{"id":56,"date":"2007-08-24T08:36:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T08:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/feilerfaster\/2007\/08\/nudists-for-circumcision.html"},"modified":"2007-08-24T08:36:59","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T08:36:59","slug":"nudists-for-circumcision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/feilerfaster\/2007\/08\/nudists-for-circumcision.html","title":{"rendered":"Nudists for Circumcision"},"content":{"rendered":"

End of discussion<\/a>?<\/p>\n

I’m over age 60, and was circumcised at birth and don’t remember a thing about it. However, i have been a practicing nudist most of my life – and i can tell you that there have been times i wished that i had the protection of the foreskin, from scratches, abrasions – and especially from sunburn! I don’t believe that the Hebrews who initiated circumcision ever thout about protection – possibly bec they never dreamed of going about daily business in the buff. BTW, how can some rabbis condemn tattooing as defacing the body that G-d has given us, and yet condone circumcision? (i don’t have any tattoos – i don’t even like them)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Again, the biggest revelation, so to speak, in this conversation has been the number of people who argue in favor of circumcision because of appearance. Seems like a dangerous path to go down to me — Plastic surgery makes you more pious? More beautiful for God? Follow this commandment and you’ll feel better naked?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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