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Wow katie, had no idea... FREAKY  Thanks for the inside info. Saludos, jer...
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| Posts: 12236 | Location: ny, u.s.a. --> madrid, spain --> the plaza mayor ! | Registered: 30 June 1998 | |
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Katie- I had no idea! But that's not why for me! ![[Embarassed]](redface.gif) My earring got caught in the playpin net when I was a baby and it snagged So it didn't tear- but it brought the hole lower than it was- it doesn't help that I have small earlobes!!!  Oh well! C'est la vie! 
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| Posts: 387 | Location: Madrid | Registered: 19 October 2002 | |
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I got my ears pierced in Spain as an exchange student in 1962, when very few American girls had pierced ears. My mom was furious! Kids in my high school thought I was a freak! Here's another baby custom to discuss: routine circumcision---done or not in Spain? My Spanish brother was circumcised not long before he was married! Everyone joked about it. Here,for years it has been a hygenic rather than a religious practice----except that now recently there is a movement which somehow considers male circumcision to be a "mutilation" not unlike some of those things foisted on girls in some parts of the world. Routine? Not?
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| Posts: 479 | Location: ROCKFORD,MI, USA | Registered: 23 May 2001 | |
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Hey Sue, ok, now that you went there... I too have heard of that "mutation" theory as related to circumcision and it is assenine. Supporters of that theory on circumcision also say that we should not change what god gave us in that manner. Ok, we also lose like 10 layers of skin when we shower or wash up, does that mean it is mutation as it is not natural to rub your skin off  Saludos, jer...
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| Posts: 12236 | Location: ny, u.s.a. --> madrid, spain --> the plaza mayor ! | Registered: 30 June 1998 | |
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Its not standard practice. Actually I heard that the US had adapted doing it as a hygene issue, unless you were Jewish- and since they knew you'd do it- they left it to the parents. However, again excluding the Jewish religion- as its a part of their culture- I haven't heard about the 'mutalation' issue, but have heard (again in the US) that doctors are leaning away from it, as contrary to what was believed, it doesn't help hygene as previously thought (similiar to the old school thought about it being a bad thing for women to wash when they had their monthly visitor! ewwwwwww!!!!)- but that it was an unnecessary practice that only inflicted harm on an infant and for those outside the Jewish religion- it holds no purpose. So just because of cosmetics- they're skipping it! As for Spain, well, before the 80's they didn't. I have a nephew born recently, but I don't know if they did or not. Anyone care to answer this one?
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| Posts: 387 | Location: Madrid | Registered: 19 October 2002 | |
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