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		<title>By: mike70</title>
		<link>http://www.raising4boys.com/2007/06/19/circumcision-becoming-less-common-in-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-25732</link>
		<dc:creator>mike70</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Marco, everything you said up till eugenics was great.

&quot;Eugenicists&quot; are the ones who introduced circumcision to America on such a mass scale.

Eugenics is not a science.  It is a pseudoscience.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marco, everything you said up till eugenics was great.</p>
<p>&#8220;Eugenicists&#8221; are the ones who introduced circumcision to America on such a mass scale.</p>
<p>Eugenics is not a science.  It is a pseudoscience.</p>
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		<title>By: Marco DiBieste</title>
		<link>http://www.raising4boys.com/2007/06/19/circumcision-becoming-less-common-in-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-25696</link>
		<dc:creator>Marco DiBieste</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yo! All you parents of circumcised kids!  You were given an intelligence test, and you failed it.

Religious reasons? Get a new religion.  

Circumcised men and women have forever-damaged brain engrams.  The rearrangement of the brain after the cutting of nerves makes them something different than they might have been.

Mutilation apologists sometimes claim that the elimination of penile cancer in six old men with bad hygiene outweighs putting the sex lives of 100,000 men in wheelchairs for the rest of their lives.  No one notices the psychological damage which occurs with circumcision.

If your logic processes are so faulty as to bring you to support circumcision then how are we to give any credibility to you when you try to influence us on, say our choice for President, how to fix Social Security, where to peg the growth rate of the money supply...?

Practice eugenics, folks.  Don&#039;t have any more kids.  Let those of us with kinder, gentler dicks do it for you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yo! All you parents of circumcised kids!  You were given an intelligence test, and you failed it.</p>
<p>Religious reasons? Get a new religion.  </p>
<p>Circumcised men and women have forever-damaged brain engrams.  The rearrangement of the brain after the cutting of nerves makes them something different than they might have been.</p>
<p>Mutilation apologists sometimes claim that the elimination of penile cancer in six old men with bad hygiene outweighs putting the sex lives of 100,000 men in wheelchairs for the rest of their lives.  No one notices the psychological damage which occurs with circumcision.</p>
<p>If your logic processes are so faulty as to bring you to support circumcision then how are we to give any credibility to you when you try to influence us on, say our choice for President, how to fix Social Security, where to peg the growth rate of the money supply&#8230;?</p>
<p>Practice eugenics, folks.  Don&#8217;t have any more kids.  Let those of us with kinder, gentler dicks do it for you.</p>
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		<title>By: mike70</title>
		<link>http://www.raising4boys.com/2007/06/19/circumcision-becoming-less-common-in-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-25563</link>
		<dc:creator>mike70</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s funny how the ever so succinctly naïve &quot;phd rachel&quot;, presents her &quot;expert medical opinion&quot;, justifying the mutilation of her two boys, and is rebutted with a simple reference to the Langerhan article, which has been available on the Circumcision Information Resource Page (cirp.org) news section for some time now.

Do you know what it feels like to have your bare glans rubbed against your underwear all day Rachel?  Do you know what it feels like to have a terribly rude awakening in the morning when your erect genital&#039;s unnaturally bared head is exposed to the elements?

Do you know what it feels like to see evil females, these females that us males fought and died for, in horrific circumstances, only so that they could let our offspring me ruthlessly mutilated.  Do we touch your genitals?  No.  You&#039;re comfortably tucked away down there, I would ask that you please leave my male brothers the same way.

America isn&#039;t obese because we&#039;re greedy.  America is obese because we&#039;re trying to deal with the stress of our circumcision.  It is well documented in the bible how some of my ancestors used circumcision to weaken a nation such as in the case of Shechem and the Idumeans.

