In article >,
Omelet > wrote:

> In article >,
> sf > wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:16:12 +1300, Miche > wrote:
> >
> > > As a New Zealander and a woman, I want to add that circumcision is
> > > unusual here.
> >
> > It's very usual here.
>
> Fortunately, that "usual" is getting to be less common. ;-)

I am always a little leery of people saying things like "It's very usual
here". Is it "usual" for sf's aged husband (I'm guessing he's my age).
Is it "usual" for sf's 34 year old son? We all know that circumcision
used to be very usual in the US many years ago. The question is not
whether most old men are circumcised. That's just a given. The
question is to what extent it is still being performed.

GIMF:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/...entry_id=77266

The above article is about a petition drive to put a law on the ballot
in SF next November, to make circumcision ILLEGAL for other than
immediate medical necessity. No religious circumcisions.

It doesn't sound to me like the people in SF, where sf lives, consider
it to be all that "usual".

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA