Crazy can be hot...

Then what does one do to de-gunk under the foreskin? Circumcised minds are inquiring!

For the record, I'm Jewish and understand the role that the bris plays in our culture. Also, it's possible for a culture to have archaic (ill-advised, silly, etc) practices without the entire culture being archaic. Ironically, our culture values learning and self-criticism yet the suggestion that a bris doesn't mean…

In which case, your ears and toes are going to also be a problem. (And foot problems are very serious for the homeless: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… )

One of my friends from college and his wife (who's from Argentina originally) decided not to have their son circumcised. They did some googling on how to care for the baby when he's small and what to teach him, and spoke to her dad, who's a doctor in Australia, and that was enough.

That's it, that's what he was describing to me. (I was rather fascinated with the whole concept, having someone who spoke English explain it, unlike my time in Europe, lol) This wasn't a problem for him, because his parents were familiar with foreskin-care being taught as another element of hygiene lessons for kids.

I knew a guy, born in the US, whose parents were from Portugal and he was uncut. He was taught as a little kid how to take care of his foreskin— washing it and making sure to roll it back every time he bathed. It's really no different than teaching kids to brush their teeth and wash their ears, but then again, if Dad…

I'm circumcised and had a UTI once (one of the worse experiences of my life, actually).

When I lived in Eastern Europe, I "made a friend," who was horrified when I explained (in broken Eastern European-ese) that, "In America, we don't have these." The look on his face was akin to that if someone had said to an American, "in my country, we cut our ears off."

But if your organs aren't functioning well,...

I have a relative who was carrying on about her juice diet (or whatever) and she was saying how she can "feel the juice cleaning out her kidneys." She got slightly annoyed with me when I pointed out that's not how kidneys work, actually. (Way to go (what I remember of my) 10th grade physiology class!)

Just think of the entertaining permutations.... *pant*

I volunteer too!!!!!!!!!!!

*swoon*

I don't get why Garage is 'die' when it's a borrowed word— why not 'das'? Because it ends in -e?? (Then again, these things aren't really logical, they just are.)

I was 17 and had plenty of hair everywhere, thx. This was the first time I had ever seen such a thing, and being American, it was unusual to me. This is why one travels! Anyway, whatever people want to do about shaving (or not) is fine by me. I don't shave my pits or legs so I can understand why that would be…

Perhaps, but either way, who cares if she has hairy pits or not?

Madonna lives in Europe, mostly. How is armpit hair shocking with this fact in mind? (True story: as an exchange student in Central Europe in high school, I had to pretend not to be horrified when my host mother lifted her arms to adjust her hair while wearing a tanktop— she had more hair under her arms than I did.)

The cats were quoted as saying, I'm in ur capital, overthrowin ur d00ds!