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		<title>By: Mark Wills</title>
		<link>http://www.phdinparenting.com/2009/08/25/should-tradition-trump-reason-circumcision-and-more/#comment-178434</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wills</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I d NOT UNDERSTAND, why no one states that forget the worthless clean or who has orgasm arguments!  The fact is if you cut just the finger tips you still have full hand control yet you cut by 1/3rd the risk of cancer of the fingers!  OK now as for foreskin hum, I know 1st hand that when my girlfriend has me close my eyes and she just feather light touches caresses the foreskin alone, I get such erotic sensations its like a symphony orchestra.  And when she retracts my foreskin and does same featherlight touching of the exposed glans/head I can only feel the pressure but not even that as she is doing feather light method, so I am blind when eyes are closed, only my foreskin can see those sensations haha!   Anyhow I know a blind guy really blind, he at home reads brail via forskin as he was born without arms, so if he had been circumcised he would have zero other body parts that have such extraordinary HIGH DEFINITION RESOLUTION to read brail!!!

College Educated Women Talk frankly what the cut vs un-cut is really like to them!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu6y4CbJkEg&amp;NR=1

Mario Lopez tell Wendy Williams why Cut is No fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu_uYwDx_H8&amp;feature=related</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I d NOT UNDERSTAND, why no one states that forget the worthless clean or who has orgasm arguments!  The fact is if you cut just the finger tips you still have full hand control yet you cut by 1/3rd the risk of cancer of the fingers!  OK now as for foreskin hum, I know 1st hand that when my girlfriend has me close my eyes and she just feather light touches caresses the foreskin alone, I get such erotic sensations its like a symphony orchestra.  And when she retracts my foreskin and does same featherlight touching of the exposed glans/head I can only feel the pressure but not even that as she is doing feather light method, so I am blind when eyes are closed, only my foreskin can see those sensations haha!   Anyhow I know a blind guy really blind, he at home reads brail via forskin as he was born without arms, so if he had been circumcised he would have zero other body parts that have such extraordinary HIGH DEFINITION RESOLUTION to read brail!!!</p>
<p>College Educated Women Talk frankly what the cut vs un-cut is really like to them!<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu6y4CbJkEg&#038;NR=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu6y4CbJkEg&#038;NR=1</a></p>
<p>Mario Lopez tell Wendy Williams why Cut is No fun!<br />
<span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://www.phdinparenting.com/2009/08/25/should-tradition-trump-reason-circumcision-and-more/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/Fu_uYwDx_H8/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
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		<title>By: Mark Wills</title>
		<link>http://www.phdinparenting.com/2009/08/25/should-tradition-trump-reason-circumcision-and-more/#comment-175556</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wills</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>CAGEy, I am so glad you circumcised your son, as he will never get the errotic unique sensations only the forskinmakes distinct from the heads!  Ha ha!  My son will have way more fun masturbating then yours ever will!  ANd never will he need sex lube, save the mony son!  Enjoy Gods forskin, your lucky your mine and not cut so you may son enjoy the forskins errotic sensations luck you, and luck me, I have a forskin too!  I personally can say MASTURBATION with a FORSKIN feeles like the  thing is gluiding in a vagina that is of perfect fit, no real vagina is a perfect fit, but forskin makes it feel like that!  SO both masturbation and real vaginal sex is awsome.  Cut guys only get the friction pleasures, I get those and the gentile tactile feather touch erotics!  Cut guys have no tactile sensations that can be had a t the head area, ha ha!  Pro CIrc parents are like the ones that say what you don&#039;t know can&#039;t hurt you, but hey Radium and poison will hurt you, even though invisible!  So well cut guys have no idea that the forskin makes errotic pleasures, they think that oh we have orgasim and we have no forskin so no big deakl, ha ha, big deal is we Intact MEN HAVE orgasim too, but big deal is we have the separate types of errotics from the forskin!  If you cut a finger tip, then still you can do what a full finger can, just minus the tips extra fine sensations, so why not cut finger tips of you don&#039;t need them, pluss less germs without finger tips!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CAGEy, I am so glad you circumcised your son, as he will never get the errotic unique sensations only the forskinmakes distinct from the heads!  