Comments on: San Diegan’s anti-circumcision bill gets a hearing in Massachusetts

By: edwin decker

edwin decker — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:04:14 +0000

Hugh, I think you should probably go back and read my post; In particular, read what is in between the lines. I wrote that I was intellectually in favor of the concept but couldn’t “shake” the thought of the uncircumcised penis as disgusting.

Translation: I’ve been conditioned.

So, no, do not believe babies should be cut to suit my conditioning.

By: hugh7

hugh7 — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:38:56 +0000

@Edwin Decker: do you also consider hands with all their fingers or ears with their lobes still attached to be “disgusting”? Could it be that your response is not at all “natural”, but entirely conditioned by what you are familiar with? Which prompts the question, why should any babies be cut to suit your conditioning?

The US is the last country in the English-speaking world that still cuts healthy, non-renewable, functional body parts off a majority of its baby boys, and that majority is now quite slim – in fact a clear minority in Southern California. Almost universal in New Zealand 50 years ago, it’s now hard to find a doctor outside the largest cities who will do it. In the rest of the world it is purely a religious or tribal custom.

@Peyton Farquhar : A one-word answer would be “earwax”. Smegma is equally toxic. And since women have more of it, what are you proposing to cut off them?

By: RestoringTally

RestoringTally — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:21:27 +0000

The Massachusetts Bill for genital integrity succeeded in raising public awareness of the circumcision issue. In time, the practice of cutting baby boys will stop, just as it has in other countries.

By: Dave Maass

Dave Maass — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:11:31 +0000

Because you’re Peyton Q. Public.

By: Peyton Farquhar

Peyton Farquhar — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:07:53 +0000

That’s fairly amusing, Dave. I had no idea that **my** blog spoke for each and every resident of San Diego County. I should be getting paid a public servant salary for the service I provide – would you mind writing something up for me on this site?

By: edwin decker

edwin decker — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:30:20 +0000

I always have to laugh when people argue that the tackling of certain, more trivial issues, are a waste of the government’s time and money because we have bigger issues to contend with.

Peyton, dude, that’s like saying the police shouldn’t give out traffic tickets because they have murderers to catch.

Government has many departments and branches and subdivisions that deal with the myriad of issues that we as a society must face, large and small. I’m pretty sure we can have a conversation about circumcision AND the economy.

By: Dave Maass

Dave Maass — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:26:07 +0000

No, Peyton, San Diegans seem more obsessed with Family Guy remixes on youtube and icebergs in Lake Michigan.

By: Peyton Farquhar

Peyton Farquhar — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:17:56 +0000

LMAO – With double digit national and state unemployment, state government a pubic hair away from insolvency, and both the national & state economies in the shitter with no relief in site, **this** is the burning issue in the minds of San Diegans?? Circumcision? Really?

Read your health book. One word: Smegma.

By: edwin decker

edwin decker — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:46:15 +0000

not if that disgusting hood is still attached

By: Dave Maass

Dave Maass — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:34:37 +0000

How often are you on your knees in front of an uncircumcised penis, Ed? You sound like a eunuch prostitute with high job satisfaction.

By: edwin decker

edwin decker — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:28:49 +0000

I totally, TOTALLY get this bill but I can’t shake the fact that every time I have ever seen an uncircumcised penis I, um, get on my knees and thank God that I was mutilated at birth.