From: Bill Lucy 

In article ,
d_n_b{at}swbell.net says...

> Oh, I'm not saying that anyone alive today was cut to prevent
> masturbation, that's just the 19th century origin of circumcision for
> gentiles.  The practice persists because of habit, and because the
> hospital makes an extra couple of hundred bucks on the procedure, plus
> they sell the cut skins.  Also, families have their sons cut "to look
> like Dad."  No man wants to admit to himself that he's been
> mutillated, so the curse is passed on to another generation.

That last is probably the closest to the truth.

> The female genitalia present MUCH more of a hygene challenge than does
> a foreskin.  There's a real double standard going on here.

Although I am less familiar with female genitalia, I would agree.

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