Friday, June 16, 2006
A Clear Case of Penis Envy
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This looks to me like a clear case of penis envy. What a juicy story! Here's the gist of it:
A father is fighting his ex-wife in court concerning the wife's intention to circumcise their eight year old son. The wife has custody but the father retains certain rights, including, apparently, the right to refuse permission for the, uh, 'procedure.' The wife claims she is acting in her son's best interest, citing several cases of 'painful inflamation' which she blames on the child's foreskin.
She thinks that circumcision will cure the problem.
Complicating matters somewhat is the fact that she recently married a Jew who also has a son who is presumably circumcised. Further complicating matters is the probability that the Judge (Kaplan) is also a (circumcised) Jew. Kaplan, who will be deciding the case in lieu of a jury, appeared quite sensitive about the question of whether the Jewish husband is circumcised declaring, 'We're not going there.'
Nobody seems to have asked the boy who owns the 'defective' penis whether he wants the problem cured or cut off. I would suggest asking the boy.
I would further suggest instructing the mother and child concerning how to wash the child's genital area including how to skin a dick back, soap it up, rinse it off, then skin it forward again. Takes about 3 or 4 seconds once you get the hang of it.
This looks to me like a clear case of penis envy. What a juicy story! Here's the gist of it:
A father is fighting his ex-wife in court concerning the wife's intention to circumcise their eight year old son. The wife has custody but the father retains certain rights, including, apparently, the right to refuse permission for the, uh, 'procedure.' The wife claims she is acting in her son's best interest, citing several cases of 'painful inflamation' which she blames on the child's foreskin.
She thinks that circumcision will cure the problem.
Complicating matters somewhat is the fact that she recently married a Jew who also has a son who is presumably circumcised. Further complicating matters is the probability that the Judge (Kaplan) is also a (circumcised) Jew. Kaplan, who will be deciding the case in lieu of a jury, appeared quite sensitive about the question of whether the Jewish husband is circumcised declaring, 'We're not going there.'
Nobody seems to have asked the boy who owns the 'defective' penis whether he wants the problem cured or cut off. I would suggest asking the boy.
I would further suggest instructing the mother and child concerning how to wash the child's genital area including how to skin a dick back, soap it up, rinse it off, then skin it forward again. Takes about 3 or 4 seconds once you get the hang of it.
