Re: Male Virginity EXPLANATION
ljcdal@ac.dal.ca
31 Oct 95 02:16:00 -0400
In article <46ncss$7gu@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>, nakis@ix.netcom.com (Michael Nakis ) writes:
> The following was originally posted in sci.archaeology, but I am replying
> to it in sci.anthropology so as not to bug the Archaeologists.
You should do the anthropologists a favour, and decide not to bug them either.
>
> In <46n7a9$llm@newsbf02.news.aol.com> esilver291@aol.com (ESilver291)
> writes:
>
stuff snipped out
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>>Eric "a lurker"
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>
> These are all questionable statements. Even if they are correct, they
> may perhaps be regarded as potential "benefits" of circumcision, but none
> of them could be seriously suggested as a "reason" for the invention of
> the ritual.
You're going to give a lecture on "reasons" for circumcision?
>
> Whether circumcision has any practical benefits or not as far as
> cleanliness is concerned is highly debatable. But even if we accept it
Well, you know about highly questionable suggestions!
>
> In fact, genital mutilation is such a drastic and desperate measure, that
> all these attempts to explain it without taking into consideration my
> Male Virginity Hypothesis sound rather whimsical.
>
Yes, you know about whimsical, too.
> Michael Nakis.
>
Isn't there an alt.fairytale group that you should be posting to?
Don't I hear your mother calling you?
LC
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