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post #21 of 23
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Originally Posted by Night_Nurse View Post
you're probably not going to convert the pro-circers on other boards, but you might help educate undecided parents
If you divide people up based on the position someone holds today - anti-cutting, pro-circ, or indifferent/conformist - what are the odds someone will migrate from anti-cutting to one of the others? I'd say close to zero. The more you know the worse circumcision gets.

In the '80s I was a cut man in my 20s and I read some stuff in magazines that made me think circumcision was unneccesary. But it wasn't until around '95 that I really got a clue about the harm of circumcision from browsing online parenting resources. I'm very thankful someone was tenacious enough to butt heads with those of us in the Usenet groups. Even I tried to insist it was no big deal and that we should be left in peace to discuss things like diapering and discipline.

People do change.
post #22 of 23
There is hope.

About 45% of American baby boys leave the hospital intact. Nearly all boys born at home are left intact. Intact is the majority choice west of the continental divide. Circumcision is down to 9% in Canada.

Many North American women have posted in many forums claiming that their premarital sexual exploration included both cut and intact. Most of these women say that vaginal intercourse and foreplay with an intact partner works just fine, or works better. Some of these women say that sex with an intact man was a turning point in their sexual histories. Some women who prefer intact become ardent intactivists. Quite a few young women have revealed passionate intactivist sympathies in YouTube videos.

Every day, women in college dorms chat about sex, and the conversation surely touches on cut and uncut. And every time a woman giggles that she's having a great time with a new uncut BF, intactivists are born. Young women with home offices are taking their sexual curiosity to the internet. And some of these women are discovering that the moving foreskin is hot. I think that younger American women are vulnerable to the sexual appeal of the foreskin. When they become mothers, they will opt for intact.

Never forget: around the world, billions of women are married to intact men and are raising intact sons. They are doing just fine, thank you. Their contented example will eventually grind down American genital provinciality, and the American Foreskin Holocaust will fade away.
post #23 of 23
Not that I wish to prove you wrong. I wish you weren't but the rate of 9% in Canada is for circumcisions performed in hospital. Most of the circs performed in Canada are done 2-3 weeks later in doctors offices and as outpatients.

9%
http://www.courtchallenge.com/refs/s...hi-2005-e.html

31.9%
http://www.courtchallenge.com/refs/yr99p-e.html
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