Circumcision is grievous bodily harm, German judges rule

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221. The 'Russian Immigrant link' makes my

point. The people doing this are people who chose not to live as Jews while in Russia - now that they have emigrated to Israel they have decided to take up their religion and then undergo circumcision as adults. Nothing about that shows that it's preferable to have it done as an adult - merely that some decide to do it later in life.

Anesthesiologists I know would beg to differ with the very tentative conclusions about infant pain that the London doctor has come up with. And the point remains that the procedure in an adult is unquestionably painful - in many cases to a high degree. You still haven't told me from a practical standpoint why it's better to undergo a surgical procedure with full consciousness of pain as an adult rather than a momentary, non-remembered pain (if in fact there is pain perception at all) if the procedure is performed when only days old.

It appears that you agree that male circumcision is OK - just that it should be done on adults.