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Offline bijou

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San Francisco may vote on banning male circumcision
« on: April 27, 2011, 05:41:49 PM »
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A group opposed to male circumcision said on Tuesday they have collected more than enough signatures to qualify a proposal to ban the practice in San Francisco as a ballot measure for November elections.

But legal experts said that even if it were approved by a majority of the city's voters, such a measure would almost certainly face a legal challenge as an unconstitutional infringement on freedom of religion.

Circumcision is a ritual obligation for infant Jewish boys, and is also a common rite among Muslims, who account for the largest share of circumcised men worldwide.

The leading proponent of a ban, Lloyd Schofield, 59, acknowledged circumcision is widely socially accepted but he said it should still be outlawed.

"It's excruciatingly painful and permanently damaging surgery that's forced on men when they're at their weakest and most vulnerable," he told Reuters. ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110427/us_nm/us_circumcision_ban
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Re: San Francisco may vote on banning male circumcision
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2011, 06:40:23 PM »
Circumcision also helps prevent some diseases. That's the reason it was started to begin with.
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Re: San Francisco may vote on banning male circumcision
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2011, 07:05:57 PM »
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"It's excruciatingly painful and permanently damaging surgery that's forced on men when they're at their weakest and most vulnerable," he told Reuters. ...

I don't remember any pain from it being done. 
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Re: San Francisco may vote on banning male circumcision
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2011, 07:25:23 PM »
I'm sure female circumcision is still a GO.

Cultural tolerance and all.
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Re: San Francisco may vote on banning male circumcision
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2011, 10:04:14 PM »
What?  Teh gheys luv teh foerskin?
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Re: San Francisco may vote on banning male circumcision
« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2011, 10:12:27 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on April 27, 2011, 07:05:57 PM
I don't remember any pain from it being done. 

Nor do I.....
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Re: San Francisco may vote on banning male circumcision
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2011, 09:27:17 AM »
Quote from: Thor on April 27, 2011, 06:40:23 PM
Circumcision also helps prevent some diseases. That's the reason it was started to begin with.

Nothing that "Bathing" doesn't also prevent.  The problem with this rational is that it was basically formulated by circumcised Christian and Jewish doctors to rationalize the fact they'd been doing them routinely for several decades, to put a scientific veneer on a practice that was basically just a cultural/religious practice.

Advantages and disadvantages are a wash.  The pain part has to be pretty trivial compared to having just been squeezed headfirst out of a hole that normally would just accommodate something be the size of their own little baby leg.

I do agree that this is stupid and they'll have a Hell of a time making it stick, but in the 9th Circus, who knows.
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Re: San Francisco may vote on banning male circumcision
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2011, 09:32:56 AM »
These idiots call themselves "intactivists". :whatever:
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Re: San Francisco may vote on banning male circumcision
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2011, 02:45:29 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on April 27, 2011, 07:05:57 PM
I don't remember any pain from it being done. 

I do. I was 23. Was told to refrain from any activity for 6 weeks. My wife looked awful good after 4 weeks. I ripped a stitch.


OUCH!!!!
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Re: San Francisco may vote on banning male circumcision
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2011, 03:43:14 PM »
Quote from: Tucker on April 28, 2011, 02:45:29 PM
I do. I was 23. Was told to refrain from any activity for 6 weeks. My wife looked awful good after 4 weeks. I ripped a stitch.


OUCH!!!!

Holy shit!  I felt that all the way over here!!!!!!   :hyper:
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Re: San Francisco may vote on banning male circumcision
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2011, 03:49:59 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on April 28, 2011, 03:43:14 PM
Holy shit!  I felt that all the way over here!!!!!!   :hyper:

Make you put your knees together, did it? :lol:
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Re: San Francisco may vote on banning male circumcision
« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2011, 07:55:56 PM »
I had a anti-circ nazi call me a liar when I told her my son slept through his.  They are wayyyyyyyyyyy too concerned about other guy's dingdongs out there.
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