Barbaric!

[Alan]

Yes Alan, that is terrible.

I witnessed many young African girls being daubed in some form of white paste before going off for their rite of passage to womanhood.
The thought of it used to bring me to tears back then on an emotional level, and it is still just as abhorrent now.

What many people don't know is that most infant boys in the USA are circumsized at birth.
Of all the subjects discussed on American radio, circumsicion had the most feedback.
People wanted to know why?
I used to have conversations with fellow barflies (when I used to partake, which is seldom now!) and they thought that boys all around the whole world were snipped at birth like them.
They still sip their beers without fully grasping what they do to their infants.

Yes Mike - I find it very difficult to believe WHY? And GIRLS as well!!!!

However, think of our own country - it is only a generation ago that, as soon as one had a sore throat, the Doc. used to send you to have your tonsils removed. (Sorry to mix active and passive here.)

I must admit, however, to a certain degree of hypocracy here. As a Maths teacher I have been informing students for 'donkeys years' that the circumcision of a circle is diameter times pi!

Al 'will always be a loony' Clegg. Maybe I should grow up and start acting my age - but then again - why?

I remember when my gran. was 55 - and she was OLD!!! I mean OLD!!!

I am talking about my gran - who is now 98 - the one who owned a hotel in Ostende - with the red carpets in the reception.

Actually, the hotel itself was circumcised - well, at least, it had a ring road around it!

If you like chips, and who doesn't, then you cannot get better than in Belgium!! Frites with a huge dollop of mayonnaise - oh, and a Belgian beer to wash it down with - something like a Trappiste or Mort Subite!! Now, you're talking beer - well, I am at least!

They say 'French Fries' here in the Phils. - Hmm - of course they get it from the Americans!! Certainly not the French, who have never HEARD of French Fries!!! I doubt the ones at McDonalds have ever been anywhere near a potato!!

I seem to have gone off topic here - another 6 bottles of Emperador please Hanna!!!

Nevertheless, (what a strange word - and who thought of joining it together? In fact, what heartless b*****d decided to put an 's' in the word 'lisp?'

Nevertheless, I have made a decision!! No, I am not going to be circumcised!

The decision I have made is...............

I'll tell you later.

Al.

[aposhark]

They say 'French Fries' here in the Phils. - Hmm - of course they get it from the Americans!! Certainly not the French, who have never HEARD of French Fries!!! I doubt the ones at McDonalds have ever been anywhere near a potato!!

Al.

French Fries ?
Try:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries

[Alan]

Thanks for that Mike - I have learned!

Al.

[IainBusby]

I just wonder what most of the Filipinas on this forum think about this. I mean if they have a baby boy with their Brit husband, would they want him to be circumcised. I know that it's a sort of "right of passage" in the Philippines and a boy who grew up and went to school there without being circumcised, being different from all his peers would probably be picked on or ridiculed, but if they are here in the UK, would they still want their child to be mutilated in this way.

Personally, I can't can't understand how a nation that is so godfearing dare to think that God got it so wrong when he decided to add a foreskin to protect one of the most sensitive areas of the male body and in doing so, from what I've heard, desensitize it completely, when it's sensitivity was for obvious reasons, supposed to be protected.

Iain.

[Arthur Little]

I agree whole-heartedly with Dom that the practice should only be resorted to for medical reasons.

Having perused (and heard of many more) 'horror stories' surrounding this topic, it was very amusing to read Alan's light-hearted *"climax" [perhaps not the most appropriate *word in the circumstances?] to his original thread.

Thanks Al.