colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (04/02/85)
["You beast! Take your cap off when you meet a lady!"] > > Grown men can get nasty infections and end up needing to be circumcised. > Can anyone document this one? It happened to an elderly relative of my wife -- the infection, not the circumcision. No, he didn't keep it clean. She says most men (in her experience, such as it's been) don't. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel
fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) (04/04/85)
In article <gloria.1071> colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes: >["You beast! Take your cap off when you meet a lady!"] > >> > Grown men can get nasty infections and end up needing to be circumcised. >> Can anyone document this one? > >It happened to an elderly relative of my wife -- the infection, not the >circumcision. No, he didn't keep it clean. She says most men (in her >experience, such as it's been) don't. >-- >Col. G. L. Sicherman >...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel Let me add that circucision is probably no more painful than ear-piercing. Probably less so, since circucision only cuts skin, while ear-piercing goes completely through the flesh. If you reject circumcision because of its pain, you probably should not pierce your daughter's ears, either. Frank Silbermann
cm@unc.UUCP (Chuck Mosher) (04/04/85)
In article <unc.317> fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) writes: > >Let me add that circucision is probably no more painful than ear-piercing. >Probably less so, since circucision only cuts skin, while ear-piercing >goes completely through the flesh. > >If you reject circumcision because of its pain, you probably should not >pierce your daughter's ears, either. > > Frank Silbermann It is roughly equivalent to lopping off your earlobe, except that there are a lot more nerve endings. Frank, I wish you would confine your responses to those areas in which you have *some* knowledge, and be very careful about posting to a group which is generally concerned with discussing one's children and related issues, since you are single and presumably don't have any children (at least you never bring them to school :-) ).
rsellens@watdcsu.UUCP (Rick Sellens - Mech. Eng.) (04/09/85)
In article <317@unc.UUCP> fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) writes: > >Let me add that circucision is probably no more painful than ear-piercing. >Probably less so, since circucision only cuts skin, while ear-piercing >goes completely through the flesh. > >If you reject circumcision because of its pain, you probably should not >pierce your daughter's ears, either. > > Frank Silbermann I'm not sure which would be more painful, but most civilized people would not pierce their daughter's ears until the daughter said she wanted them pierced. I think the question is more concerned with trauma than pain. If you want something done then the pain is reduced to simple annoyance. Rick Sellens UUCP: watmath!watdcsu!rsellens CSNET: rsellens%watdcsu@waterloo.csnet ARPA: rsellens%watdcsu%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa
paulsc@tekecs.UUCP (Paul Scherf) (04/10/85)
In article <1223@watdcsu.UUCP> rsellens@watdcsu.UUCP (Rick Sellens - Mech. Eng.) writes: >I'm not sure which would be more painful, but most civilized people would >not pierce their daughter's ears until the daughter said she wanted them >pierced. I think the question is more concerned with trauma than pain. >If you want something done then the pain is reduced to simple annoyance. Now wait a minute! I was circumcised when I was very young (without being asked first (-: ), and I don't even remember the pain. (I don't even remember remembering the pain when I was younger. (-: ) How many men on net.kids, who were circumcised when they were infants, remember anything about the circumcision? Paul Scherf, Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon, USA, paulsc@tekecs.UUCP
presley@mhuxj.UUCP (Joe Presley) (04/11/85)
> How many men on net.kids, who were circumcised when they were infants, > remember anything about the circumcision? How many men on net.kids, who were circumcised when they were adults remember anything about the circumcision? Can you spell PHIMOSIS? :-) -- Joe Presley (mhuxm!presley)
fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) (04/14/85)
In article <watdcsu.1223> rsellens@watdcsu.UUCP (Rick Sellens) writes: >> >>Let me add that circucision is probably no more painful than ear-piercing. >>Probably less so, since circucision only cuts skin, while ear-piercing >>goes completely through the flesh. >> >>If you reject circumcision because of its pain, you probably should not >>pierce your daughter's ears, either. >> >>Frank Silbermann >I'm not sure which would be more painful, but most civilized people would >not pierce their daughter's ears until the daughter said she wanted them >pierced. I think the question is more concerned with trauma than pain. >If you want something done then the pain is reduced to simple annoyance. > >Rick Sellens UUCP: watmath!watdcsu!rsellens I do see many infant girls with pierced ears. In any case, compared with the trauma of birth, the trauma of circumcision is minor (unless, perhaps, an incompetent doctor botches the job). Frank Silbermann