Ha ha!  My son will have way more fun masturbating then yours ever will!  ANd never will he need sex lube, save the mony son!  Enjoy Gods forskin, your lucky your mine and not cut so you may son enjoy the forskins errotic sensations luck you, and luck me, I have a forskin too!  I personally can say MASTURBATION with a FORSKIN feeles like the  thing is gluiding in a vagina that is of perfect fit, no real vagina is a perfect fit, but forskin makes it feel like that!  SO both masturbation and real vaginal sex is awsome.  Cut guys only get the friction pleasures, I get those and the gentile tactile feather touch erotics!  Cut guys have no tactile sensations that can be had a t the head area, ha ha!  Pro CIrc parents are like the ones that say what you don&#8217;t know can&#8217;t hurt you, but hey Radium and poison will hurt you, even though invisible!  So well cut guys have no idea that the forskin makes errotic pleasures, they think that oh we have orgasim and we have no forskin so no big deakl, ha ha, big deal is we Intact MEN HAVE orgasim too, but big deal is we have the separate types of errotics from the forskin!  If you cut a finger tip, then still you can do what a full finger can, just minus the tips extra fine sensations, so why not cut finger tips of you don&#8217;t need them, pluss less germs without finger tips!</p>
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		<title>By: Mark Wills</title>
		<link>http://www.phdinparenting.com/2009/08/25/should-tradition-trump-reason-circumcision-and-more/#comment-175551</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wills</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Angie, are you kiding, I have seen it done with anestisia, and the baby shakes violently as they inject that needle into the pinus to numb it, nothing can numb a babies pinus, God is too smart, when you do EVIL you will have pain!  No numbing EVIL!  And wow you like em cut huh, so you do not care that the forskinmakes tones of errotic sensations unique to the forskin?  Yes if some idiot adult wants his cut, yes he should be unburdened of such joys permanently!!!  LIke I say if you are filthy rich and see no more happiness then poor people, you should circumcise away your wealth immediatly!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Angie, are you kiding, I have seen it done with anestisia, and the baby shakes violently as they inject that needle into the pinus to numb it, nothing can numb a babies pinus, God is too smart, when you do EVIL you will have pain!  No numbing EVIL!  And wow you like em cut huh, so you do not care that the forskinmakes tones of errotic sensations unique to the forskin?  Yes if some idiot adult wants his cut, yes he should be unburdened of such joys permanently!!!  LIke I say if you are filthy rich and see no more happiness then poor people, you should circumcise away your wealth immediatly!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Mark Wills</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark Wills</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Channa, thats Indian and Indians do not circumcise, Oh I gues your a Hindu orgin who was force converted 3oo years ago and into a mutilating faith:)  God says cursed are those who Mutilate the Body is the Temple of God! Ears hole get refiled, cuting your sons forskin robs him of the joys of masurbation at its best quality, and the forskin makes tingly pleasures thet you just distroyed !  yours son will no only have orgasims, but no added tingly errotic heaveny sensations to boot, glad its your son not mine.  My son now enjoys the extra forskin sensations and lucky son, I am a great dad!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Channa, thats Indian and Indians do not circumcise, Oh I gues your a Hindu orgin who was force converted 3oo years ago and into a mutilating faith:)  God says cursed are those who Mutilate the Body is the Temple of God! Ears hole get refiled, cuting your sons forskin robs him of the joys of masurbation at its best quality, and the forskin makes tingly pleasures thet you just distroyed !  yours son will no only have orgasims, but no added tingly errotic heaveny sensations to boot, glad its your son not mine.  My son now enjoys the extra forskin sensations and lucky son, I am a great dad!</p>
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		<title>By: Glen Johnston</title>
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		<dc:creator>Glen Johnston</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mark thank U for writing this below!  So True its not so important that the penis head is better of a un-cut guy, but that the foreskin produces erotic sensations when touched ever so feather lightly, no other part of penis gives those sensations, so Un-cut is like leaving your son a special sex Upgrade Option for free!  And for the money you save by not destroying his sex toy accessory, you can buy him a $800 gift!  Also U have zero chance of your son getting killed during the circumcision, cause lol you are not gonna &quot;Texturally Lobotomize&quot; Him like Mark said!

