Gentlemen - please snip your posts...
:-)
On 16 March 2015 at 15:22, Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Well these guys are a bit over the top, but I agree with their position
> on male circumcision. I was faced with this decision when my wife and I
> adopted our son. He was eleven months old and was uncircumcised. I was very
> reluctant to have it done to him at almost one year of age. Allegedly there
> is little pain when done on a neonate (yes, they scream bloody murder when
> it is done, but then they scream bloody murder when you change their
> diaper, so I don't know what that means), but at a years age their sensory
> system is fully functional. The medical benefits in a first world country
> are minimal at best. It reduces the incidence of penile carcinoma from rare
> to very rare and supposedly reduces the risk of acquiring HIV. This is
> accomplished by reducing the rate of other sexually transmitted disease
> that break down the mucosal barrier to viruses. Also, circumcision results
> in the toughening of the skin of the glans penis due to friction with
> clothing. These benefits were pretty minimal and to my mind were not worth
> it.
> The downside to circumcision: any surgical procedure has a small risk;
> supposedly there is a loss of sensitivity during sexual intercourse, but
> this is speculative, I don't know any way to measure that objectively.
> Some consider it mutilation, but that is a bit extreme. It is more of a
> modification.
> On balance I didn't think the benefits were worth it.
>
> Charlie
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Leo Wesson <leowesson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > http://leowesson.smugmug.com/2015/i-TC4Z4DP/0/O/150315LWW141315.jpg
> >
> > Thanks for looking!
> >
> > Leo Wesson
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> > 817.733.9157
> > www.leowesson.com
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