Fear of Circumcision

[Dan From Smithville]

Maybe a piercing would distract your many observers? Something gaudy and outlandish.

 

[exchemist]

It's a irrational fear. I know it to be. But lots of people know their fears are irrational, still have them.

Not all of them have delusions, however.

 

[Onasander]

Nation of Islam does hire themselves out as guards. Why is that hard to believe?

 

[Little Dragon]

It's a irrational fear. I know it to be. But lots of people know their fears are irrational, still have them.

I don't like spiders much. Creepy little monsters...

 

[Onasander]

I like spiders. I did get trapped under a black widow spider as a kid, 6 or so years old. Was in a swampy reed area, saw it hanging above off some thread. Freaked me out. I've seen endless amounts of people attack a bug called a Lantern Bug here this year. Mass genocide of them going on. I haven't killed a single one. Mostly women doing the killing. They make big screaming fits scenes, and go on a rampage stomping then run. My fear isn't that bad. Just keeps me away from social circumstance where I could be found out.

 

[Onasander]

See, same block of the embarcadero in SF. YMCA. If you look in you can see a reception office. They would guard in there.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Your profile says that you're Catholic. I don't understand why you concern yourself so much (to the point of paranoia) with the religious practices of the Jewish people -- which do not pertain to you. Do you have a problem with Jews?

In the US for quite a while it was automatic to circumcise young male babies in hospital births. Being circumcised told a person where you were born more than it told you their religion.

 

[Little Dragon]

I like spiders. I did get trapped under a black widow spider as a kid, 6 or so years old. Was in a swampy reed area, saw it hanging above off some thread. Freaked me out. I've seen endless amounts of people attack a bug called a Lantern Bug here this year. Mass genocide of them going on. I haven't killed a single one. Mostly women doing the killing. They make big screaming fits scenes, and go on a rampage stomping then run. My fear isn't that bad. Just keeps me away from social circumstance where I could be found out.

Oh god no, never kill a spider, extremely bad luck. I don't even kill the slugs that raid my tomatoes and flowers, I grow sunflowers just for them, they will make a beeline for sunflowers, ignoring the stuff I wanted to live. Sacrificial sunflowers, no need for war on the little slimy muthas.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Oh god no, never kill a spider, extremely bad luck. I don't even kill the slugs that raid my tomatoes and flowers, I grow sunflowers just for them, they will make a beeline for sunflowers, ignoring the stuff I wanted to live. Sacrificial sunflowers, no need for war on the little slimy muthas.

I will agree about spiders, slugs I am not so fond of. People that claim to have had a "spider bite" drive me nuts. Most spiders simply cannot bite people, nor are they interested in doing so. They eat insects and if one kills a spider one may have killed the spider that would have eaten the insect that bit that person. I am sure that slugs have their place, but I have stepped on them barefoot in the dark. Uughhgh!

 

[Jimmy]

I don’t think anyone cares

 

[Onasander]

I will agree about spiders, slugs I am not so fond of. People that claim to have had a "spider bite" drive me nuts. Most spiders simply cannot bite people, nor are they interested in doing so. They eat insects and if one kills a spider one may have killed the spider that would have eaten the insect that bit that person. I am sure that slugs have their place, but I have stepped on them barefoot in the dark. Uughhgh!

There is a species of spider here in the Ohio Valley who's bite does eat through the skin. Every now and again I see someone bandaged up from it.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

There is a species of spider here in the Ohio Valley who's bite does eat through the skin. Every now and again I see someone bandaged up from it.

Based on your rough description of the wounding and on the fact that the range includes part of what is loosely referred to as the Ohio Valley, it is likely you are referring to the brown recluse spider (Loxosceles reclusa). These are web-building spiders that hunt and are often found indoors, but are not limited to those conditions and are found outdoors as well. They prefer dry, dark and out of the way places with what may be some sort of affinity for cardboard boxes. They posses a necrotic venom that can require medical attention from tissue damage at the bite.

If you keep things picked up and prevent or limit the presence of their insect prey, that can help minimize their numbers in your home. Sticky traps can also help.

To put a little perspective on it, being bitten is a more important issue than a foreskin, unless you get bitten on it.

 

[JustGeorge]

It's a irrational fear. I know it to be. But lots of people know their fears are irrational, still have them.

This sounds like it would be a pretty disruptive fear. What are you doing to overcome it?

 

[Little Dragon]

Based on your rough description of the wounding and on the fact that the range includes part of what is loosely referred to as the Ohio Valley, it is likely you are referring to the brown recluse spider (Loxosceles reclusa). These are web-building spiders that hunt and are often found indoors, but are not limited to those conditions and are found outdoors as well. They prefer dry, dark and out of the way places with what may be some sort of affinity for cardboard boxes. They posses a necrotic venom that can require medical attention from tissue damage at the bite.

If you keep things picked up and prevent or limit the presence of their insect prey, that can help minimize their numbers in your home. Sticky traps can also help.

To put a little perspective on it, being bitten is a more important issue than a foreskin, unless you get bitten on it.

Ohio Valley, cardboard boxes, vicious little toxic arachnid. Gotcha!

 

[Onasander]

This sounds like it would be a pretty disruptive fear. What are you doing to overcome it?

Nothing.

 

[JustGeorge]

Nothing.

Why not?

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Ohio Valley, cardboard boxes, vicious little toxic arachnid. Gotcha!

Like a lot of animals, they tend to flee rather than fight. There are exceptions to this generality, but thankfully the brown recluse follows it mostly. Venom being expensive to manufacture and encounters potentially as dangerous to the spider or worse, they seem to prefer discretion.

I understand the imported Chilean recluse found in California may be a little more aggressive.

One important detail I neglected to mention is that these spiders have a distinct marking on their cephalothorax that bears a striking resemblance to a violin.

 

[JustGeorge]

Like a lot of animals, they tend to flee rather than fight. There are exceptions to this generality, but thankfully the brown recluse follows it mostly. Venom being expensive to manufacture and encounters potentially as dangerous to the spider or worse, they seem to prefer discretion.

I understand the imported Chilean recluse found in California may be a little more aggressive.

One important detail I neglected to mention is that these spiders have a distinct marking on their cephalothorax that bears a striking resemblance to a violin.

They're not real big, are they?

 

[Dan From Smithville]

They're not real big, are they?

Their stance is with legs splayed, so a large example would fit over the space a penny takes up. Much smaller than Argiope, the yellow garden spider for comparison.

 

[JustGeorge]

Their stance is with legs splayed, so a large example would fit over the space a penny takes up. Much smaller than Argiope, the yellow garden spider for comparison.

Pretty small, then.

We get a lot of big brown spiders, and I can never tell what's what.