&quot;Actually circumcision prevents the Masturbation from being as satisfying as real sex, also Circumcision increases AIDS! In Africa as more men are Circumcised they get Aids and so do the women. Just wait and see Aids no explode as USA is giving free circumcisions to Africans. Its a racist move to “Sexually Lobotomize ” Africans! And the dudes are lining up to cut their dicks so that they can have condom free sex, so they all will learn lol:)

BTW Foreskin produces a symphony orchestra of erotic sensations very different then what the penile head produces. Anyhow if clit hood cutting is wrong then so is dick hood cutting. How ignorant not to know that clit hood converts tto dick hood when the boys y chromosome kicks in, and the clit converts to the dick ok! Boys and girls are the same, so if you can cut clit hood, then y can cut dick hood, if you ban clit hood removal,m then pinus hood removal is even worse as the penis is a big big clit, and a penis hood is a big big clit hood!&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mark thank U for writing this below!  So True its not so important that the penis head is better of a un-cut guy, but that the foreskin produces erotic sensations when touched ever so feather lightly, no other part of penis gives those sensations, so Un-cut is like leaving your son a special sex Upgrade Option for free!  And for the money you save by not destroying his sex toy accessory, you can buy him a $800 gift!  Also U have zero chance of your son getting killed during the circumcision, cause lol you are not gonna &#8220;Texturally Lobotomize&#8221; Him like Mark said!</p>
<p>&#8220;Actually circumcision prevents the Masturbation from being as satisfying as real sex, also Circumcision increases AIDS! In Africa as more men are Circumcised they get Aids and so do the women. Just wait and see Aids no explode as USA is giving free circumcisions to Africans. Its a racist move to “Sexually Lobotomize ” Africans! And the dudes are lining up to cut their dicks so that they can have condom free sex, so they all will learn lol:)</p>
<p>BTW Foreskin produces a symphony orchestra of erotic sensations very different then what the penile head produces. Anyhow if clit hood cutting is wrong then so is dick hood cutting. How ignorant not to know that clit hood converts tto dick hood when the boys y chromosome kicks in, and the clit converts to the dick ok! Boys and girls are the same, so if you can cut clit hood, then y can cut dick hood, if you ban clit hood removal,m then pinus hood removal is even worse as the penis is a big big clit, and a penis hood is a big big clit hood!&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Mark Wills</title>
		<link>http://www.phdinparenting.com/2009/08/25/should-tradition-trump-reason-circumcision-and-more/#comment-167695</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wills</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Actually circumcision prevents the Masturbation from being as satisfying as real sex, also Circumcision increases AIDS!  In Africa as more men are Circumcised they get Aids and so do the women.    Just wait and see Aids no explode as USA is giving free circumcisions to Africans.  Its a racist move to &quot;Sexually Lobotomize &quot; Africans!  And the dudes are lining up to cut their dicks so that they can have condom free sex, so they all will learn lol:) 

