All that is needed to understand the nature of circumcision, is to
watch a
circumcision being performed and see the baby in question cry its
little eyes out and scream in pain and terror, perhaps qualifying
such babies as being "anti-circumcision" by nature in the eyes of
some people.
In March of 1999, the
American
Academy of Pediatrics announced that they had concluded that
there is no weight of medical evidence in favor of routine neonatal
male infant circumcision and that
babies being
circumcised actually DO feel the pain. Because of this,
the AAP
claimed, they would no longer recommend circumcision as a routine
neonatal operation, and have now stated that circumcision should be
an "ethical" choice.
Female genital mutilation is now a felony crime in the United
States. In the decade of the 90's, after over 20 years of debate,
lawmakers in California and Washington, D.C. finally passed laws
making the genital mutilation of female humans under the age of 18 a
felony crime. However, boys are apparently not considered "people" by
the courts and are therefore not entitled to equal protection, and
they apparently do not possess the same worth and dignity as do
little girls. Boys and men apparently do not qualify as "people"
according to the American Medical Association (AMA) either,
and therefore their members are apparently free to ignore the ethical
standards that the AMA uses for girls.
This inconsistent legal interpretation is also in conflict with
existing international law, in that the United Nations
non-governmental organization "National
Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers"
(NOCIRC) has acknowledged that
male infant circumcision is,
in fact, a form of child abuse. Furthermore, NOCIRC currently
presents information
that male infant circumcision is clearly in violation of the
United
Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child AND the
United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In that respect,
NOCIRC also presents an alternative birth ritual, developed by
a Jewish parent in consultation with his rabbi, entitled
Brit
Shalom, Covenant of Wholeness, and this ritual now offers
religious parents a way to maintain their religious convictions while
also avoiding violation of international law, and prospective future
national law.
In the United States during the decade of the 90's, approximately
1 million infant boys annually had circumcision unwillingly perform
upon them - more than 3,000 babies each day - one child approximately
every 30 seconds. This surgery used more than $250 million health
care dollars annually as well as untold personnel hours. Globally,
15-20% of male children were subjected to some form of non-medically
indicated genital mutilation.
While this may appear to be an odd thing to do to a baby boy, the
ancient orthodox religious ritual is more bizarre. According to "The
Universal Jewish Encyclopedia"; "The circumcision rite consists of
the following: . . .3. metzitzah, the sucking of the wound, to
staunch the blood, by means of the mouth, as practiced in
earlier times, or by means of a suction cylinder or other modern
methods in more recent times."
Believe it or not, the female version of circumcision in some
societies is even more bizarre, removing most or all of the girl's
clitoris, and is often performed with a sharp but dirty instrument
only vaguely resembling a knife; the claim by these people is that a
girl who is not mutilated in this manner is "unclean" in the eyes of
society and their future husband. In some other cases, the mutilation
is performed by a newly-betrothed husband of a young girl bride who
is sometimes brutally raped after the bloody mutilation.
The
often repeated claim that babies can not feel pain is not true.
Babies are as sensitive to pain as anyone else. Most babies scream
frantically when their foreskin or clitoris is cut off. Some
defecate, and some lapse into a coma. The reason why some babies do
not cry when they are circumcised is that they can not cry because
they are in a state of shock. Most babies are circumcised without
anesthesia, and anesthetics injected into the external sexual organs
do not always work. Being stuck with a needle in the penis or vagina
is itself painful for a baby, just as if would be for anyone else.
Often, no pain medication is given after the surgery or during the
week to ten days it takes the wound to heal; can you imagine the
incredible pain and suffering that is inflicted upon victims of
infant circumcision as part of the first few weeks of their lives in
this world?
Botched circumcision horror stories are multitudinous and easily
uncovered upon even cursory research, resulting in complications that
cause a myriad of problems for numerous babies, children, and mature
adults, every year. It is a fact that every year throughout the
world, babies are losing their entire penis to botched circumcisions,
end up having transgender sexual surgery performed upon them, and are
subsequently given female hormones and raised as girls. Often, these
children have no idea what has happened to them, grow up with an
innate confusion about their true identity, and are never told about
what originally happened to them, this because their parents are
apparently more concerned with protecting their leaders and their
rituals than they are concerned with the well-being of their
children. These children most often are quite odd-looking in
appearance (essentially like the character "Pat" played by Julia
Sweeney of Saturday Night Live television fame; what is described as
a "butch" female by some people), and are often ostracized and
continually insulted and taunted by society for their appearance,
which is obviously wholly not of their own fault.
