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				Re: What's the difference between circumcision and being uncircumcised? - 
            
          
		
		
				
		
				December 31st 2009, 01:22 PM
			
			
			
		 
               
 
Being intact is better.  Being circumcised sounds weird to me.
 If you were an Egyptian man dating a girl who wasn't circumcised, all your friends would think that was strange and disgusting.
 
 It's worth remembering that no-one except for Jewish people and Muslims would be circumcised if it weren't for the fact that 19th century doctors thought that :
 a) masturbation caused various physical and mental problems (including epilepsy, convulsions, paralysis, tuberculosis etc), and
 b) circumcision stopped masturbation.
 
 Both of those sound ridiculous today I know, but how that's how they thought back then, and that's how non-religious circumcision got started.  If you don't believe me, then google this: "A Short History of Circumcision in North America In the Physicians' Own Words".  Heck, they even passed laws against "self-pollution" as it was called.
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