BTW Foreskin produces a symphony orchestra of erotic sensations very different then what the penile head produces.  ANyhow if clit hood cutting is wrong then so is dick hood cutting. How ignorant not to know that clit hood converts tto dick hood when the boys y cromosome kicks in, and the clit converts to the dick ok!  Boys and girls are the same, so if you can cut clit hood, then y can cut dick hood, if you ban clit hood removal,m then pinus hood removal is even worse as the pinus is a big big clit, and a pinus hood is a big big clit hood!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually circumcision prevents the Masturbation from being as satisfying as real sex, also Circumcision increases AIDS!  In Africa as more men are Circumcised they get Aids and so do the women.    Just wait and see Aids no explode as USA is giving free circumcisions to Africans.  Its a racist move to &#8220;Sexually Lobotomize &#8221; Africans!  And the dudes are lining up to cut their dicks so that they can have condom free sex, so they all will learn lol:) </p>
<p>BTW Foreskin produces a symphony orchestra of erotic sensations very different then what the penile head produces.  ANyhow if clit hood cutting is wrong then so is dick hood cutting. How ignorant not to know that clit hood converts tto dick hood when the boys y cromosome kicks in, and the clit converts to the dick ok!  Boys and girls are the same, so if you can cut clit hood, then y can cut dick hood, if you ban clit hood removal,m then pinus hood removal is even worse as the pinus is a big big clit, and a pinus hood is a big big clit hood!</p>
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		<title>By: Mark Wills</title>
		<link>http://www.phdinparenting.com/2009/08/25/should-tradition-trump-reason-circumcision-and-more/#comment-167689</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wills</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>melissa You are wrong, if gov bans male circumcision, this would simply be giving rights to the baby boy to be equal to the baby girl, whoes colitoral hood is now illegal to be circumcised.  SO IF PARENTS CAN BE BANNED FROM CUTING A GIRLS CLIT HOOD, THEN SAME SHOULD BE FOR A BOYS PINIUS HOOD AKA FOESKIN!  bOYS AND GIRLS ARE EQUALS RIGHT.  WHAT ABOUT RELIGIOUS RIGHT TO CIRCUMCISE GIRLS AND PARENTS RIGHTS TO CIRCUMCISE GIRLS!  cUT LOVE TO CUT AND WELL THANK GOD CUT PEOPLE CUT WOMEN BY C-SECTIONS NOW MOST WOMEN ARE C-SECTIONED LOL!
Cut a boy and he will grow up and order a C-section when you deliver see the statistics!  So any lady that thinks circumcison is ok for boy, then you do not belive man and women are equals, and yes hope your doctor does C-sections as that is now as AMerican as Apple pie.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>melissa You are wrong, if gov bans male circumcision, this would simply be giving rights to the baby boy to be equal to the baby girl, whoes colitoral hood is now illegal to be circumcised.  SO IF PARENTS CAN BE BANNED FROM CUTING A GIRLS CLIT HOOD, THEN SAME SHOULD BE FOR A BOYS PINIUS HOOD AKA FOESKIN!  bOYS AND GIRLS ARE EQUALS RIGHT.  WHAT ABOUT RELIGIOUS RIGHT TO CIRCUMCISE GIRLS AND PARENTS RIGHTS TO CIRCUMCISE GIRLS!  cUT LOVE TO CUT AND WELL THANK GOD CUT PEOPLE CUT WOMEN BY C-SECTIONS NOW MOST WOMEN ARE C-SECTIONED LOL!<br />
Cut a boy and he will grow up and order a C-section when you deliver see the statistics!  So any lady that thinks circumcison is ok for boy, then you do not belive man and women are equals, and yes hope your doctor does C-sections as that is now as AMerican as Apple pie.</p>
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		<title>By: Leif Harmsen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Leif Harmsen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There&#039;s no controversy at all if you consider whose penis it is.  If it is your own, do whatever you like to it!  It is 100% yours!  It&#039;s not God&#039;s, and it does not and never did belong to your parents.  It is not your doctor&#039;s or your mulla&#039;s, and no guru or priest has any legitimate claim on it.  Your penis does not belong to science or your teachers.  The pope does not own your penis, nor does any rabbi.  Your cock does not belong to your wife or your husband or even your government.   Bill Gates has no interest in your penis.  The president of the United States has his own, he doesn&#039;t need yours.  Your own penis does not belong to your society or your ancestors in any way.  Your cock is yours and yours alone, always was yours, always will be, until death do you part.  So go to town, do to it as you please with your own cock.

