less than a day old . . . tiny head still slightly misshapen, eyelids puffy. The nurse has taken him from his mother and is carrying him to a side room in the pediatric ward. The nurse pops on a white heat lamp with her elbow, removes the child from a blue blanket, and lays him in a molded plastic form bolted to the counter. This bathtub-like shell is called a Circumstraint. There are indentations for the baby鈥檚 arms and legs. The nurse binds Velcro straps around his limbs, bends the light over him and steps back. The baby is naked and spread-eagled, and he begins to cry.
The doctor snaps the scalpel blade onto the handle, then places it beside the baby. Lifting the hemostat, which resembles a sharp-tipped pair of pliers, he begins. Holding the penis in one hand, he moves the point of the hemostat through the hole at the end of the foreskin. The foreskin is tightly attached to the glans, like a fingernail to a finger. Using no anesthesia, the doc...
http://www.noharmm.org/separated. The Foreskin that is amputated is responsible for roughly 80% of your overall sexual pleasure, including added pleasure for the woman as well. the penis head was meant to be moist and super super sensitive, but now it dries up (hello sex lubricant companies!) and losses sensitivity, it protects the penis from infection, helps with sexual pleasure, and is naturally what God gave us.
So why do we do it? in the 1800's mr. Kelloggs thought it was a good idea to 'cure' masterbation and put it into effect, after that idea was realized as stupid, they said it cures disease, then that was proved wrong, then they said it cures penile cancer (hello, do we amputate breasts B4 they get breast cancer, no, because the point is to keep the body intact) and they keep changing what they say it helps because it helps nothing and only hurts, the babies heart rate during the surgery is at the same rate as someone going through torture http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org/
Western countries have no tradition of circumcision. In antiquity, the expansion of the Greek and Roman Empires brought Westerners into contact with the peoples of the Middle East, some of whom marked their children with circumcision and other sexual mutilations. To protect these children, the Greeks and Romans passed laws forbidding circumcision.[1] Over the centuries, the Catholic Church has passed many similar laws.[2,3] The traditional Western response to circumcision has been revulsion and indignation.
Circumcision started in America during the masturbation hysteria of the Victorian Era, when a few American doctors circumcised boys to punish them for masturbating. Victorian doctors knew very well that circumcision denudes, desensitizes, and disables the penis. Nevertheless, they were soon claiming that circumcision cured epilepsy, convulsions, paralysis, elephantiasis, tuberculosis, eczema, bed-wetting, hip-joint disease, fecal incontinence, rectal prolapse, wet dreams, hernia, headaches, nervousness, hysteria, poor eyesight, idiocy, mental retardation, and insanity
What Are the Foreskin's Functions?
The foreskin has numerous protective, sensory, and sexual functions.
* Protection: Just as the eyelids protect the eyes, the foreskin protects the glans and keeps its surface soft, moist, and sensitive. It also maintains optimal warmth, pH balance, and cleanliness. The glans itself contains no sebaceous glands--glands that produce the sebum, or oil, that moisturizes our skin.[11] The foreskin produces the sebum that maintains proper health of the surface of the glans.
* Immunological Defense: The mucous membranes that line all body orifices are the body's first line of immunological defense. Glands in the foreskin produce antibacterial and antiviral proteins such as lysozyme.[12] Lysozyme is also found in tears and mother's milk. Specialized epithelial Langerhans cells, an immune system component, abound in the foreskin's outer surface. Plasma cells in the foreskin's mucosal lining secrete immunoglobulins, antibodies that defend against infections.
* Erogenous Sensitivity: The foreskin is as sensitive as the fingertips or the lips of the mouth. It contains a richer variety and greater concentration of specialized nerve receptors than any other part of the penis.[15] These specialized nerve endings can discern motion, subtle changes in temperature, and fine gradations of texture.[16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23]
* Coverage during Erection: As it becomes erect, the penile shaft becomes thicker and longer. The double-layered foreskin provides the skin necessary to accommodate the expanded organ and to allow the penile skin to glide freely, smoothly, and pleasurably over the shaft and glans.
