Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Cir pt. 2

Sorry, i was getting lost in the longer thread below. I hope I answered your questions.

For you : You say "the theory I heard was micro tears". Do you know that a search of pubmed and Science Citation will not give you one study on "micro tear penis". or "microtear penis". It's a guess, to try to give a "cause" why it *might* be possible.

But again, before I'm going to tell anyoen to cut parts of their child off, i want to know more than "it's a guess'. I want a study showing that a man having sex with his partner has more or less micro tears than a circumcised man.  Those studies do not exist.

You do know "correlation does not = causation". Before I advocate any medical procedure at all, much less one that is surgical, i want more than a correlation. But you are willing to toss that out for these studies. But this is why I remain dubious. Give me more. Show me a cause, then fine we'll look at % effectiveness. But you can't say something is effective if you don't even have a cuase.

you also asked "when would i require someone do a medical procedure". I have to say, if it's disfiguring a child, i'm not sure I'd ever require it for PREVENTION. Yes, if it is curing something, you have gangreen or whatever, of course. but not for prevention. And doubly, tripply so when there are effective and well understood preventive measures that do not involve cutting a child.