BABY BOY'S PENIS SEVERED.

Rabbi sued for accidentally SEVERING
newborn baby boy's penis during a circumcision.

A rabbi from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is being sued for severing a newborn baby's penis during a botched Bris ceremony.

The newborn baby boy had to be rushed to Children's Hospital where doctors performed an emergency micro-surgery to reattach the dismembered penis.

CBS reported that the boy needed six blood transfusions and was hospitalized for two months. The delicate surgery took about eight hours long.'There’s virtually no regulation of this any place in the United States that I know of,' Llewellyn said.

'I think the government probably should require some sort of training if this is going to be done.'

'Your average pediatric urologist probably spends about 20 percent of his or her time repairing children who have been circumcised,' Llewellyn told CBS.

 

 

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530755/Jewish-Rabbi-sued-accidentally-SEVERING-newborn-baby-boys-penis-Bris-Ceremony.html 

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AIDS CIRCUMCISION FALLACY.

AIDS CIRCUMCISION FALLACY.

Dr. Dean Edell discusses the misleading and unsound arguments in the current drive to circumcise Africa.



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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlsUg0sdAtE 

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COMPLICATIONS OF CIRCUMCISION.

COMPLICATIONS OF CIRCUMCISION.

With any procedure, it is important to know what complications are possible. Not only does this knowledge guide technique (to minimize the possibility of a poor outcome), but it also allows for a more informed discussion with parents who are considering circumcision for their son and permits improved recognition of problems if and when they occur.

 

• Bleeding
• Infection
• Insufficient foreskin removed
• Excessive foreskin removed
• Adhesions/ Skin bridges
• Inclusion cysts
• Abnormal healing
• Meatitis
• Meatal stenosis
• Urinary retention
• Phimosis
• Chordee
• Hypospadias
• Epispadias
• Urethrocutaneous fistula
• Necrosis of the penis
• Amputation of the glans
• Death

 

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http://newborns.stanford.edu/CircComplications.html 

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MALE CIRCUMCISION IN THE U.S.A.

MALE CIRCUMCISION IN THE USA:
A HUMAN RIGHTS PRIMER.

The American medical establishment has promoted male circumcision as a preventative measure for an astonishing array of pathologies, ranging from masturbatory insanity, moral laxity, aesthetics and hygiene, to headache, tuberculosis, rheumatism, hydrocephalus, epilepsy, paralysis, alcoholism, near-sightedness, rectal prolapse, hernia, gout, clubfoot, urinary tract infections, phimosis, cancer of the penis, cancer of the cervix, syphillis and AIDS. 
But the only rationale which has clear, well established scientific support is the one originally and openly used by the medical establishment when medical circumcision was introduced as a "public health" measure in the Victorian era.

That is, to punish and control the sexuality of male children.
Victorian doctors knew something that modern medicine has chosen to ignore: the foreskin is at the heart of male sexuality.

A typical western medical circumcision results in the loss of approximately 1/2 of the total surface area of the penis and between 50 and 80% or more of its erogenous sexual nerves, including:

• The Taylor "ridged band" [sometimes called the "frenar band"], the primary erogenous zone of the male body. This unique, highly specialized and exquisitely sensitive structure is equipped with soft ridges designed by nature to stimulate the female's inner labia and G-spot during intercourse.
  
• The frenulum, the highly erogenous V-shaped tethering structure on the underside of the head of the penis.
  
• Between 10,000 and 20,000 specialized erotogenic nerve endings of several types, which can feel slight variations in pressure and stretching, subtle changes in temperature, and fine gradations in texture.
  
• Thousands of coiled fine-touch receptors called Meissner's corpuscles, which are also found in the fingertips.

Also lost are:

• The foreskin's gliding action, the non-abrasive gliding of the shaft of the penis within its own sheath, which facilitates smooth, comfortable and pleasurable intercourse for both partners.
  
• The "subpreputual wetness" which protects the mucosa of the glans (and inner foreskin), and which contains immunoglobulin antibodies and antibacterial and antiviral proteins such as the pathogen-killing enzyme lysozyme, a potent HIV killer which is also found in tears and mothers' milk.
  
• Estrogen receptors, the purpose of which is not fully understood.
  
• The foreskin's apocrine glands, which produce pheromones.
  