* Self-Stimulating Sexual Functions: The foreskin's double-layered sheath enables the penile shaft skin to glide back and forth over the penile shaft. The foreskin can normally be slipped all the way, or almost all the way, back to the base of the penis, and also slipped forward beyond the glans. This wide range of motion is the mechanism by which the penis and the orgasmic triggers in the foreskin, frenulum, and glans are stimulated.
* Sexual Functions in Intercourse: One of the foreskin's functions is to facilitate smooth, gentle movement between the mucosal surfaces of the two partners during intercourse. The foreskin enables the penis to slip in and out of the vagina nonabrasively inside its own slick sheath of self-lubricating, movable skin. The female is thus stimulated by moving pressure rather than by friction only, as when the male's foreskin is missing.
The foreskin fosters intimacy between the two partners by enveloping the glans and maintaining it as an internal organ. The sexual experience is enhanced when the foreskin slips back to allow the male's internal organ, the glans, to meet the female's internal organ, the cervix--a moment of supreme intimacy and beauty.
The foreskin may have functions not yet recognized or understood. Scientists in Europe recently detected estrogen receptors in its basal epidermal cells.[24] Researchers at the University of Manchester found that the human foreskin has apocrine glands.[25] These specialized glands produce pheromones, nature's chemical messengers. Further studies are needed to fully understand these features of the foreskin and the role they play.
BettyBoop the chance of a man getting penis cancer, is one in a billion. European here and have never heard of any man with penis cancer. And to think, you pay to have it done. That's the circumcision for baby? what about in adult? Did you know just reading your question was torture?
You make light sound frightening. i agree Yes sounds horrible hey.
I was told by a nurse that baby boys of just a few days old, actually don't have much feeling 'there', but then we aren't little baby boys, so who's to say. Poor little kids. We'd spew if it became practise to do similar to girl babies. was this really necessary? and did you know that a man with an uncircumcized penis is more likely to get penile cancer? Thank you for sharing that. I have three sons and i refused to have that done to them. I'm a big believer in if it ain't broke......My sons are all healthy and fine with the way they are. If they were to ever change their mind about it, it would be their decision to want something done about it, not mine. That's exactly what I was thinking about when I told the nurses NO on the circumcision question. If it becomes necessary when a child becomes an adult, they use anesthesia and painkillers. the baby will not remember a thing when they grew up, and the doctor knows what they are doing... they know better than us..
Circumcision advocates assert that circumcision is a significant public health measure, preventing infections, and slowing down the spread of AIDS... if the foreskin got infected and the penis must be amputated. the baby becomes an eunuch. is that torture?
Think about it! It's a common thing in the US. I did not want this done to my son. My husband over ruled me. Then my daughter had her son 3 weeks ago. She sided with her boyfriend to get it done. She said she did it so when he was in Gym class he wouldn't look different. Why would the other boys be looking anyways? I don't agree with it, especially since we're not Jewish by faith. ok there are many reasons for this.. it is not a comfortable thing to do but it is better early in life they do not remember this after a few moments. My son did not even cry but for 1 minute. people do it for spitual beliefs and also for cleanliness reasons. Ten years ago my step-son was born in florida at that time the state did not allow mothers to have circumcisions when they were on state aide stating it was cosmetic.. Now there has been several infections that he has had to deal with, his doctor has shown him the proper way to clean it and everything, however he still gets them. If were abble to get a circumsion this would never have happened.. yes I have heard of the rare horror story of the doctor missing screwing things up.. those are few and far between and the doctor was obviously not fully qualified for the procedure.. the only way to get past that is to make sure the doctor you chose has had lots of experience. and make sure he/she is the one that is accually going to do the procedure.. people will always have their opinions that is why it is 100% elective on wether or not you have this done to little one. Just remember the older you are to have it done the worse it will be. you make me feel horrible for circumcising my son. i didnt want to do it ,but i thought it was what i was supposed