To both of you on what has been an interesting trail of thoughts / arguments;
I've known two guys who have had partial or complete circumcision later in life due to medical reasons. (one was for getting it stuck in a zipper and the ensuing infection just would not heal without it being removed.) In both cases they expressed a preference for being circumcised young because as an adult, way way *way* more painful (so I'm told). As to sexual sensitivity or performance, no difference for one, the other actually preferred it because he felt he was more sensitive.
As to vaccination, don't know if either of you read my recent post, and refrained from commenting out of politeness, but I see the issue of vaccination as a bigger one. Just recently had a friend who almost lost their baby *because* of a severe reaction to a vaccination, and they are now doing a lot of research and seriously considering how they proceed forward. Like me, they still plan to have their child vaccinated against most things, but are looking at delaying the schedule so as to avoid immediate risks. Seriously, when you are talking about taking a child under 6 months of age who has little to no immunity of their own, their is a world of difference to injecting a live virus into them as opposed to them contracting it through 'normal' means. In SA where there has only been one active case of Measles in the past 12 months, the risk of catching that (and then suffering the worst) is actually lower than the risk of an adverse reaction to the vaccination. The studies I looked at also did not give a break down of cultural backgrounds, but sadly my gut feel is that I think the aboriginal communities probably fair worse in most of these things. In the majority of cases where someone contracted one virus or another, the vaccination status was listed as 'unknown'.
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I've known two guys who have had partial or complete circumcision later in life due to medical reasons. (one was for getting it stuck in a zipper and the ensuing infection just would not heal without it being removed.) In both cases they expressed a preference for being circumcised young because as an adult, way way *way* more painful (so I'm told). As to sexual sensitivity or performance, no difference for one, the other actually preferred it because he felt he was more sensitive.
As to vaccination, don't know if either of you read my recent post, and refrained from commenting out of politeness, but I see the issue of vaccination as a bigger one. Just recently had a friend who almost lost their baby *because* of a severe reaction to a vaccination, and they are now doing a lot of research and seriously considering how they proceed forward. Like me, they still plan to have their child vaccinated against most things, but are looking at delaying the schedule so as to avoid immediate risks. Seriously, when you are talking about taking a child under 6 months of age who has little to no immunity of their own, their is a world of difference to injecting a live virus into them as opposed to them contracting it through 'normal' means. In SA where there has only been one active case of Measles in the past 12 months, the risk of catching that (and then suffering the worst) is actually lower than the risk of an adverse reaction to the vaccination. The studies I looked at also did not give a break down of cultural backgrounds, but sadly my gut feel is that I think the aboriginal communities probably fair worse in most of these things. In the majority of cases where someone contracted one virus or another, the vaccination status was listed as 'unknown'.