If it is NOT YOURS, leave it alone because, er, IT IS NOT YOURS.  How simple is that?    If there&#039;s some freak medical emergency... whatever, we&#039;re not even talking about anything like that.  Your son&#039;s penis does not belong to you, it belongs to him, so look after him well and for God&#039;s sake don&#039;t be chopping parts off of him, not even really little itty bitty ones.  It doesn&#039;t matter what anyone else says, it isn&#039;t theirs to mutilate either.

If you choose to believe in a God that wants your son&#039;s penis partially amputated (I respect that everyone is welcome to believe whatever nonsense they want), then that&#039;s clearly His problem, not yours or your son&#039;s.    If He had a preference for &quot;cut&#039; then He&#039;d have dealt with that eons ago.  Perhaps the foreskin would simply fall out, as do baby teeth, or slide off like a snake&#039;s skin, and He could send His Foreskin Fairy to repossess it back to heaven.  If He truly had second thoughts about creating all those square miles of foreskin, then I&#039;m sure He would conceive boys to not have one in the first place.  To God such minor genetic tweaks are child&#039;s play, with neither a miracle nor even a mysterious way required.  To make a tweak like that appear to be the result of a few hundred thousand years of unremarkable evolution rather than His heavenly taste in cock would be nothing to Him.   When all is said and done it matters not what you believe because it is your son&#039;s body, NOT YOURS.  Apart from some freak medical emergency it is nobody else&#039;s to be chopping parts from, ever,
  not even just a little part,
  not even a teensy-weensy itty-bitty bit,
  it is not your decision to make,
  period.
 
Your son will have his entire adult life during which he can voluntarily remove bits of his own flesh for any reason, conviction or convention.  If you want him to have his penis partly amputated, then you are just going to have to try to make it sound appealing.  Good luck.  To make your proposed self-mutilation sound reasonable will be yet more of a challenge, but might work if he&#039;s particularly slow or illiterate.  You might promise him a new car, you could even lie about the car so you never have to pay up, or threaten him with fire and brimstone, but it will still be his cock and therefore his decision.  There is absolutely no rush.  If you never decide and never do anything then the &quot;problem&quot; will vanish because foreskin was never the problem.  

Throughout history many social structures, from street gangs to entire cultures, have demanded body part sacrifices from our children.   It is your responsibility to protect your children from such such unethical and gruesome attempts to consolidate social identity without consent.  Intended or not, you betray your own flesh and blood when you violate your son&#039;s person and deny him his prerogative in the matter that is himself.   There is nothing for you to decide anyway unless you&#039;re thinking about cutting something from your own body.    

If Vincent Van Gogh had been your dad maybe he&#039;d have cut something off of you before you could speak, for some really really good reason he had - maybe  voices told him to do it.  As with any amputation the rest of you survives and for you it might not be a big deal to be missing your ear.  While you can&#039;t grow a new ear any more than you can a new foreskin, you can decide that you prefer your one-ear-look anyway.  While it&#039;s good to be happy and accept what you can&#039;t change, neither can anyone change the fact that your ear was never your Dad&#039;s to cut off.  

