THE BACKLASH AGAINST CIRCUMCISION.

THE BACKLASH AGAINST CIRCUMCISION.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Expectant parents have loads of decisions to make, from whether to find out the baby's gender beforehand to planning the birth.

But recently some have taken up another debate, over a cut that used to be nearly as routine in the U.S. as that of the umbilical cord: circumcision.

When Jessica Davis learned she was having a boy, she and her husband assumed that the baby's foreskin would be removed.

But when asked why by her obstetrician, who is originally from South Africa, where circumcision is rare, Davis, 28, a college administrator, did research and decided that the risks trumped the benefits.

She left her son Aiden, now 20 months, intact--though she says her spouse remains leery of the decision: "He's kind of like, 'Well, I work just fine.' "

Opponents, on the other hand, say foreskin-related afflictions are rare, condoms block STDs, and circumcision has its risks. Michelle Richardson, of Fort Worth, Texas, says her 5-year-old has two genital disorders due to his botched circumcision.

The debate has even extended to the religious practice of Jews. 
Instead of opting for a bris, the rite in which a boy's foreskin is removed at 8 days old, Theo Margaritov's family welcomed him in April with a brit shalom, a cut-free ceremony.

"That's the way God made him," says his mom Deborah.
 

 

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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1680141,00.html 

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PHOTOGRAPHS OF INTACT MALE FORESKIN.

33 Photographs of the Intact Adult Male Foreskin.

 

 

These 33 photographs were originally exhibited at the Third International Symposium on Circumcision at the University of Maryland.

 

 

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http://www.foreskin.org/33-color.htm 

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EARLY THERAPY FOR 'HIV' VITAL.

EARLY THERAPY FOR 'HIV' VITAL.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New insight into the optimal timing of therapy for HIV infection could give patients a better chance of responding to potential cure strategies of the future.

 

A new study has found antiretroviral therapy administered within four months of HIV infection restores the immune system back to healthy levels.

 

Patients demonstrated stronger and faster recovery of the body’s CD4+ T-cells than patients who started therapy later. CD4+ T-cells are specialised immune cells required to fight infections and are depleted during HIV infection.

 

 

 

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http://www.virtualmedicalcentre.com/news/early-therapy-for-hiv-vital/18359?utm_source=VMC+CONSUMER+subscribers&utm_campaign=e62fb32350-Consumer_Newsletter_07_03_13_Issue_143_Epilepsy&utm_medium=email 

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GENITAL MUTILATION AMERICAN STYLE.

GENITAL MUTILATION AMERICAN STYLE.

 

 

Most Americans, when presented with the information that approximately 97% of the world's infant male population is not circumcised, are rather astounded.

 

"But I thought everybody was circumcised.  I thought it was a medically necessary thing to do," said a friend when I brought up the issue a few weeks ago.

 

"Nope," I replied, "not even close".
The foreskin is not a birth defect needing remedy by the A.M.A. Nobody in all of Europe, non-Muslim Asia, or Latin America is routinely circumcised.

 

In fact, the only people who routinely cut off the most erogenous part of their boys' penis are Jews, Muslims, certain tribal groups in far-flung parts of the world and... the United States.

 

"Everybody else leaves their sons intact as nature made them."

This is a fact. Indisputable. Most leave their girls intact, too.

 

In our culture, unlike other more civilized societies, it is perfectly acceptable to amputate the male prepuce against the shrieking protests of the victims.

 

Our national chauvinism has blinded us to our own human rights abuses, against our sons, and does not allow us to see anything wrong.

 

I never saw anything wrong with it either until I witnessed my own son being circumcised.

 

The doctor assured me it was a simple little snip of extra skin that had no function and that really didn't hurt the infant.

"You want him to look like you, don't you?"

 

Well, since I really hadn't thought much about it, and since I, too, had gone under the knife at birth, I said "Sure. I guess so. Why not?"

 

 

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http://www.fathermag.com/health/circ/gmas/ 

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GIRLS AT RISK OF GENITAL MUTILATION.

2,000 girls in Bristol at risk of genital mutilation.

Around 2,000 girls in Bristol are at risk of falling victim to an illegal operation that can cause death or serious illness.

 

Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female circumcision, is widely practised in Somalia, more than 20 other African countries and areas of Asia, South America and the Middle East.

 

Healthcare professionals, policy makers, educationalists and police representatives attended a day of performances and awards yesterday held at The City Academy Bristol in Lawrence Hill to help raise awareness of the illegal practice.

 

FGM involves the partial or total removal of external female genitalia.

 

It carries the risk of death from bleeding or tetanus, and long-term problems including urinary incontinence, recurrent infections and chronic pain.

