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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, see the old threads on the medical benefits.   Even in the developed world, there are some -- including less vulnerability to STDs and other infections.    I could re-post the links, but they are easy to find.   They aren't huge, but they are concrete benefits.  No circumcised man I have know has ever seemed to have any kind of issue at all with not being sensitive enough down there.

I agree that you need to separate the issues with the circumcision with your issues with his family and Jewishness.  I am not Jewish, and married to a Jewish man who is partly Israeli, but mostly secular.   We circumcised.   He wanted it, and I wanted it.  It has health benefits.    There are "fundamentalist" Jewish strains just as there are in Christianity, Islam, and pretty much any other religion.    I don't know if you are white, but let's just say that you are, and that you married someone who was Chinese, or some other cultural identity.   You'd probably have the same type of cross-cultural issues.    (See My Big Fat Greek Wedding.)     Frankly, I think you need to get over it.   You knew he was Jewish and Israeli when you married him, right?   [b]Maybe you didn't undertand what that entails, but you should have.   So I'd suck it up and be less sensitive.   [/b]

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Thank you, yes I knew. But just as I'm sure you'd have a learning curve with Chinese culture or whatever, I did too. I was not expecting to discover that there is a developed democratic country that prohibits marriage on the basis of religion. Honestly, it seems pretty intense to me. I have come round to the place of understanding a little bit better how some live with these cognitive dissonances, but that doesn't mean it is something that I have to accept if it goes against my values.

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