For those with children, respect them and respect their bodies as their own.  You might need them to return that favor someday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s no controversy at all if you consider whose penis it is.  If it is your own, do whatever you like to it!  It is 100% yours!  It&#8217;s not God&#8217;s, and it does not and never did belong to your parents.  It is not your doctor&#8217;s or your mulla&#8217;s, and no guru or priest has any legitimate claim on it.  Your penis does not belong to science or your teachers.  The pope does not own your penis, nor does any rabbi.  Your cock does not belong to your wife or your husband or even your government.   Bill Gates has no interest in your penis.  The president of the United States has his own, he doesn&#8217;t need yours.  Your own penis does not belong to your society or your ancestors in any way.  Your cock is yours and yours alone, always was yours, always will be, until death do you part.  So go to town, do to it as you please with your own cock.</p>
<p>If it is NOT YOURS, leave it alone because, er, IT IS NOT YOURS.  How simple is that?    If there&#8217;s some freak medical emergency&#8230; whatever, we&#8217;re not even talking about anything like that.  Your son&#8217;s penis does not belong to you, it belongs to him, so look after him well and for God&#8217;s sake don&#8217;t be chopping parts off of him, not even really little itty bitty ones.  It doesn&#8217;t matter what anyone else says, it isn&#8217;t theirs to mutilate either.</p>
<p>If you choose to believe in a God that wants your son&#8217;s penis partially amputated (I respect that everyone is welcome to believe whatever nonsense they want), then that&#8217;s clearly His problem, not yours or your son&#8217;s.    If He had a preference for &#8220;cut&#8217; then He&#8217;d have dealt with that eons ago.  Perhaps the foreskin would simply fall out, as do baby teeth, or slide off like a snake&#8217;s skin, and He could send His Foreskin Fairy to repossess it back to heaven.  If He truly had second thoughts about creating all those square miles of foreskin, then I&#8217;m sure He would conceive boys to not have one in the first place.  To God such minor genetic tweaks are child&#8217;s play, with neither a miracle nor even a mysterious way required.  To make a tweak like that appear to be the result of a few hundred thousand years of unremarkable evolution rather than His heavenly taste in cock would be nothing to Him.   When all is said and done it matters not what you believe because it is your son&#8217;s body, NOT YOURS.  Apart from some freak medical emergency it is nobody else&#8217;s to be chopping parts from, ever,<br />
  not even just a little part,<br />
  not even a teensy-weensy itty-bitty bit,<br />
  it is not your decision to make,<br />
  period.</p>
<p>Your son will have his entire adult life during which he can voluntarily remove bits of his own flesh for any reason, conviction or convention.  If you want him to have his penis partly amputated, then you are just going to have to try to make it sound appealing.  Good luck.  To make your proposed self-mutilation sound reasonable will be yet more of a challenge, but might work if he&#8217;s particularly slow or illiterate.  You might promise him a new car, you could even lie about the car so you never have to pay up, or threaten him with fire and brimstone, but it will still be his cock and therefore his decision.  There is absolutely no rush.  If you never decide and never do anything then the &#8220;problem&#8221; will vanish because foreskin was never the problem.  </p>
<p>Throughout history many social structures, from street gangs to entire cultures, have demanded body part sacrifices from our children.   It is your responsibility to protect your children from such such unethical and gruesome attempts to consolidate social identity without consent.  Intended or not, you betray your own flesh and blood when you violate your son&#8217;s person and deny him his prerogative in the matter that is himself.   There is nothing for you to decide anyway unless you&#8217;re thinking about cutting something from your own body.    </p>
<p>If Vincent Van Gogh had been your dad maybe he&#8217;d have cut something off of you before you could speak, for some really really good reason he had &#8211; maybe  voices told him to do it.  As with any amputation the rest of you survives and for you it might not be a big deal to be missing your ear.  While you can&#8217;t grow a new ear any more than you can a new foreskin, you can decide that you prefer your one-ear-look anyway.  While it&#8217;s good to be happy and accept what you can&#8217;t change, neither can anyone change the fact that your ear was never your Dad&#8217;s to cut off.  </p>
<p>For those with children, respect them and respect their bodies as their own.  You might need them to return that favor someday.</p>
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		<title>By: Linds</title>
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		<dc:creator>Linds</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 03:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can&#039;t wait to have a big bustling family someday and be able to say that *all* of my children are intact.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t wait to have a big bustling family someday and be able to say that *all* of my children are intact.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Linds</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 03:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Emma, I&#039;m sorry but your post makes almost no sense. It seems like you&#039;re just trying to explain away your &quot;reasons&quot; for circumcising your unconsenting children. You&#039;re kind of talking in circles.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Emma, I&#8217;m sorry but your post makes almost no sense. It seems like you&#8217;re just trying to explain away your &#8220;reasons&#8221; for circumcising your unconsenting children. You&#8217;re kind of talking in circles.</p>
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