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		<title>By: Nancy Martin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nancy Martin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Circumcision is cruel and barbaric!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Circumcision is cruel and barbaric!</p>
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		<title>By: Sergus</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/aparentlyspeaking/2010/08/18/u-s-circumcision-rates-down/comment-page-2/#comment-4860</link>
		<dc:creator>Sergus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;The health benefits of circumcision are proven.No chance of Phimosis&quot;
It&#039;s about as clever as saying removal of the eyes eliminates the risk of cataract.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The health benefits of circumcision are proven.No chance of Phimosis&#8221;<br />
It&#8217;s about as clever as saying removal of the eyes eliminates the risk of cataract.</p>
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		<title>By: Sergus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sergus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@George 
&quot;For me it was better sex.&quot;
Are you aware that not EVERYBODY has phimosis? Truth is, you don&#039;t know what it is to have a normal foreskin. Yet you want to remove you son&#039;s, which most likely will be perfectly normal? :(]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@George<br />
&#8220;For me it was better sex.&#8221;<br />
Are you aware that not EVERYBODY has phimosis? Truth is, you don&#8217;t know what it is to have a normal foreskin. Yet you want to remove you son&#8217;s, which most likely will be perfectly normal? <img src='http://www.ibabuzz.com/aparentlyspeaking/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Sergus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sergus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@Pony Steel
&quot;comfort&quot; : what do you mean?
&quot;self-esteem&quot; : apparently you were ashamed of having a foreskin. Big bias here.
&quot;overwhelmingly enhanced sexual sensation and pleasure during intercourse&quot; : depends on your foreskin. May be true for you but sure won&#039;t be true for everybody.
&quot;I know what life is like both with and without a foreskin&quot; : ... with a wife having a strong preference, a particular type of foreskin, and a foreskin you were ashamed of.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Pony Steel<br />
&#8220;comfort&#8221; : what do you mean?<br />
&#8220;self-esteem&#8221; : apparently you were ashamed of having a foreskin. Big bias here.<br />
&#8220;overwhelmingly enhanced sexual sensation and pleasure during intercourse&#8221; : depends on your foreskin. May be true for you but sure won&#8217;t be true for everybody.<br />
&#8220;I know what life is like both with and without a foreskin&#8221; : &#8230; with a wife having a strong preference, a particular type of foreskin, and a foreskin you were ashamed of.</p>
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		<title>By: Robert</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People can claim anything, but RATIONAL people require those claims to provide logical and rational mechanisms (and evidence to support them) to affirm those allegations, and as of now, I have seen NONE of these forthcoming.

I have yet to see a single alleged benefit for circumcision in the real world--or a rational reason of HOW and WHY a circumcised penis CAN have better sexual response--but I am patient and will be waiting for either one.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People can claim anything, but RATIONAL people require those claims to provide logical and rational mechanisms (and evidence to support them) to affirm those allegations, and as of now, I have seen NONE of these forthcoming.</p>
<p>I have yet to see a single alleged benefit for circumcision in the real world&#8211;or a rational reason of HOW and WHY a circumcised penis CAN have better sexual response&#8211;but I am patient and will be waiting for either one.</p>
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		<title>By: Frank McGinness</title>
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		<dc:creator>Frank McGinness</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert said &quot;I would like anyone here who claims that circumcised sex is better,&quot;

Hey Robert, these would be the same people who think circumcised females have better sex.
http://www.labiaplastysurgeon.com/labiaplasty-clinical-study.html

(from Joseph Lewis) 
&quot;You might tell me that female circumcision causes all this damage, that women
lose the ability to orgasm. &quot;Studies show&quot; that male circumcision &quot;doesn&#039;t
affect satisfaction&quot;, and thus this is why circumcision can be recommended.
But did you know, studies ALSO show that women who have been circumcised do
not lose their ability to orgasm? In fact, women who have undergone
infibulation, which is the worst kind of female genital mutilation in the
world, are still able to orgasm.&quot;

