[lbo-talk] Re: circumcision

[jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net]

> And there's no need for westrners to feel superior. We slice ourselves 
> up all the time, and we don't even have the excuse that we're five years 
> old and someone is doing it to us. Most of plastic surgery is equally 
> barbaric, and as I mentioned yesterday five female infants a day get 
> their clitorises cut off in the U.S. every day because some adult 
> decides they are too big.
> 
> So, if you want to avoid cultural superiority, there's plenty to fight 
> on our own turf.
> 
> Joanna

Can you provide some data to support this? I used to work in a hospital and 
my recollection was that this was very rare. Admittedly I didn't work in 
maternity but I knew doctors and others who did and this just sounds wrong 
to me. Maybe things have changed that much in 13 years?

John Thornton