jewish girls who did think it looked odd as their experience was different.

are you being somewhat cavalier in your outlook?

lol

aldwickk - 19 Sep 2013 17:59 - 29594 of 29598

circumcision for baby boy's or up to six month's after birth is said to give more protection againest AID's.

Was programme on freeview late tues night about this. Something like a 70% better chance of not getting aids if you have the OP. Something about the foreskin harbouring the infected disease/genes whatever.

Like it or not , the World was a safer place for the West when Saddam and Assad was in control .

Why, were they nipper snippers on the quiet or summat?