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Is metzitzah b’peh legal in Ireland?

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    Grolschevik
    Registered Users Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭Grolschevik


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    upsetting Jewish practice

    Upsetting how? It's completely non-sexual, being just a traditional way of staunching a wound.
    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    I think it's something that needs to be banned if it's not. I/nyc_health_commissioner_condemns_metzitzah_bpeh_20120607/[/url]

    Why? Health risks, or some sort of argument that it's sexual abuse? Health risks aside, this shouldn't be lumped into a "villagers with pichforks" type kneejerk.

    It may seem weird, but it's literally just licking [your] wounds.

    On legality, I have no idea.


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    Pkiernan
    Registered Users Posts: 4,315 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


    It is part of the barbaric practice of male infant genital mutilation.


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    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 28,120 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Pkiernan wrote: »
    It is part of the barbaric practice of male infant genital mutilation.

    Yea I know that but it seem legal. Should it not be banned or we could end up in a situation in 20 years that the young Jews in the country are suing the State for not protecting them.
    Seem strange we would allow this after everything that's happened here.


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    LazyFecker
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭LazyFecker


    It is just another form of circumcision... how "barbaric" it is is simply down to OP's own upbringing and personal subjective sensitivities- far less bloody or painful than your run-of-the-mill animal slaughterhouse.

    However, due to the health implications/risks associated with it (ie not just because it's "barbaric"), it probably should be outlawed, since it is not uncommon for newly-born infants to die in the aftermath of contracting herpes from oral-genital contact with the rabbi.


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    endacl
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    Feck. Just when I thought religion couldn't get any weirder, it went and got weirder...


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    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 28,120 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    LazyFecker wrote: »
    It is just another form of circumcision

    No need for sucking of blood, That's just weird.


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    shanered
    Registered Users Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭shanered


    Religion or not, thats plain nasty, of course people shouldnt be allowed do that to children, I dont think they would let a rabbi do it to them when they are 18 years plus....why a child.....gruesome stuff!


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