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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reason a lot of non-Jews go to mohels is because they have a lot of experience and do the circumcision more quickly and less painfully than the average hospital procedure.  That's why a lot of famous people like Queen Elizabeth and Sandra Bullock have had their boys circumcised by mohels.[/quote]

Huh?  Queen Elizabeth used a mohel to circumsize Prince Charles?  Where on earth did you get that information from?  I'd love to know.  Mainly because routine circumcision in the UK -- like the vast majority of the rest of the world beyond the US -- simply DOESN'T HAPPEN.  The only reason it remains relatively common in the US (though declining) is for cultural reasons.  In the UK the only circumsized kids are those who need it for medical reasons (eg a tight foreskin), or those who do it for religious reasons.  Outside of that, in the 30 years I lived there I never heard of a single case EVER of anyone circumsizing to look like daddy or because of perceived potential risks in the future.  At school, it was the one circ'd Jewish kid that was teased (a little) by the boys in the shower room for everyone else having an intact penis was NORMAL.

I'll add, aside from a cousin who had a tight foreskin and needed a medical circ, I also neverheard of anyone having complications from keeping their foreskin.

So bearing that in mind, I'd be extremely surprised to find definitive proof for that statement about Queen Elizabeth.  While the Royal Family do sometimes do things a little differently than the rest of the country it would be strange to go so against the grain on that one, and especially to use a Jewish Mohel when she is head of the Church of England.[/quote]

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