And that is not even to mention that even correctly performed
circumcisions end up removing as much as 50-70% of the penile skin,
reduce penile sensation by approximately 40%, and generally reduce
erect penile size 2 inches in length and 1/2 inch in girth. Often,
"correctly" circumcised penises lean to the right or to the left and
can be bowed upwards or downwards (both when erect and when flaccid),
are in both states grotesquely scarred in appearance, and will
generally feel constrictively taut when erect. And circumcision even
further results in the eradication of the excitement for the male
that arises from the natural exposure of the glans and an absence of
sufficient foreplay which is necessary to the satisfactory sensual
stimulation of the woman, further resulting in a hurried rush towards
penile stimulation through vaginal intercourse and an even more
hurried rush to complete the act, often further resulting in
continued attempts to soothe the denuded penis of the circumcised
male as part of an innate psychological attempt to heal the pain that
still resides in the deep recesses of the mind of the circumcised
victim. All of which can lead to strained sexual relations and
stereotypical stigmatization of the marital relations of couples who
must deal with all of the indicated complications, further resulting
in high divorce rates, and thus, single-parent family units, which
all eventually end up causing additional complications in the lives
of the children of such parents.
Furthermore, circumcision can be implicated as one of
the historical
and current reasons why some people hate so many other people in
their lives, because of the trauma of the terrible pain and
suffering that was inflicted upon those people right after their
birth into this world. Circumcision can also be implicated as one of
the reasons for many of the sexual and mental abnormalities found in
some societies that are not generally found in other societies
throughout the world, and apparently, the embarrassment that many
circumcised men exhibit regarding nudity occurs because on some
level, they are ashamed to show their scarred, mutilated, and smaller
circumcised penises to other men who may or may not be circumcised.
And this continues to occur despite the fact that the functional
necessity of the foreskin has been proven and understood by science
for a long time. During infancy, the foreskin protects the glans from
irritation from waste material, and later on protects the glans from
friction, all designed with the natural intent of keeping the glans
soft and sensitive. During sex, the extra length of extremely
sensitive skin provided by the foreskin allows the erect penis shaft
to slide gracefully back and forth within the penile skin, providing
an additional layer of friction and protection during the sexual act
and providing an additional level of pleasure, when compared to the
taut and inflexible nature of most circumcised penises.
Do the research yourself, and begin to learn about circumcision;
Female
Genital Mutilation: An Introduction - "FGM has often been
referred to as female circumcision and compared to male circumcision.
However, such comparison is often misleading . . . A more appropriate
analogy would be between clitoridectomy and penisdectomy where the
entire penis is removed." Female
Genital Mutilation (Female Circumcision) in Africa, the Middle East
and Far East - "Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is an
destructive, invasive procedure that is usually performed on girls
before puberty. Part or all of the clitoris is surgically removed.
This leaves them with reduced or no sexual feeling."
American
Academy of Pediatrics Won't Recommend Circumcision - The
academy is now stating that there is no weight of medical evidence in
favor of male infant circumcision and that babies being circumcised
actually DO feel the pain.
Doctors
Opposing Circumcision - "D.O.C. is an organization of
physicians, and others who are opposed to routine neonatal
circumcision. D.O.C. has members in 50 States, 12 Canadian Provinces
and Territories, and in nations on six continents. These doctors
recognize that no one has the right to forcibly remove sexual body
parts from another individual."
In Memory of
the Sexually Mutilated Child - "In memory of all the children
throughout history who have died at the hands of sexual mutilators;
and in memory of those who almost died, those who wanted to die, and
those who wished they had died; and in memory of those who never knew
that a sexual mutilator killed a beautiful, wondrous, irreplaceable
part of them." The
Circumcision Fact Sheet - A summary fact sheet, documented
with references and sources, which presents a strong case against
mandatory, involuntary, routine, male infant circumcision.
