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| View Larger Image | Circumcision Exposed: Rethinking a Medical and Cultural Tradition | Paperbackby Billy Ray Boyd (Author)
| List Price: | $14.95 | |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Crossing Press | | Page Count: | 174 Pages | | Publication Date: | May 01, 1998 | | Sales Rank: | 1,295,773st |
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Product Description
An emotionally literate, culturally sensitive, yet fearless exploration of why the United States is the only country in the world to circumcise a majority of its baby boys for supposedly medical reasons. Includes various aspects of the practice, including its impact on sexuality. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 12 reviews)
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you owe it to your son by Natural Mommy (Northridge, CA United States)  5 Stars
November 02, 2006
If youre a parent, or are ever going to become one, you owe it to your child to know this stuff! Don't make an uninformed decision. Yes, this book is anti circumcision. There is plenty of pro circumcision pressure elsewhere. This may even they playing field. Once it does, think for yourself. Ask yourself if you feel in your heart that cutting off a part of an innocent babys genitals without his permission is okay. Ask yourself if you want to pay someone to this this heinous thing to your own child. Lastly, remind yourself that this is HIS body. If he wants to cut off part of his [...], he has plenty of time. And if he ever decides he wants a smaller [...] with less sensitivity, then it will be his decision to make. And you will feel good for allowing him to have rights over his own body. As far as the book, it is VERY informative and a good read as well. Remeber, just because our society practices this on a regular basis ( NO other society does) does not make it right. We also practiced slavery. Wrong is wrong. Stand up for the rights of our children!
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Finally! by DreamyDeppMama (Canada) 5 Stars
March 07, 2005
It's about time an un biased, factual book was written on this subject.
My sons are still intact and as perfect as they were the day they were born, but I will be buying more copies for my pregnant friends.
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Biased? I think not. by Prometheus 5 Stars
May 17, 2000
It's about time that this cruel practice was put in its place - in the history books (as far back in the history books as possible). This book goes a long way to helping us find ways to overcome the pressures of conformity and tradition.I can't believe there's still controversy over circumcision - something so obviously wrong that it pains me to think that supposedly intelligent people are still perpetrating this mindless abuse on their own children even as we move forward into the 21st century.To the religion argument: If God wanted men to be circumcised, we'd have been born without a foreskin.To the medical argument: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. When will doctors start practicing what they're taught - "First, do no harm".
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Too biased to be persuasive  1 Stars
April 12, 2000
This book is a diatribe against circumcision, not a study or balanced account. So the tone is more polemical than most readers would prefer. This is too bad, because the book contains a lot of accurate and useful information.
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I've ordered more copies of this fabulous book! 5 Stars
August 24, 1999
...this was a very good book...I've shared it with others and the response has been good so far...I really don't understand why people still circ their boys anymore since the rest of the world is fine not doing it
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