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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I hear about men being ashamed of being "different" [/b]and getting it done later in life. If you think your son will probably also want to marry Jewish maybe it's better he's cut for a womann who's already likely biased. It probably seems weird to be thinking that far ahead, but again, this decision will affect the rest of his entire life and if you feel strongly against it, I wouldn't cave in.[/quote]

You are hearing that from old uncut men, because circumcision was the rule when they were growing up. Uncut babies born this year are just the same as half of their peers.[/quote]

But not the same as most - an overwhelming majority - of thier Jewish peers.  [/quote]

People keep talking about this as though adult men don't have the option to get circumcised in this country.  All they have to do is decide to do it and their local urologist will be happy to comply.  It's also very easy to get insurance companies to pay for it.  Clearly they experience some benefit to having a natural penis, or else they could very, very easily fulfill their desire to "be like everyone else."

As an aside, I wonder what percentage of Jews are leaving their sons intact these days.  Yes, it's most assuredly a low number but my guess is that it is slowly increasing.  Otherwise, many areas of our country now have a higher percentage of intact boys than cut ones.  And of course, in almost every other country in the world, cut boys are very rare.

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Please stop hijacking this thread.  We get it.  You're anticircumcision.  Enough. Do you have an experience you want to share about YOUR personal experience with the matter?  [/quote]

Seriously. And my understanding is that Muslims do it too, and there are a lot of Muslim countries out there, so it's certainly wrong to claim that it is rare in almost every other country in the world. In fact a quick Wikipedia search says about 1/3 of men worldwide are circumcised. So whether you do or don't is up to you, I certainly don't care, but stop with the misinformation.[/quote]

Not the PP and I agree that there are a lot of circumcised men in the world. Just not in Western, developed countries outside of the US. The US is an anomaly in that way.[/quote]

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