Mothers Against
Circumcision - Another effort to protect the birthright of
male infants, this time from the mom's viewpoint. And you can see
shocking pictures of an actual circumcision (with the heartbreaking
picture of a crying baby!) at this page at;
http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org/plastibell.htm,
but be prepared to be repulsed!
National Organization of
Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC) -
"Dedicated to making a safer world, NOCIRC is a non-profit
educational organization committed to securing the birthright of male
and female children and babies to keep their sexual organs
intact." Brit
Shalom - Covenant of Wholeness - "This ritual was developed
by a Jewish parent in consultation with his rabbi." "RABBI: Abraham
picked up the knife to slay his son. But the Angel of the Lord called
to him from heaven: 'Abraham, Abraham.' And he answered, 'Here I am.'
The Angel said, 'Do not raise your hand against the boy nor do him
any harm.' (Genesis 22:10-12) Historians tell us that both the
priestly animal sacrifice and the blood rite of circumcision replaced
an earlier practice of human sacrifice. Instead of giving up the male
child's life itself to God, the Jews began to offer up the blood of
circumcision." "Parent 1: But the real test in this passage and in
Genesis 17, where God commands Abraham to circumcise his son in
exchange for land, was not whether Abraham would blindly obey God but
if he would use his innate moral sense and tell God: 'NO! It is WRONG
to maim innocent babies just so I could have a piece of land.' 'NO!
It is wrong to murder even on your command.' Abraham failed these
tests and we have been living with his failure ever since."
Jewish
Associates of CRC - "Our caring for the Jewish community and
Jewish male infants compels us to break the silence that supports
circumcision. We trust that the enduring Jewish values of ethics and
education will lead more Jews to the realization that circumcision
does not serve the best interests of the child or the community of
Jews."
Circumcision and
Religion (NOCIRC); Circumcision:
Cultural and Religious Issues (CIRP); Circumcising
Baby Boys 'Criminal Assault' - Canada has already banned
involuntary female infant genital mutilation. Read how their medical
society is leading the effort to consider similar laws against
involuntary male infant genital mutilation.
The
Complications of Circumcision - "The British Medical
Association has recommended that circumcision should be performed
only for medical reasons. Despite this, controversy exists over
whether too many circumcisions are being performed. Are patients
being exposed to an unnecessary operation?"
Circumcision
of American Babies Declines 11 Percent in Just Five Years -
"In the late 1960s, as many 85 percent of boys in the U.S. were
circumcised at birth. That percentage is now about 60-65 percent."
Circumcision
in America - "Why, exactly, do we circumcise? How did
circumcision evolve from a strictly Jewish and Muslim ritual to a
standard medical procedure performed on a vast majority of American
males, irrespective of religion? Why is the United States the only
Western nation in the world to practice it routinely, despite
overwhelming evidence debunking medical claims and enduring
myths?" Call It What It Is: Child
Abuse - "Circumcision is medically unjustified penis
reduction surgery."
Foreskin.org - "This
website contains close-up photographs of the normal, natural, intact
adult male foreskin."
Baby Parts for
Sale in Massachusetts - "Many researchers use the foreskin of
male babies for their projects. The practice of removing the foreskin
at birth has continued as a social norm in the United States although
professionals frequently report that the practice is neither
necessary nor beneficial."
Web Sites on
Circumcision - http://www.infocirc.org/websites.htm
Circumcision Links -
http://www.universalway.org/Foreign/circumcision.html
More assorted circumcision web sites and links; In the United States and Canada, female infant genital mutilation
has been made a felony crime, and because of this precedent, some
students of law are already asserting that male infant genital
mutilation is also a felony crime, though not engrossed in national
statute law at this time. And because female infant genital
mutilation has been made a felony crime, some students of law are
also claiming that despite the failure to consider baby boys in
recent legislation outlawing female genital mutilation, the precedent
has been set, the crime has been acknowledged, the punishment has
been established, and involuntary genital mutilation of male humans
under the age of 18 should also be classified as a felony by nature
which, in the future, should become prosecutable, and even if it is
not, will now be understood by law-abiding people for the type of act
that it is.
