Should Boys be Circumcised?

Should Boys be Circumcised?

Parents face so many difficult decisions when it comes to having a child: decisions about nursing, sleep patterns, discipline, teaching methods and, in the case of boys, whether or not to circumcise. In addition to being the most common surgery for males in the U.S., circumcision has been practiced in various cultures for centuries. Yet when it comes to the health and best interest of your newborn, is circumcision the way to go?

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NOCIRC is Now 'Desperate' in Defeat! Please - No More Lies!
- From Dr Brian Morris
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By Dr. Brian Morris - Professor of Molecular Medical Sciences

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  • DevilDocRetired
    Morris' verbal Repetition Compulsion?

    Again your word 'Lies." You have delusions of adequacy and degreade yourself. So, you don't deserve the same even at your level - though it does give a break in trying to reach it. You seem to be in a parallel universe as an actor in a television science fiction series playing Capt. Twirp.

    You do not even know what a lie is. Your 'desperation' proves: "First one must deceive themselves."

    Here are 2 examples of lies. 40 years ago Kaiser Hospital in San Jose, California and the county's hospital that is now part of Stanford University's medical school told parents that they could not take their sons home unless they were circumcised because it was the law.

    - DevilDocRetiredUS August 20, 2008 2:03AM

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  • DevilDocRetired
    Morris needs help

    The inferences implied in your Response indicates you need a course in Logic and learn procedures involved in Differential Diagnosis. Your Master does not teach you well who, with you, should learn:

    When A=B and B=C thus A=C this does not mean A=D or A-E and so on.

    - DevilDocRetiredUS August 20, 2008 2:35AM

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  • Me2
    Circumcision

    The US is the circumcision capital of the world with around 80% of the global populations not practicing circumcision. The HIV incident in the US and other types of STD top most other countries including European cities with much higher populations than those of the US. There's no point in trying to blame the gay population because all countries have them.

    There are many professional people in the US who are circumcised including Morris and probably Bill Gates? lol. Their condition is their business but their positions shouldn't become a platform to justify their genital condition as being superior or advantageous and a place to struggle in keeping the old ways as has been the case for Queen Victoria and Kellogg where circumcision was a cure for blindness, stuttering, insanity, and a long list. It as it just goes on over here.

    The true reason for circumcision in North America during the time of Victorian prudery and anti male sexual attitudes was that of hindering and stopping teen masturbation along with the hope of degrading the male experience to a lower level with hopes that the would want less sex.

    This all sounds too simple, but Google the history of circumcision in North America.
    I challenge any circumcised male with Mr. Morris to be a part of this challenge, to have unprotected sex with a known carrier of HIV and other known STD's, and expect an OK outcome.

    I'm betting that it isn't going to happen, and the outcome would be equal to that of the non circumcised individual.

    Penile cancer is totally rare and is know to show up on circumcision scars, so this all becomes more of the same of the last century.

    - Me2CA August 26, 2009 6:53PM

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