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DR Sitaleki Finau, Massey's Director Pasifika, says, "in light of studies suggesting the procedure male circumcision, has health benefits for men and women as well as being considered important to Pacific people ... yep a traditional rite/procedure there too, not just specific to the jews or 'civilised americans.'.
The studies show male circumcision helps prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, including Aids, and there was a proven link between circumcised men and a decrease in cervical cancer caused by the human pampilloma virus
Dr Thomson, bless his innovative heart, has performed more than 6000 circumcisions in his private clinic in the past 30 years using a non-surgical device attached to the penis that causes the foreskin to come off in a few days ... not a single penis has dropped off, nor decayed as a consequence of the attached organism dying.
Mind you, I believe a string of dessicated foreskins make for a very fine & distinctive necklace that is perceived with fondness by Pacifica peoples.
There was a time when mental illnes was seen as an artefact of maturbatory behaviour and numerous thousand women were clitoridectomised as a consequence - a significanly lesser number of men were emasculated.
Is this a revisitation of this?
Without foreskins are there fewer wankers in the world?
Should we really pull everybody's teeth for fear of tooth decay, or should we teach them something about the importance of personal hygiene?
Is the next thing that female circumcision is to be deemed 'culturally appropriate' and 'healthy?'
There has to be something proper about going through life au naturel, according to design rather than anthropogenic artistry.

But, there's more ... Professor Sitaleki Finau from Massey University says there is a proven link between men being circumcised and lower rates of cervical cancer caused by infections.
He says if the Government is serious about preventing diseases among Pacific people, then it should fund the 170-dollar snip.
Sitaleki Finau says the Government needs to maintain cultural values as traditionally Pacific Islanders have been circumcised and funding the procedure is one way to achieve that.

Perhaps, just sometimes there is good reason for cultural values to change just a little ... like perhaps having a shower, or even just a gentle genital area scrubdown daily.
But subsidising an operation because a cultural group view uncleanliness as an inherent and important part of their culture which requires circumcision as a disease prevention ... gosh.
It wont take a lot for these culturally important practices to become infectious cross culturally.