Thus, some students of law are already claiming that, in the eyes
of a civilized society; anyone who performs an infant circumcision is
a felon; parents authorizing circumcision on any infant or child
under their guardianship are at the very least an accessory to a
felony if not felons themselves; people who proactively support
infant circumcision are moral conspirators in the commission of a
felony; and people who know about the crime of infant circumcision
being committed and who do not act to prevent such crimes, are
contributing to the continued irreparable harm of unwilling children.
While circumcision rates in the United States in the decade of the
90's were reduced to a still-high 60%, the worldwide rate outside of
the U.S. is only 15-20%, so it can be asserted with certainty that
the majority of the people and nations of the world already
understand the implications of infant circumcision. Thus,
acknowledging the trends which have been identified, it will probably
come to be well-known in the future that circumcision is a form of
child abuse, and that the perpetrators of this form of child abuse
are really felony criminals who have caused irreconcilable damage to
their own children.
The following nightmare will be found to possess an archetypal
structure which can be found to be consistent among the different
nightmares of the majority of children who have been circumcised
shortly after their birth. That archetypal nightmare may go something
much like this;
You are naked to the world and backed into a corner with no hope
of retreat or escape. You can barely move, but you still vainly try
to fight back against your assailant by flinging your legs out to try
to deflect shooting rays of light which are attacking you at the
center of your being and which are causing you immense pain and
suffering. Horror and terror overcome you as you experience the
ultimate frustration possible since whatever you try to do to stop
the attack is totally futile, and the attack never ends without
completing its mission of completely submitting you to continued pain
and suffering, and inflicting upon you the frustration of such a
horror and terror that when you awoke from sleep and remembered the
nightmare you could never understand why anyone in the world would
possibly be tortured by such an experience in the first place.
This is an archetype of a nightmare that many babies have
experienced in their childhood, and even in their later lives, and
this nightmare will finally end permanently when a person realizes
that it is a recounting of exactly how a baby boy would interpret the
experience known as infant circumcision. There can be no doubt that
this explanation is the correct explanation for this archetypal
nightmare, and the question must be asked; how many children have
experienced a similar nightmare in their lives, without ever being
able to understand or express the frustration of the horror and
terror and pain and suffering they experienced, and how many children
have been so haunted in their sleep that such a nightmare made such a
distinct impression on them that it affected them in their waking
life?
The psychological implications surrounding people who obtain
apparent benefit from committing acts of genital mutilation upon
innocent babies, is also an astonishing subject to contemplate,
however, there are apparently few people in the world who are
objective enough to be able to comprehend the full extent of the
matter. The practice of routine neonatal male circumcision was very,
very rarely seen in the United States of America until it was first
introduced by the American Medical Association at the end of
the 19th century, and later grew greatly in popularity after WWII
ended. The published reasons by the AMA for the imposition of
male infant circumcision as a routine neonatal operation in the
United States will be found to be the prevention of masturbation.
Medical journals from the late 19th century assert this as a fact,
and since masturbation was at the time believed to be the cause of
many other illnesses, including insanity, circumcision was promoted
by the AMA as a preventative for masturbation and those other
illnesses. It is interesting to note, however, that the current
medical rationale for routine neonatal male circumcision was
developed AFTER it was made routine by the AMA.
Further research into the matter uncovers the following;
On page 214 of "The Universal Jewish
Encyclopedia" (Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Inc., 1939), the
following is found;
"The circumcision rite consists of the following: 1. milah,
cutting off the end of the upper prepuce; 2. periah, baring the glans
by tearing or cutting the tender lower prepuce and pushing it behind
the glans; 3. metzitzah, the sucking of the wound, to staunch the
blood, by means of the mouth, as practiced in earlier times, or by
means of a suction cylinder or other modern methods in more recent
times."
On page/column 572 in Volume V of "Encyclopedia Judaica" (Keter
Publishing House, 1971), the following is found;
"The next stage is the performance of mezizah ('suction').
