# Some reflexions

> Written by Yanik C on 14. September 1999 at 04:25:23:

> If you go to AltaVista, Yahoo and others and look for web pages
> about circumcision, you will have pages about religion (including
> the very Christian Circumcision of the Christ) or pages about the
> war done by some groups against routine infant circumcision. If
> you try to find information about adult circumcision, you are
> out of luck, I think this site is the only one on the net that
> adresses specific problem of male aldult circ.

> On the pro/anti neo-natale circumcision, I am definitively
> on the anti side. I strongly beleive that each human is
> entitled to his/her own integrity and unless strong medical
> reasons, something as definitive as circumcision should not
> performed unless the person mostly interested could give his
> accord. This is true for "civilian" routine circumcision but
> for me it should be true even for Jews and Muslim. Pospone
> the operation until he is capable to give his accord.

> So good, so well, so what happens to adults who have to make
> a decision for themselves? No clues. If we compare various date
> I have picked in this site, something like 8% of persons have ou
> could have potential problem. At some extreme, a story from Germany
> explained that in some school, the school physician recommended the
> circumcision for 50% of the examined boys. If I understand well the
> scope of the problem, if you are border line, the advice of the physician
> will be more according his/her own beliefs than based on actual scientific
> facts.

> Answers:
> - Re: Some reflexions RS 24.9.99 (0)

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