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  • Re: eliminating circumcision

    Sure, an adult over 18 can choose. No one should have one done who cannot consent to it. Period. End of story. We don't allow female circ in this country. And what right does anyone have to tell a man his own cutting is less extreme than female circ. Think for a minute. Why does the ONLY surgery we routinely perform on infants involve... the ...
    Posted to Human Nature by LarsT on August 14, 2007

  • An Actual Circumcision

    I dare ANYONE to watch this and tell me this practice is acceptable. It is unbelievably barbaric, cruel, and psychologically sick. I also urge anyone with a friend considering having their children cut to watch this video. http://youtube.com/watch?v=XmX6RdRNoqk
    Posted to Human Nature by LarsT on August 14, 2007

  • Re: eliminating circumcision

    I'm going to re-post a comment from a couple of weeks ago regarding male circumcision, because for some reason that earlier posting behaved oddly (the number of listed viewings declined with time). -------------------- As a biologist, I find the debate about whether male circumcision is damaging to be frankly bizarre. Like every other part of ...
    Posted to Human Nature by songster on August 14, 2007

  • Circumcision and reporters

    Circumcision is simply wrong. Saletan has a long history of approving this barbarism - perhaps that's why he reported the least compelling study of genital sensation (the Kim research, studying only two points on the penis, neither of which was on the foreskin) but totally ignores the far more thorough Van Howe study (which found that, of the 19 ...
    Posted to Human Nature by eshu21 on August 6, 2007

  • circumcision, biology, and medicine

    As a biologist, I find the debate about whether circumcision is damaging to be frankly bizarre. Like every other part of the body, the genitalia have been shaped by strong selective pressures. Circumcision removes a substantial chunk of highly innervated genital tissue, so of course there are effects on sexual function and sensation. This fact has ...
    Posted to Human Nature by songster on August 2, 2007

  • Circumcision and Sexuality

    William Salatan has a history of writing inaccurate pro-circumcision pieces. It is increasingly well-known that many circumcised men who have not accepted their loss have an emotional need to deny that cutting off part of their penis resulted in a loss of any kind. Such men tend to: 1. insist that any son be circumcised. 2. argue that cutting ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Bobby on August 2, 2007

  • Prod, Sever, Re-Prod

    Once upon my 18th birthday, a urologist amputated the foreskin that prevented me from cleaning my only thinking head (at the time). To cut a long story short, sexual satisfaction was never same again. This study doesn't say one thing about overall sexual satisfaction or orgasm intensity -- just that the penis heads of circumcised and ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Calwen on July 31, 2007

  • Circumcision

    This is the second time William Saletan has written a pro-circumcision article on Slate in the face of contradictory evidence. The last time, he wrote how parents ''lovingly'' circumcised their children while minimizing the pain, danger and lack of utility of the practice. Many analysts have criticized the African Aids studies for their ...
    Posted to Human Nature by eshu21 on July 31, 2007

  • Circumcision

    Perhaps this test on a small group of men showed no difference, and for argument's sake I'll give the machine the benefit of the doubt. That still doesn't clear up every moral qualm I've ever had with circumcision. The biggest one being: it's not my penis to chop up! I know I'd be pretty darn ticked off if my parents had decided to slice off my ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Seeker on July 31, 2007

  • A few ideas (one from experience)

    A few different things came to mind, in part because I was in a similar situation years ago and ended up doing a little research to figure out what was going on... I was in a committed long-term relationship that went from the guy seeming to have a wild sex drive, over to him avoiding all physical contact. It wasn't until after I finally ended ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by kittycalbard on July 7, 2007
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