CIRCUMCISION
QUOTES.
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“What's done to
children, they will do to society.”
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“Circumcision
is a solution looking for a problem. The medical profession bears
responsibility for the introduction of prophylactic circumcision without
scientific basis in the past and for its continued use and rationalization without
scientific basis in the present.”
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“Circumcision is startling,
all right, particularly when performed by a garlicked old man upon the glory of
a newborn body, but then maybe that’s what the Jews had in mind and what makes
the act seem quintessentially Jewish and the mark of their reality.
Circumcision makes it clear
as can be that you are here and not there, that you are out and not in — also
that you’re mine and not theirs.
Quite convincingly, circumcision gives the lie to the womb-dream of life in the
beautiful state of innocent prehistory, the appealing idyll of living ‘naturally’,
unencumbered by man-made ritual.
To be born is to lose all
that.
The heavy hand of human values falls upon you right at the start, marking your
genitals as its own.”
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“Hip
trouble is from falling down, an accident that children with tight foreskins
are specially liable to, owing to the weakening of the muscles produced by the
condition of the genitals.”
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“There can
be no doubt of [masturbation's] injurious
effect, and of the proneness to practice it on the part of children with
defective brains. Circumcision should always be practiced. It may be necessary
to make the genitals so sore by blistering fluids that pain results from
attempts to rub the parts.”
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A
remedy for masturbation which is almost always successful in small boys is
circumcision. The operation should be performed without administering
anesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutory
effect upon the mind, especially, if it is connected with the idea of
punishment, as it may well be in some cases."
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“In all
cases in which male children are suffering nerve tension, confirmed derangement
of the digestive organs, restlessness, irritability, and other disturbances of
the nervous system, even to chorea, convulsions, and paralysis, or where
through nerve waste the nutritive facilities of the general system are below
par and structural diseases are occurring, circumcision should be considered as
among the lines of treatment to be pursued."
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"In
all cases of masturbation circumcision is undoubtedly the physician's closest
friend and ally... To obtain the best results one must cut away enough skin and
mucous membrane to rather put it on the stretch when erections come later.
There must be no play in the skin after the wound has thoroughly healed, but it
must fit tightly over the penis, for should there be any play the patient will
be found to readily resume his practice, not begrudging the time and extra
energy required to produce the orgasm. It is true, however, that the longer it
takes to have an orgasm, the less frequently it will be attempted, consequently
the greater the benefit gained... The younger the patient operated upon the
more pronounced the benefit, though occasionally we find patients who were circumcised
before puberty that require a resection of the skin, as it has grown loose and
pliant after that epoch."
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"Local
indications for circumcision: Hygienic, phimosis, paraphimosis, redundancy
(where the prepuce more than covers the glans), adhesions, papillomata, eczema
(acute and chronic), oedema, chancre, cancroids, cicatrices, inflammatory
thickening, elephantitis, naevus, epithelioma, gangrene, tuberculosis,
prepupital calculi, hip-joint disease, hernia. Systematic indication: Onanism
[masturbation], seminal emissions, enuresis [bed wetting], dysuria, retention,
general nervousness, impotence, convulsions, hystero-epilepsy."
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"It has been urged as
an argument against the universal adoption of circumcision that the removal of
the protective covering of the glans tends to dull the sensitivity of that exquisitely
sensitive structure and thereby diminishes sexual appetite and the pleasurable
effects of coitus. Granted that this be true, my answer is that, whatever may
have been the case in days gone by, sensuality in our time needs neither whip
nor spur, but would be all the better for a little more judicious use of curb
and bearing-rein."
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"Another advantage of
circumcision... is the lessened liability to masturbation. A long foreskin is
irritating ‘per se’, as it necessitates more manipulation of the parts in
bathing... This leads the child to handle the parts, and as a rule, pleasurable
sensations are elicited from the extremely sensitive mucous membrane, with
resultant manipulation and masturbation. The exposure of the glans penis
following circumcision ... lessens the sensitiveness of the organ... It
therefore lies with the physician, the family adviser in affairs of hygiene and
medical, to urge its acceptance."
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"Frequent micturition [urination],
loss of flesh, convulsions, phosphatic calculus, hernia, nervous exhaustion,
dyspepsia, diarrhea, prolapsed of rectum, balanitis, acute phimosis and
masturbation are all conditions induced by the constricted long prepuce, and
all to be rapidly remedied by the simple operation of circumcision."
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“I have repeatedly seen such cases as
convulsions, constant crying in infants, simulated hip joint diseases,
backwardness in studies, enuresis, marasmus, muscular in coordination,
paralysis, masturbation, neurasthenia, and even epilepsy, cured or greatly
benefited by the proper performance of circumcision."
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