It is well known how cortisone is released when you&#039;re understress which causes you to overeat.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s funny how the ever so succinctly naïve &#8220;phd rachel&#8221;, presents her &#8220;expert medical opinion&#8221;, justifying the mutilation of her two boys, and is rebutted with a simple reference to the Langerhan article, which has been available on the Circumcision Information Resource Page (cirp.org) news section for some time now.</p>
<p>Do you know what it feels like to have your bare glans rubbed against your underwear all day Rachel?  Do you know what it feels like to have a terribly rude awakening in the morning when your erect genital&#8217;s unnaturally bared head is exposed to the elements?</p>
<p>Do you know what it feels like to see evil females, these females that us males fought and died for, in horrific circumstances, only so that they could let our offspring me ruthlessly mutilated.  Do we touch your genitals?  No.  You&#8217;re comfortably tucked away down there, I would ask that you please leave my male brothers the same way.</p>
<p>America isn&#8217;t obese because we&#8217;re greedy.  America is obese because we&#8217;re trying to deal with the stress of our circumcision.  It is well documented in the bible how some of my ancestors used circumcision to weaken a nation such as in the case of Shechem and the Idumeans.</p>
<p>It is well known how cortisone is released when you&#8217;re understress which causes you to overeat.</p>
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		<title>By: mike70</title>
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		<dc:creator>mike70</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Look at how Jewish women behave.  Manipulative, abusive, genital mutilating witches.  They have become so sucked into this terrible cult blood ritual that they relish the mutilation of their boys so they can trounce on their manhood later in life.

To claim that what fredr is saying - that circumcision doesn&#039;t cause neurological disorders - is absurd.  When you have lack of stress relief ability (Masturbating without a foreskin is like having sex with a hole in a teak tree), and building societal tensions, you get a country (US) with the highest prison population in the world and one of the most brutal systems to boot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look at how Jewish women behave.  Manipulative, abusive, genital mutilating witches.  They have become so sucked into this terrible cult blood ritual that they relish the mutilation of their boys so they can trounce on their manhood later in life.</p>
<p>To claim that what fredr is saying &#8211; that circumcision doesn&#8217;t cause neurological disorders &#8211; is absurd.  When you have lack of stress relief ability (Masturbating without a foreskin is like having sex with a hole in a teak tree), and building societal tensions, you get a country (US) with the highest prison population in the world and one of the most brutal systems to boot.</p>
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		<title>By: mike70</title>
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		<dc:creator>mike70</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Societal impacts are also tremendous.  If there were truly something so bad, such a precise attack on humanity, it would have to be circumcision.

The penis is an internal organ that is being externalized.

Men who are circumcised wngage in oral sex because the action quite literally &#039;feels like a foreskin&#039; for the short time that they are engaged in it.

Circumcision is a cruel and inhumane practice, and parents who are made to suffer the consequences of it later in life, deserve what they get.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Societal impacts are also tremendous.  If there were truly something so bad, such a precise attack on humanity, it would have to be circumcision.</p>
<p>The penis is an internal organ that is being externalized.</p>
<p>Men who are circumcised wngage in oral sex because the action quite literally &#8216;feels like a foreskin&#8217; for the short time that they are engaged in it.</p>
<p>Circumcision is a cruel and inhumane practice, and parents who are made to suffer the consequences of it later in life, deserve what they get.</p>
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		<title>By: mike70</title>
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		<dc:creator>mike70</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>He&#039;s hardly crazy.

I understand Rachel May&#039;s and your refusal to accept the truth.

I think I have some authority on this matter as I am Jewish, genitally mutilated myself, and so are all of the males in my religion with few exceptions.

Now I would normally say with few lucky exceptions but what good is being intact when you&#039;re growing up in a society where most are mutilated.  It&#039;s like an episode of the Twilight Zone.