to do. now that im older and wiser i wouldnt have in my wildest dreams ever had the procedure done on my child because thats how he came into the world. who am i to change that for him. but to slightly defend my other reason for doing it was because i was told by the doctor that it was a painless procedure and that the child was somehow medically numbed so i wouldnt feel so bad because i was against it instinctively from the beginning. i feel i was pressured since its so socially acceptable where i came from. i dont advise any parents to do this to their child, let them make the decision later on in life. I thought about getting my son circumsized, but my firend, father and brother has a convincing arguement... "You Circumsize Him, We Kill You"... wow, that was interesting. I am against circumsition. It is such an old thing to do. It shows how religion has brainwashed people (I say this as many religions believe in circumsition). I have heard that if you don't wash it properly you can get infections and so you should circumsize. Well i also heard that if you don't wash your hands for months, that you get sick too, cause germs are mostly picked up on hands, then on food, then in us... It is just a silly concept. People get soo brainwashed. I would not circumsize my baby because some people are stuck in the thought pattern that it is 'the right and proper thing to do'. To me the right and proper thing to do is to protect my baby from foolish brainwashed people that would harm him for no good reason other then their beleifs.. Brilliant!
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So many parents are swayed by stories of infection. They don't realize that most docs in this country have no idea how to deal with an whole, unmutilated, intact penis. They don't tell parents to leave it alone and wipe it like a finger. Early retraction causes a lot of infections. Infections should be cured by medications, not surgery! Amputation should always be a last resort. Girls genitals get a lot more infections and we never think to chop parts of them off "just in case."
As for penile cancer, a man is FAR MORE LIKELY to get BREAST CANCER, but we don't amputate their breast buds!
Circumcision is a dreadful cure desperately in search of a disease! Oh please. I am a surgical tech in the OR and have seen an obscene amount of these done the that is not the way the procedure is done at all. The doctor does not even use a scaple, there is not even one in a circ tray, and I very rarely see a baby cry when it is being done. The shots they get cause them to react more than getting a circ. You people need to stop reading such garbage and get facts from somebody who has actually either done the procedure or assisted like I have. I circumcised my older son at 3 days old and I will circumcise my next son when he is born. It will be done by a Rabbi. Jewish boys must be circumcied by Jewish law. I have seen it done and it didn't hurt him a bit.
Get over it. If you think that hurts, try giving birth!!!! Then talk to me about pain.
Godforbid anything should be painful for the male penis! Men are such wimps!!! Can't handle pain at all!!!! ...And how many men do you know who are in therapy because they're mentally scarred from being circumcised as an infant? Hmm... none? Yeah that's what I thought.
My son is circumcised because it was medically NECESSARY and it didn't bother him one bit, he only needed one dose of pain reliever and that was only necessary because it was hospital policy, he didn't even cry.
No issue is black and white, no matter how hard you try to make it so. yes they do use pain medicine, it is a knuming medicine that is applied to the penis, It is called emla or elemax. I have seen many problems with children when they are not circumsised and than they wind up having it done later in life which is more traumatic for them and painful with plenty of complications. do your research a little better buddy. every been circumcised as an adult, meaning you KNOW what the difference in feeling, sensation, cleanliness. are you a woman that has had both?
then how the hell would you know any of this? and unless you have some strange pedo. sick stuff goin on why the hell are you so obsessed about little boys penises?
circumcision IS painless, unless you are an uneducated hillbilly. anesthetic is widely avaliable. you'd rather give your son, altho 'rare' but not that rare, would you want to make your son have the incredibly higher risk of penile cancer? it DOES NOT reduce anything in sex life. sensitivity is not reduced. feeling sexwise is enhanced. for both myself and my g/f. and think about it head of it covered basically 24/7 compared to exposed 24/7. obviously cleanliness is going to be alot easier/better. most men that were circumcised as an infant don't really care or are glad they were.
torture? when ALOT of adult men request this to be done?
