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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (201508)	9/6/2006 7:58:28 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

For ourselves, but we don't demand anybody else do it. I briefly played around with the idea of becoming a moile, the person who does this. Doesn't pay well, but you get a lot of tips. Maybe you could make wallets? It could become the next teen fad. You might think with all the joking and association of circumcision with Judaism that it's a practice peculiar to that faith. But it's a fairly common practice in the US with regions having different participation rates. The practice of circumcision of males dates back many thousands of years, but only in the last 50 years, since World War II, has the rate been consistently high.19 Traditionally, this procedure has been performed by either the OB or FP who delivered the infant and until recently was performed routinely without the benefit of anesthesia or analgesia. There also has been wide variation in the rate of circumcision by region: Midwest, 80.1%; Northeast, 69.6%; South, 64.7%; and West, 34% (1994 data; personal communication from National Center for Health Statistics). The low rate in the West probably reflects the large percentage of Asians and Hispanics, who do not typically practice circumcision, as well as changes in insurance coverage for the procedure. ... pediatrics.aappublications.org Maybe you don't even have to become a moile to make wallets. It looks like there would be a large and contintuing supply in the mid-west alone. You could even ship the pieces to China for assembly [little hands and fingers]. jttmab