• The protection and lubrication of the erogenous surface of the penis, which is designed by nature to be an internal organ like the vagina. Natural sex involves contact between two internal organs.

In essence, medical male genital mutilation (MGM) is the pathologization and treatment of the "disease" of male sexuality.

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http://members.tranquility.net/~rwinkel/MGM/primer.html 

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NEED TO RE-DO CIRCUMCISION RISES.

Need to Re-Do Circumcision Rises; Reasons Unclear.

An unexplained increase in the number of revision circumcisions has pediatric urologists wondering whether the finding is real and, if so, what caused it.

Data contributed by pediatric hospitals nationwide showed a 119% increase in the rate of revision circumcision procedures from 2004 to 2009.

In contrast, the rate of primary circumcision increased by 19%, and procedures to remove penile adhesions rose by 37%.
"We found that certain hospitals had dramatic rises in revision circumcision procedures [approaching 1,000% in some cases] while others had more modest increases," said Kokorowski, of Children's Hospital Boston.
"Only three hospitals showed stable rates or slight decreases," he said.

They identified pediatric patients who underwent one of three types of specific penile procedures.

The analysis included 34,568 patients who underwent one of the targeted procedures.
The total consisted of 5,632 revision circumcisions, 25,768 primary circumcisions, and 3,168 procedures for lysis of penile adhesions.

 

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http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/AAP/29075 

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D.O.C. GENITAL INTEGRITY POLICY STATEMENT.

Doctors Opposing Circumcision -
Genital Integrity Policy Statement.

Doctors Opposing Circumcision (DOC) is a non-governmental, non-profit, educational organization, organized by medical doctors who support genital integrity and who oppose non-therapeutic genital cutting of infants and children.

Female circumcision already is recognized generally as a harmful operation and a violation of human rights.  Laws have been passed to protect girls, but boys have not been protected.

This statement, therefore, will concentrate on the protection of the genital integrity of male infants and children.
     

Several medical societies in English-speaking nations have issued position statements regarding the circumcision of male children.

 

These societies are composed of members, many of whom perform circumcision. The first duty of medical societies appears to be to protect and advance the financial and legal interests of their members.
(The practice of non-therapeutic child circumcision generates about $1.2 billion annually for the American medical community.)

 

Under these circumstances, there is a conflict of interest that hampers honest discussion of the issues.  Goldman argues that medical society circumcision policy statements are biased in favor of circumcision for a variety of emotional and social-political factors.

 

Emotional factors include the avoidance of the emotional discomfort of questioning one's own circumcision by circumcised doctors, and the protection of self-esteem by those who have performed hundreds or thousands of circumcisions.

 

       Social-political factors include a division of opinion and a desire to avoid an appearance of religious intolerance.

 

Goldman observes that discussions of sexual, psychological, human rights, ethical, and legal issues frequently are excluded from medical society circumcision policy statements.

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http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/DOC/statement01.html 

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THE PREPUCE.

THE PREPUCE.

The prepuce is a common anatomical structure of the male and female external genitalia of all human and non-human primates; it has been present in primates for at least 65 million years, and is likely to be over 100 million years old, based on its commonality as an anatomical feature in mammals.    Certain cultures have excised the prepuce from children to conform to societal standards, while other cultures accept the complete external genitalia as normal.   The motives for circumcision in preliterate cultures are difficult to define, but include rites of passage, blood sacrifices and cultural markings.   Ritualistic, childhood genital surgery has become popular in the last several thousand years, making the prepuce the most vilified normal anatomical structure of the human body.   Rather than acknowledging the prepuce as normal anatomy, some contemporary physicians consider the penile and clitoral prepuce (or clitoral hood) to be dangerous and unhealthy.   However, before theoretical justifications for circumcision can be considered, a complete understanding of the normal anatomy and function of the prepuce is required.   This paper reviews the embryology, anatomy and function of the prepuce.

Overview:-

The prepuce is an integral, normal part of the external genitalia that forms the anatomical covering of the glans penis and clitoris.

 

The outer epithelium has the protective function of internalising the glans (clitoris and penis), urethral meatus (in the male) and the inner preputial epithelium, thus decreasing external irritation or contamination.

 

The prepuce is a specialized, junctional mucocutaneous tissue which marks the boundary between mucosa and skin; it is similar to the eyelids, labia minora, anus and lips.

 

The male prepuce also provides adequate mucosa and skin to cover the entire penis during erection.

