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avram ([personal profile] avram) wrote in [personal profile] redbird 2004-12-06 05:49 pm (UTC)

It’s not exactly a light-generating topic. How much factual information is there to bring into such a discussion? You link to a few studies showing that some tiny percentage of circumcisions go bad and turn into nightmare stories, you get a few posts about whether it aids or impairs sexual function (mostly a matter of opinion anyway), and a few about a slight inverse correlation with cervical cancer in sexual partners (which turns out to be a matter of hygiene, which had a slight inverse correlation with circumcision at the time of the study), and that’s about it as far as facts go. The rest is all “It’s mutilation” (which is true) versus “It’s a religious obligation which does negligible harm” (also true). In other words, matters of opinion and axiomatic value, which are inherently heat-generating.

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