 

In some cases, reversal procedures are necessary for childbirth.

 

 

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http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/2-000-girls-Bristol-risk-genital-mutilation/story-18076047-detail/story.html#axzz2MncesHcC 

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MANUAL METHODS OF FORESKIN RESTORATION.

MANUAL METHODS OF FORESKIN RESTORATION.

Manual restoration methods.

 

Warning!  Overly aggressive tugging by using these methods can result in serious physical injury if you don't know your limitations!
 

Methods 1, and 2 are "iso-local specific", and intense in each of the divisional 1/3 areas (compared to tape or tugging devices which spread the load out over the entire shaft skin area).

 

You can "overstrain" the area from too much force, and you will feel a sudden sharp burning stabbing pain, and the skin area can go numb for months.

(It is the same as when you strain a muscle in a sports injury).

 

Just apply "gradual" spreading force with NO pain, and learn your limits!
(I learned this lesson the hard way).

During each session (if you spend as much time as I do) - (about 1hr. total, twice a day) you will reach a point where your skin will start getting sore, and pink/red from all the activity, because your fingers will tend to slip on the skin surface from lack of friction, especially during the winter-time when the air is drier, and your skin might be too dry also.

 

(It helps to have a wet washcloth nearby to keep your fingers damp if you can't get enough friction to grab the skin good).   (Same effect as licking a finger to make it easier to turn a page in a book).
 

I have also noticed while using waxed thread (for shoe/moccasin making) that the wax that ended up on my fingers also assisted skin friction for these tugging methods.

If you keep tugging beyond the point of this sore feeling, you might start getting "chaffed", (if you keep grabbing the same area "too much").

If you get sore, then stop for 6-7 hours until the soreness goes away.

Usually, I will get a "itchy" feeling down there when it's time to do it again.

One more problem that has arose in these methods, is from wearing snug fitting briefs that help hold the developing new foreskin over the glans once you have enough skin.

 

I wear my penis pointed down, and snug up against my scrotum while in my briefs.

 

I position it where the skin is over the glans, and hold my penis snug against the scrotum, and with it going sort of in between my legs with one hand as I pull my briefs up with my other hand fairly snug.

 

This helps keep the foreskin in place over the glans, and works at night even with a nocturnal erection usually (once you have enough skin).

 

The problem is, in the summertime activities, sometimes it gets too sweaty up snug like this, and the skin can't get enough air circulating around it, and it will start to break down.

 

It will turn "slimey" (similar to foot "jungle rot" from constantly damp boots on soldiers in Vietnam), and you will get a sore rash (even if you take a bath everyday).

 

I used a few squares of tissue paper or cloth in between penis and scrotum to stop the problem.
 

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http://pages.suddenlink.net/manual_methods/index.html

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CLINTON DISRUPTED BY INTACTIVISTS.

PRESIDENT CLINTON'S EVENT DISRUPTED

BY ANTI-CIRCUMCISION ACTIVISTS.

 

 

Surely, President Clinton was a little freaked out last night when in the middle of his event -- a Clinton Foundation Millennium Network talk in New York featuring the former president, Chelsea Clinton, and actor Ed Norton -- a whistle blew and a group of men stood up, held hands, and chanted,

"Stop exploiting Africans; circumcision does not stop AIDS!"

 

The protesters were self-described "intactivists" -- those who believe that circumcision is actually a mutilation of the genitals.

 

Although circumcision is routinely performed on infants in the United States, it is not in other developed countries.

 

Germans even moved to outlaw the practice last year (though Jews stopped the law on religious grounds), and it is banned in some Australian hospitals.

 

Circumcision became widely popular as a means to prevent males from masturbating.

 

Today's medical establishment generally supports circumcision, arguing that it has preventive effects for penile cancer and other diseases, though some studies say it leads to erectile dysfunction and other problems.

 

 

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http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2013/03/clinton_foundation_circumcision_protest.php 

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CIRCUMCISION: A MALE'S PERSPECTIVE.

CIRCUMCISION: A MALE'S PERSPECTIVE.

 

 

[ The Man-Nurse Diaries ]

 

Before having my first son, we were presented with the routine decision (at least in the United States) of whether to circumcise him.

 

While we were initially assuming we would, we did some research.

 

We began finding out that only is male infant circumcision almost never medically necessary, but it's not even performed by most of the developed world.

 

Most European countries never began circumcising in the first place.

 

The United Kingdom doesn't pay for it; it's an out-of-pocket expense.

 

The United States is the only secular country which routinely circumcises males.

