Fear of Circumcision

[JustGeorge]

Just be careful and observant. I have had them get on me in a number of different circumstances with no issues as long as I didn't hit them or trap them.

I worked for the state as a naturalist while in college. One evening while I was preparing for a park program, my boss came into the office. She said, "Hold still" and then flicked something on my forehead near my right temple. I didn't even look up. Just said, "Brown recluse?" Her response was, "Yeah. A little one".

The office was in an old CCC cabin constructed in the 30's like many if not most of the park buildings. They were infested with a healthy population of brown recluse spiders that we sort of co-existed with. You learn not to swat everything that tickles your skin.

What's the best way of handling it if you find one on you?

@John53 lives in a place where many creatures with dangerously powerful and exotic neurotoxins hang out and they still manage to get on.

Not even they want @John53 cooties.

 

[John53]

@John53 lives in a place where many creatures with dangerously powerful and exotic neurotoxins hang out and they still manage to get on.

I'm not sure about the cantaloupes there, but I'd keep a watchful eye just in case they tingle at you.

We fixed the cantaloupe problem by calling them rock melons.

Cantaloupe - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Dan From Smithville]

What's the best way of handling it if you find one on you?

If it is on your arm or leg, you could move to let it run off on its own. Flicking it off or gently brushing it off has worked. Don't trap it or press on it if that can be avoided.

If they are in your clothes with you, it may be necessary to carefully remove the garment and shake them out of it or remove it from your person if they stay with you rather than the garment.

The best way is to stay alert for them where you might encounter them, so they don't end up on you. Good hygiene is beneficial to removing food sources and hiding places. Good lighting. Ideals that may not always be possible, but useful where possible.

Traps and directed spraying if there are large numbers and sensitive individuals in residence. Fumigation or heat treating can pretty much eliminate everything that is in a home and leave it pest free for some time, though this varies with region and season.

Growing up, I never saw any in my parents house to my recollection. One day in my early 20's, I was doing some work in the attic. While laying on my side and installing some waferboard, I happened to see a shed exoskeleton of one. I was delighted to see that you could still identify it even in that state. But apparently there were there and may have been there since we moved in without any incident.

I never worried about them. It was the thing that lived in my closet until I was 9 that really stirred me up.

Not even they want @John53 cooties.

He hasn't posted any pictures of those. Is he holding out on us?

 

[JustGeorge]

I never worried about them. It was the thing that lived in my closet until I was 9 that really stirred me up.

He hasn't posted any pictures of those. Is he holding out on us?

That was what was living in your closet.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

That was what was living in your closet.

I'm glad it moved out and went to live with its family in Australia. That was close.

 

[Rachel Rugelach]

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.

Yeh, I get that. Thanks, SZ. I guess I was a little startled to read where the OP said that he had "a creeping feeling" that Jews were out to cut his willy. I was, like: "Do whut?"

But, hey, at lease the OP appreciates all the cantaloupe the Jews gave him.

@John53, I'll remember that you Aussies call them "rock melons." Sounds like a euphemism for really big bollocks.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I'd keep away from cigar cutters, then, if I were you*.

Oh and avoid calamari rings in Italian restaurants.


* One of my brothers once had a cigar cutter confiscated at an airport security check. We wondered what a terrorist could possibly do with one of those. Threaten to circumcise the pilot perhaps? The joke was that cigar cutters were on sale in one of the airport shops! So he just bought another before getting on the plane.

I really enjoy calamari, but now that is going to be in my head.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Yeh, I get that. Thanks, SZ. I guess I was a little startled to read where the OP said that he had "a creeping feeling" that Jews were out to cut his willy. I was, like: "Do whut?"

But, hey, at lease the OP appreciates all the cantaloupe the Jews gave him.

@John53, I'll remember that you Aussies call them "rock melons." Sounds like a euphemism for really big bollocks.

Well his fears are not totally misplaced. According to the Bible one used to be able to buy a wife that way:

David took his men with him and went out and killed two hundred Philistines and brought back their foreskins. They counted out the full number to the king so that David might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

Speaking of that are you married? I could be tempted to start up a collection of my own.

 

[Onasander]

I think the groups with the biggest phobia aren't around jews but marrying into Muslim communities.... I've heard of violent chases and insistence they get the chop. Hence my mention of Indonesia. I've heard of liberal jews of some sect just pricking it to draw blood out by sucking on the foreskin (going off memory, was fairly repulsed).

Basically I like reading Jewish history but my equipment doesn't match up. It causes alot of duress. I was actually disappointed when I took my DNA test and saw no Jewish ancestry.

 

[John53]

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.

Same in Aus and that's how they got me. And the doc slipped and took off too much

 

[Subduction Zone]

Same in Aus and that's how they got me. And the doc slipped and took off too much

Ow!! Well it is a good thing that there is nothing barbaric about it at all then.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

I'd keep away from cigar cutters, then, if I were you*.

Oh and avoid calamari rings in Italian restaurants.

And pinking shears!

 

[Quagmire]

Same in Aus and that's how they got me. And the doc slipped and took off too much

( psst, thanks, I'm going to use that)

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

No need to pick on me. I've read through several circumcision threads on this site, none address the social stigma of the uncircumcised child.

Oh, it's not just the uncircumcised. If I recall, Shakespeare's Othello said,

"And say besides that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
I took by th’ throat the circumcised dog
And smote him thus."

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

In the UK circumcision is not practiced outside of jewish and muslim communities (as in Europe in general). It's not a stigma here. So come to the UK, your willy is safe, relatively.

Not entirely true. About 20% of men are circ'd in Britain -- with a higher percentage among the aristocracy.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

They hire them out in SF, the Nation of Islam. I lived by their mosque in Hunters Point for a while along the T Line, kids always trying to sell me pies.

But it isn't just a Jewish custom. It's a majority American custom. I'm the odd man out due to a impressionable woman hearing it is wrong to mutilate a child. It's not the case. Everyone here repeats the line. Most Americans get circumcised. Being different can cause a complex to develop.

Oddly, the Republic of Korea and the Philippines also have high rates of circumcision.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Same in Aus and that's how they got me. And the doc slipped and took off too much

Dang! I'm not sure what that means, but it doesn't sound good.

 

[Rachel Rugelach]

Well his fears are not totally misplaced. According to the Bible one used to be able to buy a wife that way:

David took his men with him and went out and killed two hundred Philistines and brought back their foreskins. They counted out the full number to the king so that David might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

Speaking of that are you married? I could be tempted to start up a collection of my own.

Aw...!

If you were married to me, I'd probably drive you meshugah. Anyway, I dedicate this song to you, @Subduction Zone:

Don't bring me cantaloupe,
I'll only tell you "Nope!"

Don't bring me foreskins,
I might ask for more skins.

Rachel Ruge-oo-la-la
Says: Bring me brew (ha-ha!)

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Until this thread, I was just afraid of the dark. Or at least a fan of the song.

Now I've got to worry about rogue circumcisionists riding out of the hills with their hedge shears dull and rusty and looking to make money on gratuities alone.

This world gets more complicated all the time.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Until this thread, I was just afraid of the dark. Or at least a fan of the song.

Now I've got to worry about rogue circumcisionists riding out of the hills with their hedge shears dull and rusty and looking to make money on gratuities alone.

This world gets more complicated all the time.

LOL! No worries here. I was born in a hospital.