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Taoist thoughts on CircumcisionFrom: Steven
Subject: General
Date/Time 2008-02-19 19:12:29
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MessageI lean towards leave things as nature intended--i.e. uncircumcised.
There are a few health benefits toward circumcision--mainly having
to with being able to keep the foreskin clean. Uncircumcised males
have to make sure that the area under their foreskin remains clean and
doesn't have a lot of moisture build up, or it can lead to yeast infections,
similar to what women have to suffer with.
If a male gets repeated yeast infections, or repeatedly tears his foreskin
through sex or something, then it may be advisable to have it removed, i.e.
be circumcised--although it seems kind of unnecessary to just remove it as
a blanket rule.
There is a question of whether circumcised males have less sensitivity
(and thus less sexual pleasure) than uncircumcised ones--since some of the
sensitive skin is removed, and since the sensitive head of the penis becomes
slightly desensitized by continual contact with clothing (as opposed to being protected under a foreskin sheath)--of course the jury is sort of out of this one.
There is a rumor that circumcision was started as a practice for this
expressed purpose--to decrease sensitivity so that boys would be less
likely to masturbate (for some kind of puritanical purpose). Although this
seems kind of silly, because probably the majority of men in the US are
circumcised, but I know relatively few of them that don't masturbate!
Overall, I'd say there are arguments for and against it, but again
my personal opinion would be to say, don't circumcise unless there
are medical reasons why it would be beneficial--as in the above discussion.
Steven
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