Oh that's right, you were in Holland .. I was wondering where you'd gone off to!
Don't tell me you've been in my area and not told me about it!!!

I did tell you where i would be when you asked last week,but when you didn't comment,i just assumed i wasn't anywhere close.I was in Middleburg and Geleen...

YOu got to be effing kidding me???? Middelburg is 40 km from my home!
I haven't seen your reply, otherwise I would've come over to see you.

Seriously ? It was a great night too,with other acts on around the town.I played for three and a half hours,but a constant supply of free beer helped

the appendix actually has some immune function... lol...like tonsils...in children, the immune function and defenses are not yet fully developed... but as nature goes, we mature and so does the immune system and eventually the tonsils regress to something we can live without. i dont know if the appendix normally enlarges and shrinks during this process as well, but the immune function does play a role in gut protection as children start eating and are exposed to different foods and germs... but we can still live normal lives without them...lol..

as for the foreskin... as far as i've read, it served to protect the penis while baby boy was inside the womb... other than that, not much else ive found...

hope this information helps ^^^

lol... i believe in mother nature ... as much as i believe in science and the wisdom of traditional health practices...

The appendix is a nuisance, I've had grumbling appendix for years.

We can agree that even nature is not perfect. Tonsils is another good example of nuisance body parts.

yeah... as an exception, things can go wrong sometimes...
hope it improves sooner than later...

Thanks. I've had it for a long time, and I just get flare ups every now and again. Doesn't really bother me.

I've had my tonsils out, I was about 27 I think, it wasn't pleasant, I had complications, heavy bleeding, severe swelling and infection. They drugged me up so much in hospital I don't remember much, but I remember coming home and getting a infection, not nice!! But saying that, all worth it!! Better than getting tonsillitis every month.

yes... most have it taken out younger... but never as a preventive measure...
important to be thankful for what good health we still have... be well

I reading this thread and all of the pros and cons written, I started to wonder a bit as to why me and my 3 brothers we circumcised. I don't believe it was a religious reason or a era reason.

I think my father just wanted us to have a nice looking aerodynamic piece down there.. like him. I guess he figured,if it worked for him (there were 8 of us kids.. and Mom seemed happy) it would work for us to.

Now that's a father looking out for his sons future!!..... THANKS Dad !!!

I reading this thread and all of the pros and cons written, I started to wonder a bit as to why me and my 3 brothers we circumcised. I don't believe it was a religious reason or a era reason.

I think my father just wanted us to have a nice looking aerodynamic piece down there.. like him. I guess he figured,if it worked for him (there were 8 of us kids.. and Mom seemed happy) it would work for us to.

Now that's a father looking out for his sons future!!..... THANKS Dad !!!

the dorsal hood technique does not take away the frenulum... it's the most common technique done in our country, and probably the simplest, overall...but i imagine it is technically challenging and quite risky to do in a baby, due to the small size, and lack of ability to cooperate and stay still during the procedure...

tealbreeze stated >>>
I noted in Crystal's article that circumcision is called penile reduction surgery....I wonder if circumcision contributes to the "crooked" ones that are out there? Being that maybe too much of the skin was removed? I've seen scaring well below the top of the shaft down to the middle on some.

and Pansy....you say that this procedure is performed on 13 year olds in your country? Do they complain of pain, compared to a baby who will not remember?

There's a group of us {8 close gal friends, from high school days through college} and we have 8 boys...all born in 1976 {that was a huge year for boys} and out of those 8 - 6 chose to have our boys circumcised and 2 chose not too.

I remember once after the last baby boy was born {they avg 2-3 months separation for the most part} one of the un-circumcised moms started asking the rest of us about 'Why, we had decided to do that to our little boys'? And the consensus was - the 'Dad's demanded it!' Had it been left up to us mothers we would not have put our little baby boys through that barbaric 'snip & cut'; but our men folk wouldn't be persuaded otherwise!

While I've found this topic fascinating - it does make me wonder; is it the 'NORM' for the DADS to insist that their little boys get circumcised or is it the mom's decision or both?
BTW - none of us were of the Jewish faith, so it wasn't based on religion. There have been times that I still recall hearing my baby scream in that room where they did that procedure and it haunts me that I didn't stand my ground about that!