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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (201584)	9/9/2006 7:33:50 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 281500

There's actually a movement in western medicine away from routine circumcision. The Roman Catholic Church has a position that it shouldn't be performed but I suspect priests find it an unappealing Sunday sermon. We have made substantial progress in addition to the use of anaesthesia; we don't use sharp rocks as the instrument of choice. That's a good thing. Personally, I don't feel mentally scarred or traumatized for life. Same here. I haven't said anything to my sons about why I chose the procedure for them. In retrospect, my only rationale was my parents did it to me. Tradition! It does seem odd to me that the practice is more popular in the US than it is in Europe given that most Americans came from Europe [particularly pre-WWII]. jttmab