This has led to much controversy in recent years. Throughout the ages
this was done by suction by the mouth in order, according to
Maimonides, to remove the blood from the distant parts of the wound
(Maim. Yad, Milah, 2:2). It was the recognized method of disinfection
at the time. A mohel who refrained from performing it was
considered to be endangering the life of the child, and had to be
debarred from practice. Toward the middle of the 19th and the
beginning of the 20th century cases of syphilis, tuberculosis, and
diphtheria occurring in infants were ascribed to infection from
mohalim using this method of suction. This has been contested
by a few Jewish doctors, and some communities still follow the
original practice. The Paris Consistoire abolished mezizah in
1843."
On page 167 of "Encyclopedia of Judaism" (Jerusalem Publishing
House, Ltd., 1989), the following is found;
"The circumcision itself takes only a few seconds, and is
performed by a circumciser (mohel). Formerly the blood was
drawn orally by the mohel but now an instrument is used."
An interesting addition is found on page/column 570-571 in Volume
V of the aforementioned "Encyclopedia Judaica";
"In 1843 the clerical leaders of the reform movement in Frankfort
sought to abolish circumcision among their adherents; the controversy
concerning its necessity in Judaism lasted for 20 years and
eventually spread to America. They based their objections to
circumcision on five reasons: (1) It was commanded to Abraham and not
to Moses. It is not distinctive of Israel since it is also practiced
by descendants of Ishmael; (2) It is mentioned only once in the
Mosaic law; it is not repeated in Deuteronomy; (3) Moses did not
circumcise his own son; (4) The generation of the desert was not
circumcised; (5) There is no initiation of daughters into Judaism.
All these were answered by Orthodox rabbinical authorities. To
counter this agitation, Leopold Zunz wrote his essay on circumcision
(Gutachten ueber die Beschneidung, Frankfort, 1844). Today,
most Reform Jews have their children circumcised."
It is noted here that in the "New Standard Encyclopedia of
Judaism" (Facts on File, Inc., 1992), no mention at all is made of
the mezizah, and it will be observed that the more modern the
reference edition used, the less that is disclosed about the practice
of the mezizah. However, all of the above information is easily found
in the reference section of most libraries, and furthermore, an
Internet search on "mezizah" and/or "metzitzah" will easily uncover
the cherished association and continued use of this practice by some
Orthodox Jewish communities.
The conclusion in the matter is that the "mezizah" is the stage of
circumcision where the mohel places his mouth on the baby's penis and
sucks the blood and skin from the wound. And while many of the sects
of Judaism claim to no longer use the mezizah, it is clear that this
stage was performed by all sects for at least a millennia, and in
fact, is still performed in some Orthodox sects
(by some people who
condemn homosexuality as a sin punishable by death), all of which
identifies the original nature of the ritual upon which the modern
operation is based. And at the same time, it is well-known that many
a rabbi reports experiencing an exciting chill from participation in
the ritual and that many rabbis consider it an honor to perform
infant circumcision, and because of this, there are many rabbis who
have performed thousands of these operations.
Here is some more information in the matter;
Mohel
sucking blood from baby's penis -
http://www.SexuallyMutilatedChild.org/mohel.htm
From all the evidence available, infant circumcision must thus be
considered an act of sexual abuse performed upon the most innocent
and beautiful creatures in the world; it is an act that, by Universal
justice, must lead to the promulgation of other forms of child
molestation in any society that supports or condones such acts.
Furthermore, people who use arguments based in freedom of religion,
personal liberty, or parental control, as a defense for the crime of
infant circumcision, are corrupting the definition and ideals of
freedom and parenthood, and are exposing an unsupportable and
illogical prejudice, both within the law, and within their own logic.
Regardless of all of the above, there are still some people who
claim that in a civilization which declares itself in support of
truth, liberty, and justice, people who forcibly impose an operation
that painfully removes a majority of the most sensitive part of a
newborn baby's external sexual organs, are "right." Some of these
same people claim that all people have the right to do whatever they
choose to do with their own person and property, as long as they do
not harm the person or property of any other person; while at the
same time some of those same people declare that people who alter the
sexual organs of newborn babies are "right" in the eyes of that same
society.
Every human being deserves to be treated in a fair and equitable
manner, afforded all the possibilities available to them in life, and
protected from harmful acts that deny them those possibilities. When
harmful acts are performed, be it arbitrarily or intentionally, a
remedy must be pursued. Furthermore, harmful acts need be researched
and identified for their true nature.
