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 Author Michael Chabon Opposes Circumcision

Author Michael Chabon Opposes Circumcision

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon, best known for his novels The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen's Union, has a memoir called Manhood for Amateurs coming out this fall. Among other subjects, the book covers his life with wife - and fellow author - Ayelet Waldman and their four children. Today's Page Six has a blurb about Chabon and the comments he makes about circumcision in Manhood:

"Mutilation [is] the only honest name for this raw act that my wife and I have twice invited men with knives to come into our house and perform, in the presence of all our friends and family, with a nice buffet and Weekend Cake from Just Desserts... We have been through all of the standard arguments -- hygiene, cancer prevention, psychological fitness, the Zero Mostel tradition . . . and found they are all debatable at best.

First Shalom Auslander, then Sam Apple, and now this? Seems like today's male Jewish author really has issues with the covenant of circumcision. 



 
Sandori

Sandori


50+ years of doing the "wild thing" with myself and others has
left me well, in my opinion-reasoned with experience. Not only have I
discovered over the years that increasingly it became more and more difficult
to achieve the desired feeling necessary to achieve orgasm, but orgasm inside
my mate even more so. I attribute this loss of sensitivity of my organ to the
loss of my foreskin soon after birth and the use of a rough hand during masturbation.
The inside of a woman’s vagina being more supple than a hand, became foreign to
an organ conditioned to the later. Another thing that I have noticed over the
years is the desire for more and more erotic pornographic viewing. This supplemented for the lack of stimulation I was receiving, as achieving orgasm
was becoming quite a chore. Some of the women in my life enjoyed the longevity,
however; others would take it personally.
A study was done in Africa recently where 15-49 year olds had their
foreskins whacked off and two years later asked to report on sensitivity. To
that I simply say, "hogwash"...Two years exposure of the head of a
penis that has been covered for 15-49 years will give you no realistic
scientific results as most in modern society have them removed soon after
birth...Maybe later we can see an article about who benefits financially from
circumcision..For that is what it is really all about.




Sandori

Sandori


Well look here...I found the answer I was looking for.

From: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

The cost in dollars of excising 1,287,000 foreskins is substantial.

Demetrakopoulos(13) estimated that circumcising 100 percent of the 1,822,910 born in 1971 would have cost 200 million dollars. A lower figure is probably more accurate. With a physician's fee of $25 and an instrument fee of $15 per case, the cost of circumcising 1,287,000 would be approximately 51 million dollars.

[CIRP note: The average cost of a non-therapeutic neonatal circumcision in the United States in 1998 is over US$200.00, so the total cost is over $200 million.

Mansfield et al. report that additional hospital costs add another $450 million in 1990 dollars.]

http://www.cirp.org/library/general/grimes/

13. Demetrakopoulos, G. E.: A different view of the facts. Pediatrics 56: 339, 1975.




rabeee

rabeee


The illustrious writer Paul, best known
for his letters to Romans and
Corinthians among others, wrote against circumcision about
2000 years ago.





Herbert Kaine

Herbert Kaine


I'll bet Mr Chabon doesnt have a problem with female circumcision because it is practiced by real religions, unlike Judaism. I challenge Mr Chabon to try to graft a foreskin back onto himself, and take transplant drugs daily to prevent the foreskin from being rejected by his immune system