 

 

 

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http://mannursediaries.blogspot.com.au/2010/03/circumcision-males-perspective.html 

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WON'T CIRCUMCISION ENCOURAGE PROMISCUITY?

WON'T CIRCUMCISION ENCOURAGE PROMISCUITY?

 

(...and the brain-washing & rhetoric go on, and on, and on, and on...) 

 

Question:

 

Dear Doctor,

My son is 18 years-old and in his S.4 holidays.
 

Recently, he was circumcised because he heard that it reduces the risk of contracting HIV.

I have been counselling my children to abstain from sex until they get married, since this is the only sure way to avoid the dreaded disease.

However, now I fear he may become sexually active.
 

Don’t you think that the current craze about the wonders of circumcision might encourage sexual promiscuity, as it sends mixed messages?
 

~Victoria.

 

 

Answer:

 

Dear Victoria,
 

Your son should be commended for choosing to be circumcised, whether he is sexually active or not.

Circumcision is a biomedical HIV prevention procedure, which has been proven scientifically to reduce the risk of acquiring HIV in men, by at least 60%. (possibly 60%!!!!!! - how about 100%???)

(Brian Morris, Australia's No.1  proponent of male genital mutilation, calls circumcision - 'a surgical vaccine'!! No way!! Rhetorical lies & BS!!)

 

Many people actually abstain from sex, only to be infected with HIV when they become sexually active.

This is because they engage in unsafe sexual practices.

 

By being circumcised, your son has reduced this risk, but also needs to use other proven HIV prevention strategies like abstaining, since he is not yet married. (Well! what do you know... don't have sex and you won't catch AIDS!)

 

He should also be faithful to his sexual partner in future, whose HIV status is known to him and use condoms whenever he is not sure of his safety.

It is the rational use of a combination of different prevention methods, other than one, which will help us stop this disease.

At the moment, we are vigorously promoting circumcision because most Ugandan men are not circumcised and the target is to circumcise at least 4.2 million men by 2015.

 

It is estimated that if this target is met, we shall avert 400,000 new HIV infections, which will be a significant number as we move towards zero new infections.

 

 

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http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/638354-won-t-circumcision-encourage-promiscuity.html 

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HIV TRIAL: THE UGANDAN DISASTER.

HIV TRIAL: THE UGANDAN DISASTER.

 

[Tues. 05th March, 2013]

 

The long awaited results of the HIV trial done in Uganda, have turned disappointing after the study failed to show any significant effect of the drugs that were being tested.
 

The results of the trials, which were also done in South Africa and Zimbabwe, were however attributed to the failure of participants to use the drugs as advised.

The results of the Microbicide trial, the Vaginal + Oral Interventions to Control the Epidemic (VOICE), were released Monday at the international Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Atlanta Georgia.
 

The drugs used in the failed trials included Tenofovir tablets, Tenofovir Gel and Truvada tablets.

322 women in Kampala were enrolled by Makerere University and the John Hopkins University collaboration (MU-JHU) at the Mulago site and given microbicides to test if they could yield the first even women controlled prevention strategy against HIV.

Some women were told to insert a vaginal gel and others to swallow tablets of either Tenofovir or Truvada every day.
 

The study, which was carried out in three African Countries had 5,029 participants selected from the highest risk group.

Clinical exams were done every three months as needed and pelvic examinations every six months.

 

Results released suggested that the daily use of the drugs did not appear to lessen the risk of HIV infection.

On closer analysis, it was discovered that the participants did not adhere to the instructions and most of them did not actually take the drugs.

“It is difficult to know if a product works to prevent HIV if it is not used,” the researchers stated adding that the poor adherence affected the study results.

Researchers conclude that it was difficult for the younger unmarried women under 25 years to use HIV prevention products daily.

Truvada had been found effective in other studies and was subsequently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for HIV prevention.
 

The World Health Organisation (WHO) even issued guidance on preventive use of Truvada, encourages countries considering using it to prevent transmission - Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to do so in the context of demonstration projects. However, the formal implementation guidelines for PrEP are expected in 2015.

The researchers carried out tests that measure the drugs in the body of participants using their blood, vaginal fluids and hair and discovered that the women who actually took the drugs were 29% in the Truvada group, 28% in oral Tenofovir group and 23% in the Tenofovir Gel group.

Dr Clemensia Nakabiito, the study coordinator at Mulago, said the bad news will not stop them from continuing the struggle until a new prevention technology is found.

“HIV affects more women and we have to continue looking for a method they can use to protect themselves without necessarily seeking permission from their husbands,” she said.

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http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/640350-mulago-hiv-drug-trial-disappoints-researchers.html 

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