Tolerance of all human beings includes all people to the degree
that they do not perform harmful acts upon other people. Babies are
the most innocent and beautiful of all creatures in the world, and
harmful acts performed upon babies are some of the most terrible that
can be contemplated. Thus, it is important that babies be protected
in the law from cultural and traditional acts which may have become
rote, but which are really harmful acts.
The practice of involuntary infant circumcision stains the souls
of the babies and children of many a nation in the world, and makes
just resolution of the problems of those nations appear to be an
impossibility. The only solution to the entire problem is the
acknowledgement of the pattern of existing explicit international
law, and the outlawing of male AND female infant genital mutilation
(circumcision) on a national level, first in specific and detailed
statute law identifying such acts of mutilation as a felony crime,
and then by constitutional amendment designed to protect children
from involuntary mutilation and to acknowledge such acts as crimes
against humanity.
There can be NO excuse for the mutilation of the genitals of male
or female children. Thus, if your child is otherwise healthy and
there are no problems with his/her external sexual organs, DO NOT
DO CIRCUMCISION! There are some people who have had the operation
done as an adult and say that they wished that it was done as a
child. Those people had a choice. They made their own decision. Once
circumcised, your child can never decide to not be circumcised.
Parents should not allow an operation, no matter how simple the
procedure, to be done on any child (male or female) without a firm
and solid medical reason. There is NO medical reason for the majority
of the circumcisions performed in the United States. Please DO NOT
CIRCUMCISE YOUR CHILDREN if there is no medical reason, and there
is NO medical reason for routine infant circumcision.
Parents who have allowed this operation to be performed in the
past, for whatever reasons, and who are beginning to think that they
made a mistake, or whose children are becoming aware of the truth
about circumcision, should do their own research into the subject
matter and seek out the strength to admit to their mistake,
apologize to their children, explain to their children why
they allowed the operation to be performed, and beg forgiveness of
their children, in order to regain the trust of their children and so
as prevent any possible estrangement that might occur in the future
when children learn the whole truth about the matter of infant
circumcision. And it goes a long way also if those same parents would
share what they have learned with other prospective and current
parents, so that other people may begin to better understand the
truth about routine infant circumcision.
All people, when confronted with the information presented herein
regarding infant circumcision, should do their own research into the
subject matter and attempt to rectify that knowledge with their
personal religious beliefs, if necessary. For people who accept
infant circumcision as a valid religious ritual, they might find it
useful to consider that, as suggested in the above Jewish religious
ritual
Brit
Shalom, it might just be true that God created
circumcision as some sort of special test of the intelligence and
compassion of its creation that, for those of its children who failed
the test, they would find themselves living with that failure from
that point onward into the future, until they finally decided by
themselves, to pass that special test.
The time has come for organized religious institutions to admit
the truth and find some way to protect their viewpoint by rejecting
the practice of involuntary infant circumcision, before even more
victims of this crime become advocates for the abolition of the
religious, social, and political systems that perform such acts upon
their own children and that try to force such acts upon the children
of other people. The time has also come for the civilized governments
of the world to outlaw male infant circumcision and define it as a
felony in the same manner that has been done for female circumcision,
and this does not mean that it is any particular religion that is
being pinpointed by that act, but that, in fact, a new day has dawned
for those religions where they will be able to live in a new freedom.
And, in fact, many people are already challenging the practice of
ritual circumcision within their religious communities, promoting
debate and inspiring change that has already resulted in the
establishment of symbolic rituals that do not include the mutilation
of the genitals of babies as part of any ritual of their religion.
Any society that fails to challenge and outlaw this practice must
by their failure be admitting to their control by the leaders of
their religions, and thus, a convincing argument may be made that the
society itself is a theocracy by nature. Now is the time to
acknowledge the truth in the matter, protect the children from the
harm imposed upon them by their own parents, help the circumcised
peoples and religions of the world with their self-imposed
punishment, and direct them towards an understanding of behavior that
does not compel these harmful acts upon their own people, especially
their babies. Furthermore, the time has also come for all people in
the world to accept all other people as their brothers and sisters in
the human species and as equal partners in humanity, and to treat all
other people in the world the same way that they would treat any
other person who followed the same religion as themselves.