Circumcision does cause sexual dysfunction.  Reversal of this procedure through restoration is not an option due to the child&#039;s brain already being hardwired for trauma.  Intact children have had their right of playing with their genitals, whilst their mutilated brethren have had nothing but pain and discomfort.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He&#8217;s hardly crazy.</p>
<p>I understand Rachel May&#8217;s and your refusal to accept the truth.</p>
<p>I think I have some authority on this matter as I am Jewish, genitally mutilated myself, and so are all of the males in my religion with few exceptions.</p>
<p>Now I would normally say with few lucky exceptions but what good is being intact when you&#8217;re growing up in a society where most are mutilated.  It&#8217;s like an episode of the Twilight Zone.</p>
<p>Circumcision does cause sexual dysfunction.  Reversal of this procedure through restoration is not an option due to the child&#8217;s brain already being hardwired for trauma.  Intact children have had their right of playing with their genitals, whilst their mutilated brethren have had nothing but pain and discomfort.</p>
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		<title>By: amy</title>
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		<dc:creator>amy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;re crazy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re crazy.</p>
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		<title>By: fredr</title>
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		<dc:creator>fredr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rachel May,
 I&#039;m sorry, i didn&#039;t know of your BS and MS. I should trust you as much as the makers of VIOXX.
 It is easy to twist the problems with inherent traditions into inherent genes as we get both from our parents. If it were genetic, that would mean that my family was genetically unstable to sexual trauma. On my mother&#039;s side, they did not practice traditional prepucectomy.
 Don&#039;t get trapped in the web of pride and arrogance. It&#039;s better to admit your mistakes so others won&#039;t make the same mistakes.
 I did go to a MOTT psychiatrist with my concerns about developing circumcision induced schizophrenia. He said I was dellusional and wanted to perscribe schichotropic drugs. I told him that chemical restrainsts were illigal and that I would not let him chemically silence me.
 Then I when to a psychologist and told him of my concernes of developing circumcision induced schizophrenia and he analized me and I took a long test. He said I was not showing signs of developing schizophrenia and that I tended to look on the bright side of things.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rachel May,<br />
 I&#8217;m sorry, i didn&#8217;t know of your BS and MS. I should trust you as much as the makers of VIOXX.<br />
 It is easy to twist the problems with inherent traditions into inherent genes as we get both from our parents. If it were genetic, that would mean that my family was genetically unstable to sexual trauma. On my mother&#8217;s side, they did not practice traditional prepucectomy.<br />
 Don&#8217;t get trapped in the web of pride and arrogance. It&#8217;s better to admit your mistakes so others won&#8217;t make the same mistakes.<br />
 I did go to a MOTT psychiatrist with my concerns about developing circumcision induced schizophrenia. He said I was dellusional and wanted to perscribe schichotropic drugs. I told him that chemical restrainsts were illigal and that I would not let him chemically silence me.<br />
 Then I when to a psychologist and told him of my concernes of developing circumcision induced schizophrenia and he analized me and I took a long test. He said I was not showing signs of developing schizophrenia and that I tended to look on the bright side of things.</p>
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		<title>By: dad</title>
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		<dc:creator>dad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m not taking sides in the larger debate going on here in the comments, but according to WikiPedia:

&quot;Langerhans&#039; cells are dendritic cells abundant in epidermis, containing large granules called Birbeck granules and can be found in other organs in the condition Histiocytosis.&quot;

I realize that WikiPedia isn&#039;t the be all, end all of knowledge, but a Google search of Langerhans&#039; cells indicates that fredr is correct, at least with regard to the relationship between epidermal tissue and Langerhans&#039; cells.

While we encourage debate, please try to keep it respectful and refrain from name calling. Thanks!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not taking sides in the larger debate going on here in the comments, but according to WikiPedia:</p>
<p>&#8220;Langerhans&#8217; cells are dendritic cells abundant in epidermis, containing large granules called Birbeck granules and can be found in other organs in the condition Histiocytosis.&#8221;</p>
<p>I realize that WikiPedia isn&#8217;t the be all, end all of knowledge, but a Google search of Langerhans&#8217; cells indicates that fredr is correct, at least with regard to the relationship between epidermal tissue and Langerhans&#8217; cells.</p>
<p>While we encourage debate, please try to keep it respectful and refrain from name calling. Thanks!</p>
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		<title>By: Rachel May</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rachel May</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>fredr, 
I&#039;m sorry to tell you that the article you linked is just plain wrong.  Your epidermis does not have Langerhans&#039; cells.  In case you want to know how I know my big words, I have a B.S. in Biology and an M.S. in Microbiology.

Next time try reading and referencing a scientific publication.  The media love to use big words to impress people.  Unfortunately, they&#039;ve caught you in their web.

If you really want people to take you seriously, learn to spell and write properly.

I&#039;m sorry your family has a history of mental illness.  From what you&#039;ve described, odds are that it&#039;s genetic, not caused by environmental factors.  I hope you get the help you need.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>fredr,<br />
I&#8217;m sorry to tell you that the article you linked is just plain wrong.  Your epidermis does not have Langerhans&#8217; cells.  In case you want to know how I know my big words, I have a B.S. in Biology and an M.S. in Microbiology.</p>
<p>Next time try reading and referencing a scientific publication.  The media love to use big words to impress people.  Unfortunately, they&#8217;ve caught you in their web.</p>
<p>If you really want people to take you seriously, learn to spell and write properly.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry your family has a history of mental illness.  From what you&#8217;ve described, odds are that it&#8217;s genetic, not caused by environmental factors.  I hope you get the help you need.</p>
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