 

The unique innervation of the prepuce establishes its function as an erogenous tissue.

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http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/cold-taylor/ 

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PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF CIRCUMCISION ON MEN.

PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT

OF CIRCUMCISION ON MEN.

"I feel violated and abused."

FEELINGS OF DISSATISFACTION AND HAVING BEEN HARMED.

The dissatisfaction of some circumcised men can be described in detail.

It has been expressed in an increasing number of letters from men all around the country to the Circumcision Resource Center and to several other organizations that educate the public about circumcision.

 

Moreover, in an issue of a major medical journal, twenty men signed a letter saying, “We are all adult men who believe that we have been harmed by circumcision.”
We do not know how widespread the discontent is, but that these feelings exist at all is a noteworthy development and reason for concern.

Following are some statements about circumcision excerpted from letters written by dissatisfied circumcised men and received at the Circumcision Resource Center:

• I have felt a deep rage for a long time about this.
• My penis feels incomplete, deformed, maimed.
• Circumcision has given my life a much diminished and shameful flavour.
• The single most traumatic event of my life with the greatest psychological damage was my circumcision as an infant.
• Circumcision: it’s taught me how to hate.
• Being circumcised has ruined my sex life.

 

The responses of men dissatisfied with their circumcision tend to include at least one of the following feelings:

• anger, resentment, revenge, rage, hate
• sense of loss, deficiency, diminished body image
• disbelief, lack of understanding, confusion
• embarrassment, shame
• sense of having been victimized, cheated, robbed, raped,
• violated, abused, mutilated, deformed
• fear, distrust, withdrawal
• grief, sadness, pain
• envy, jealousy of intact men

Similar feelings were reported in a preliminary survey in which over 300  self-selected circumcised men responded to a request to document the harmful effects of their circumcision.
Over 80 percent of respondents cited emotional harm.

 

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http://www.circumcision.org/impact.htm 

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WHY SOUTH AFRICANS RISK DEATH AND INJURY.

Why South Africans risk death and injury to be circumcised.

Circumcision is seen as a rite of passage into manhood by some South African ethnic groups.

Males who have not undergone the ritual are not considered real men; they are ridiculed and ostracised.

This is why thousands of young men and boys risk injury and even death to undergo the procedure during "initiation schools" in the bush.

"The practice has become a way for chancers to make money."

In a nearby hospital, a mother is in tears as she strokes her son's head.
He is still frail following months of treatment for a septic circumcision which also resulted in a penile amputation.

"Our children are dying like ants. I want the people doing this to be arrested and punished," she says, angrily.

Botched circumcisions have led to the deaths of more than 240 boys - some as young as 13 - in the last five years, officials say.

 

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19256839 

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LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES OF NEONATAL CIRCUMCISION.

Long Term Consequences of Neonatal Circumcision:
A Preliminary Poll of Circumcised Males.

Male foreskin amputation, euphemistically termed "circumcision," has persisted in various cultures with the unsubstantiated belief that it is a trivial or benign practice.
This has been due in part to the silence of the victims.
Indeed, when male genital mutilation occurs at puberty, a male's silence during the cutting is a measure of his manhood.
Today, men's silence about these mutilations is being broken and they are demanding to be heard.

...the American medical profession has not yet established an accurate and consistent  method of recording these complications.


Reported Circumcision-Caused Harm...
Of the 313 circumcised men participating in the study, 96.2% suspected or were confident that circumcision had resulted in a reduction of normal male capacity for sexual response and pleasure.
The percentage breakdown of categories of circumcision-caused harm are as follows:

Sexual Harm: 84%
Emotional Harm: 83.1%
Physical Harm: 81.5%
Psychological Harm: 75.1%
Low Self-Esteem: 74.4%
Problems with Intimate Relationships: 44.7%
Problems with Addictions/Dependencies: 25.6%

A remaining 13.1% of respondents variously attributed their non-intact state to their problems with masculine identity, self-confidence, and fear of doctors.
Of the 313 circumcised men participating in the study, 55.3% attributed the following physical problems to their circumcision:

Insensitivity of the glans penis: 55.3%
Excess stimulation required to reach orgasm: 38.0%
Prominent scarring: 29.1%
Insufficient residual shaft skin to cover the erect penis: 26.8%

 

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http://www.noharmm.org/synopsis.htm 

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