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   From: miketwofeathers@gmail.com   
      
   Special Care wrote:   
   > On 21 Sep, 10:35, The Todal  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Having a child circumcised for religious reasons is essentially no   
   >> different from having it christened. The aim is to ensure that the child   
   >> is accepted as part of a community. Not imposing the parent's will for   
   >> its own sake.   
   >   
   > ---   
   > How can you say that? It's a big subject; but to mutilate a child's   
   > body, that's in a different category to social control.   
   >   
      
   it was found before religion that cutting slowed down the children's   
   desire for sex in the tribe, and eventually progressed to a religious   
   thing. you would have to go back way before civilized cities and such to   
   find it.   
      
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