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17970975

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2837-female-circumcision-does-not-
reduce-sexual-activity.html]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Robert said &#8220;I would like anyone here who claims that circumcised sex is better,&#8221;</p>
<p>Hey Robert, these would be the same people who think circumcised females have better sex.<br />
<a href="http://www.labiaplastysurgeon.com/labiaplasty-clinical-study.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.labiaplastysurgeon.com/labiaplasty-clinical-study.html</a></p>
<p>(from Joseph Lewis)<br />
&#8220;You might tell me that female circumcision causes all this damage, that women<br />
lose the ability to orgasm. &#8220;Studies show&#8221; that male circumcision &#8220;doesn&#8217;t<br />
affect satisfaction&#8221;, and thus this is why circumcision can be recommended.<br />
But did you know, studies ALSO show that women who have been circumcised do<br />
not lose their ability to orgasm? In fact, women who have undergone<br />
infibulation, which is the worst kind of female genital mutilation in the<br />
world, are still able to orgasm.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17970975" rel="nofollow">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17970975</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2837-female-circumcision-does-not-" rel="nofollow">http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2837-female-circumcision-does-not-</a><br />
reduce-sexual-activity.html</p>
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		<title>By: Frank McGinness</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/aparentlyspeaking/2010/08/18/u-s-circumcision-rates-down/comment-page-2/#comment-4462</link>
		<dc:creator>Frank McGinness</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To those who say they work in a medical setting and to others that say It&#039;s not painful or not painful with anesthetics. Their observations or notions are incorrect because newborn circumcision with local dorsal penile nerve block doesn&#039;t work. 
http://cpj.sagepub.com/content/25/8/412.abstract  #i2]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To those who say they work in a medical setting and to others that say It&#8217;s not painful or not painful with anesthetics. Their observations or notions are incorrect because newborn circumcision with local dorsal penile nerve block doesn&#8217;t work.<br />
<a href="http://cpj.sagepub.com/content/25/8/412.abstract" rel="nofollow">http://cpj.sagepub.com/content/25/8/412.abstract</a>  #i2</p>
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		<title>By: Frank McGinness</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/aparentlyspeaking/2010/08/18/u-s-circumcision-rates-down/comment-page-2/#comment-4461</link>
		<dc:creator>Frank McGinness</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LATEST: from twitter MC_HIV: 
&quot;AIDS PATIENT CARE AND STDS Vol 24 Issue 8: Circumcised men may be more susceptible to HIV acquisition.&quot; And no difference of other STDs in MSM.   http://bit.ly/cEpUTq]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LATEST: from twitter MC_HIV:<br />
&#8220;AIDS PATIENT CARE AND STDS Vol 24 Issue 8: Circumcised men may be more susceptible to HIV acquisition.&#8221; And no difference of other STDs in MSM.   <a href="http://bit.ly/cEpUTq" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/cEpUTq</a></p>
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		<title>By: Frank McGinness</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/aparentlyspeaking/2010/08/18/u-s-circumcision-rates-down/comment-page-2/#comment-4460</link>
		<dc:creator>Frank McGinness</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@Malpascheck says &quot;No chance of phimosis&quot;
Wrong: http://www.jurology.com/article/S0022-5347(05)63612-9/abstract   termed &quot;infrequent but important complication&quot; circumcision can cause phimosis. Does this sound like a health benefit?

Yeast infections?(expanding on Hugh7) Stop using soap under the foreskin. Think about it. The inner mucosa is like the inside of the mouth and vagina. One wouldn&#039;t use soap there. The foreskin has many functions. One is maintaining a proper pH balance. Soap can wreck this balance unless the soap is pH balanced. Bubble bath is the worst. Run away if a website says to use soap. 

Remember this: 46,000 doctors and med. students , the KNMG: Royal Dutch Medical Association says &quot;There is no convincing evidence that circumcision is useful or necessary in terms of prevention or hygiene.&quot; This says it all!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Malpascheck says &#8220;No chance of phimosis&#8221;<br />
Wrong: <a href="http://www.jurology.com/article/S0022-5347(05)63612-9/abstract" rel="nofollow">http://www.jurology.com/article/S0022-5347(05)63612-9/abstract</a>   termed &#8220;infrequent but important complication&#8221; circumcision can cause phimosis. Does this sound like a health benefit?</p>
<p>Yeast infections?(expanding on Hugh7) Stop using soap under the foreskin. Think about it. The inner mucosa is like the inside of the mouth and vagina. One wouldn&#8217;t use soap there. The foreskin has many functions. One is maintaining a proper pH balance. Soap can wreck this balance unless the soap is pH balanced. Bubble bath is the worst. Run away if a website says to use soap. </p>
<p>Remember this: 46,000 doctors and med. students , the KNMG: Royal Dutch Medical Association says &#8220;There is no convincing evidence that circumcision is useful or necessary in terms of prevention or hygiene.&#8221; This says it all!</p>
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		<title>By: Robert</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think those advocating circumcision need a short course in the scientific method--along with an example of a critical analysis of the latest &quot;disease du Jour&quot; studies-- (HIV)..

http://mysite.verizon.net/dortfay/science.html]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think those advocating circumcision need a short course in the scientific method&#8211;along with an example of a critical analysis of the latest &#8220;disease du Jour&#8221; studies&#8211; (HIV)..</p>
<p><a href="http://mysite.verizon.net/dortfay/science.html" rel="nofollow">http://mysite.verizon.net/dortfay/science.html</a></p>
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