Should I Circumcise?

For those seeking more information on male infant circumcision, please visit the following links:

http://www.circinfo.net/health-benefits-and-reviews.html

http://www.medicirc.org/meditopics/medicirc_topics.html

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Watch this video called “The circumcision decision”:
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-5395565256830319025&ei=si6cSZCZMYnojgKZmcCUDg&q=nocirc&hl=en

Care for an intact boy is easier. Just a few things you should know:
The foreskin is attached to the glans at birth (they have to break this seal to perform the circumcision – this is excruciatingly painful – not that the pain is the worst part of circumcision )
You should never pull back the foreskin or try to clean under it. It requires no care.
The foreskin should be left to become retractable on it’s own , it should not be forced. The foreskin becomes retractable by itself. this occurs any time up until the end of puberty, though the average age is 5-10 years. Until then, nothing to do. A lot of doctors are not familiar with this – don’t let them retract it.
Once it becomes retractable, there is little care – just wash it like any other body part. It is not dirty – if it was then women would be a lot dirtier. Most men worldwide (75-80%) are intact and have no problems.

“Should I Circumcise?”

The bigger question is, should your doctor?

Bottom Line:
Circumcising a healthy newborn is needless cosmetic procedure. It is going to alter his organs and his sexual experience for the rest of his life.

There are also risks that doctors will not tell you about, such as horrible job (because there is no need, they’re ALL horrible), cutting off more than just the skin (google Mogen and lawsuit – a judge recently awarded a family 11 million because a mohel cut off the head of the penis using the Mogen clamp), and even death (at least 100 babies a year die due to circumcision, and these numbers are concervative because doctors often attribute deaths to something else).

Without any medical condition to address, doctors should not even be performing circumcisions in healthy, non-consenting children, let alone pretend like he can give the choice.

So ask yourself the bigger question.

What’s wrong with my baby? Is the foreskin a birth-defect? Is it a genetic anomaly like a 6th finger? Without an actual problem, how is it the doctor or nurse has the nerve to approach me with such a stupid question?

The answer lies in this; every circumcision a doctor performs is $300 in his pocket. Some charge the whole grand. Most do at least a dosen children a day. Across the nation, 3,000 boys a day needlessly have their genitals mutilated. All for what? “Benefits” that can already easily be achieved without an operation?

More children die from complications of circumcision than from SIDS ! It is torturous, unnecessary pain. I am a Jew and my 2 sons are not circed, best parental decision! There is NO downside, circ does not prevent cancer, HIV, or any other disease. The doctors and hospital make money off your children’s foreskins! They don’t educate the public because they will lose money and tissue for skin grafts! Check out Jewsagainsticrcumcision, NOCIRC, get real information, not propaganda!

There is no necessity for “circumcision”, a euphemism for genital mutilation. Every so called problem can be fixed or prevented by understanding the anatomy instead of lazily administering an irreversible and dangerous procedure. If it were being introduced as something new, people would be mortified, as they are in Europe. Religion is no excuse either as many Scandinavian and Russian Jews avoid the ritual. Brit Shalom is much kinder.

Eighty five percent of males internationally are intact and living proof that “circumcision” is a lie. Survivors of “circumcision” should never have been placed involuntarily into an irreversible minority category of the sexually subjugated. Babies are not objects, they are people with rights.

I am so sick of people saying that female and male circumcision are nothing alike. Female genital mutilation is not for the sole purpose of taking away a woman’s sexual pleasure. Maybe in some places, but people that do female circumcisions believe it’s cleaner healthier and prettier. Or they do it for religious reasons. They do it in hospitals, in sterile environments. And even to a lesser degree than male circumcision! It’s just so obvious how ignorant people are when it comes to any genital mutilation. Male circumcision was invented to take away male’s sexual pleasure! They most certainly are similar.

Actually, in response to the woman in the video who said Female Genital Mutilation was designed to rob sexual pleasure in women…we started it in our country in the 1850’s to stop boys AND girls from masturbating. Circumcision predates both Judaism and Islam, when the Egyptians circumcised their jewish slaves to mark them and deprive them of sexual pleasure and identity. The Jewish faith never adopted circumcision for another 550 years after Jesus Christ died. Taking that into account, along with the 4 types of both male and female circumcision that applies to both sexes, we could say that FGM and MGM are the same. All types of male circumcision are worse than female circumcision: type 1 removes the foreskin of both (in women it’s the clitoral hood) this removes 4,000 nerve endings in a woman and 20,0000 in a man. Type 2 removes the glans clitoris or glans penis. Type 3, infibulation, which many feminists try to claim is the most common type (type 1 is), is actually worse when it happens to men in Somalia and Yemen, as their penises are flayed from the navel to the base of the penis, and their erectile tissue is forever damaged. The woman is only sewn up during an infibulation, and is actually proven to be more hygenic, as females do not have a scrotum between their anus and urethra as men do, which makes them more succeptable to UTI’s. Type 4 is a genital nick, which can be done to both as well. Either way, you’re depriving a child of their God given right to an intact body. Judaism also teaches people not to harm children, and to leave the world as you came in. Instead of making this a “parents choice” which cannot be done for females due to the unconstitutional FGM bill, we need to make this a choice the boy makes when he’s older. After all, it’s his body, and he has to live with the end result.