On Mon, 13 May 1996, Mr David A Houghton wrote:

(yes I am male obviously. Imagine if someone hacked(and I mean hacked) off 
your breast's females. That is almost as bad as castration. You can no more 
understand us having our testicles cut off than we can rape.)

*mind boggling about how clearly this discussion is cut along gender
lines....*
Well, on that note, did you know that before better treatment (and even
some today, if it's that bad) a woman with breast cancer had to have the
affected breast removed? I'm not sure of the implications of prostrate
cancer....but I'm sure it muct be along the same lines and just as
painful.

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