The Female Genital Mutilation
Education and Networking Project Page,
Female Genital
Mutilation around the World: Population Groups,
FGM and
Women's Reproduction Bibliography
Sue
Circumcisers,
$10,000
Reward!,
Foreskins
for Sale,
"A Scream We
Will Never Forget",
The
Serial Circumciser,
A Short
History of Circumcision in the U.S. in Physicians' Own Words,
The
Circumcised Male Has Less Penis",
Recreational/Erotic/Fetish
Circumcision,
Foreskin/Circumcision/Restoration
Websites,
Howard
Stern on Circumcision,
Mohel
sucking blood from baby's penis,
Circumcision
Deaths/Disasters Headlines,
"When I
realized that Judaism cut me off from part of myself, I cut myself
off from Judaism"
Answers to Your
Questions About Infant Circumcision -
http://www.nocirc.org/answers1.html
The Jewish
Roots of Anti-Circumcision Arguments,
Ending
Circumcision in the Jewish Community?,
Jehovah,
His Cousin Allah, and Sexual Mutilations,
Challenging
Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective
The Holy
Bible, Circumcision, False Prophets, and Christian Parents,
Christian
Parents and the Circumcision Issue,
To Mutilate
in the Name of Jehovah or Allah,
Bris
Shalom Ceremony,
The Church of
Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints and Circumcision
Circumcision
in America, Part 2 -
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1998/10/27feature.html
Neonatal Pain
and its Effects,
Newborns
Feel Pain,
Child Circumcision: Legal
Issues, Male
Circumcision and the Rights of the Child,
United
Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child,
Circumcision in the News,
Circumcision: Other WWW
Resources,
Botched
Circumcision Horror Stories,
Amnesty
International: Nurses and Human Rights,
AAP Circumcision
Policy Statement (RE9850),
Estimated U.S.
Incidence of Neonatal Circumcision Complications,
CIRCUMCISION: The
Compleat Mother,
National Organization to
Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males (NOHARMM),
Circumcision Information and Resource
Pages,
Mother Friendly
Childbirth Initiative,
Fathering:
Genital Mutilation American Style,
Historical Medical Quotes on
Circumcision,
Mothering: The
Case Against Circumcision,
Fathering: The
Medical Basis for Routine Circumcision,
Nurses
Refuse to Participate in Circumcision,
NOCIRC Amicus Curaie
Brief in Matthew Price Case,
Accord Not To
Circumcise Son Still Leaves Heated Legal Debate,
Circumcision
Information Ring
Recent statistics show that approximately 65,000 "intersexed" babies are born every year throughout the world ("intersexed" babies are babies born with genitals that do not meet the "normal" criteria of "normal" human beings, some of those "intersexed" babies actually being some form of "hermaphrodite" by nature). Some of these babies exhibit some characteristics of male genitals while possessing XX chromosomes (female), some of these babies exhibit some characteristics of female genitals while possessing XY chromosomes (male), and some of these babies exhibit the characteristics of both male and female genitals while possessing a mosaic pattern of both XX and XY chromosomes (true hermaphrodites).
The huge majority of these children have performed upon them operations to mutilate and alter their genitals in order to make them conform to the genitals of "normal" society, while at the same time, the huge majority of the victims of these operations end up confused and disturbed about their entire condition, and have asserted their wish that they would have preferred to remain intact with the genitals that they were given by "God" at birth. Many such victims also report experiencing no true sensation in their genitals whereas many who were operated on at a time later than birth report that before their operations, they were able to experience a degree of sensation in their genitals that provided them with satisfactory sensual stimulation.
Such a situation, when combined with an understanding of circumcision, and autism (see More Truths About Circumcision: Neurological Disorders and Circumcision), makes it a necessity and a requirement that all parents avoid all types of unnecessary contact with doctors who impose such social standards and who perform such operations. The desired result of this entire matter, can only be the desire of a small amount of doctors to prevent such "abnormal" people from experiencing any true sensual stimulation and prevent them from producing children in the future who might not meet the normal standards set for society by these doctors.
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