[ExI] Circumcision

[Keith Henson]

My daughter and son in law decided to circumcise my grandson.  I had
no idea this was still being done, my error in not keeping up with
this frankly disgusting subject.

It was also presented to me after it happened in the worst way
possible.  I won't say a lot more except I have a 420 card which helps
a lot with back spasms, but makes a person particularly sensitive to
emotionally upsetting news.

I would not bring this up here at all, but I am committed to reducing
the incident of this unnecessary "medical" and  in my opinion barbaric
procedure of cutting off a most sensitive part of a male's anatomy.
It was done to me as a baby and as I have gotten older, it has caused
me increasingly serious problems.  It has (at least for the time
being) destroyed my relation to daughter, son in law, and new grandson

One of the "justifications" for them doing it, is that my daughter
could not find arguments on the net against circumcision that met her
standards for objective research.  She figured that the men who had it
done to them and later thought it was a bad idea were some of the
small number where the circumcision had been botched.

There are certainly some who fit that classification,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer

We have some people here who are good at designing research studies.
I would like to figure out a scientifically valid study.  The rate of
circumcisions has fallen to slightly under 80% in the US and (from
hearsay) is around 50% in California.  That should be enough to
recruit a significant number of men who were and were not circumcised.
I want valid data that can stand peer review and am willing to spend
thousands of dollars to get it and put it on the net.

I would be interested in data of how list members feel about what was
or was not done to them, but it's more important to get a good study
design that will produce data that would stand up to peer review.

Advice on a study or pointers to people who could design a study or
vet the methodology would be highly appreciated.

Keith