people that say it is mutilation, how can something that the majority of people prefer or don't care either way be a mutilation?
does prevent infections, prevents stds, does not reduce any sensitivity, prevents cervical cancer.
saying circumcision is torture, leaving a child intact is more so torture. I mean all the attention drawn to a childs 'bits' when an infection happens. with making sure its cleaned ect ect that is only something someone with pedo. tendencies would consider better.
seriously you need to get a job or hobby or something dude. I think you should remove the statement "and he begins to cry". My son circumsized and never cried at all during the procedure. Funny thing too, he is such a happy lil 6 month old to have been "tortured" at such a young age.
get over it Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation on the Internet about circumcision. Often this is from websites with a passionate anti-circumcision agenda, but sadly little connection to scientific reality.
Some examples of these myths include:
That the glans ("head") of the penis loses sensitivity.
In fact, all three studies that have investigated this issue have found that the glans of circumcised men is just as sensitive as those of uncircumcised men. (see 1, 2, and 3)
That more babies die of complications of circumcision than men die of penile cancer. In fact, deaths due to circumcision are extremely rare - about 1 in 500,000 procedures (see 4). In contrast, about 600-900 circumcisions prevent 1 case of penile cancer (see 4). Therefore, if one performs 500,000 circumcisions, one death may be expected, but 555 cases of penile cancer are prevented. If only 1 in 10 of those cancers are fatal (a conservative estimate), 55 deaths are prevented.
That the foreskin is responsible for 80% of sensation. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever for this (see 4). A recent study found that 38% of men circumcised as adults reported increased sensation, 44% no change, and only 18% reported decreased sensation. (see 5)
That the foreskin protects against infection. In fact, the opposite is true. See 6. Circumcision is NOT torture.
You are not asking anything here. The only goal of this post is to mislead and manipulate the public with lies and wrong information. What you are doing is torture.
Now some true and unbiased info on circumcision, keep reading...
CIRCUMCISION IS VERY BENEFICIAL, its cleaner and several research bodies have concluded that circumcised men have less risk of contracting STD's such as AIDS-HIV or herpes.
Uncircumcised penises are difficult to keep clean, and more prone to infections and penile cancer, studies have shown.
A circumcised penis is naturally clean and virtually free from urinary infection. You will not have to worry again with careful washing of your penis.
Is it NOT true that the AAP (American Academy of Paediatrics) does not recommend circumcision. They simply say they leave the decision to parents. But recently, and specially after the New Zealand study, the AAP has been discussing if it may be necessary to change their policy and recommend circumcision to all newborns as they used to do, so in the future we may see that the AAP advocates again circumcision.
Have a look at: http://www.baby-health.net/articles/381....
About STD's:
As I said, several studies carried out by prestigious research bodies have concluded that uncircumcised penises are more prone to infections and contraction of STD's, including AIDS-HIV. Circumcised men have been proved to be up to seven times less likely to be infected than those who are uncircumcised. Have a look at this site: http://icuxbridge.icnetwork.co.uk/news/t...
As for women, studies also show that circumcision also protects female partners from AIDS-HIV and other STD's. Browse this article: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_rel...
About sensitivity of a circumcised penis:
No medical or physiological study has proved that circumcision reduces sensitivity, opposed to common belief. It is completely FALSE that circumcision reduces penis sensitivity. The American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) confirms this on their web site; have a look at: http://www.aap.org/pubed/zzzjzmemh4c.htm
Circumcision is an easy and nowadays *painless* procedure, which has many benefits, and virtually no risks.
Circumcision is NOT an amputation. Circumcision is NOT comparable at all to female circumcision, which is something completely different.
Circumcision rates are INCREASING nowadays, both in the United States and overseas. Many African and South American countries with little circumcision tradition are starting to promote the procedure to help to reduce the AIDS-HIV infection rates.
Finally, this site has a lot of useful and *unbiased* information. Make sure you have a good look: http://www.circinfo.net |
