POLL OF MEN CIRCUMCISED IN INFANCY/CHILDHOOD.

POLL OF MEN CIRCUMCISED IN INFANCY OR CHILDHOOD.

An estimated 650 million males and 100 million females

living today were genitally altered as children.

 

Annually, 13 million boys and 2 million girls in developing

and developed nations undergo customs of genital cutting,

euphemistically termed 'circumcision'!

 

 

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Link...

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1464-410x.1999.0830s1085.x?cookieSet=1

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CIRCUMCISION VIDEO.

CIRCUMCISION VIDEO.

About This Video:
In this 2-minute excerpt, you will see two separate circumcisions.
The first is the beginning of a 'Plastibell' circumcision and shows the very beginning -
(and then the very end, where you see the baby being picked up)-
of what happens in every hospital circumcision.

The second is a 'Gomco Clamp' circumcision and starts basically where
the first video left off, but after the clamp has been assembled and put on
the baby's penis.

What you see is the tightening of the 'Gomco Clamp'.

The actual circular cut is not shown, but what immediately follows,
when the clamp is left on to assure that the blood has sufficiently clotted;
then finally you will see the wrapping of the penis with gauze, before the
baby is re-diapered.

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                      http://www.circumcisionquotes.com/video.html  

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SEXUAL MUTILATIONS: A HUMAN TRAGEDY.

SEXUAL MUTILATIONS: A HUMAN TRAGEDY.

 

 

The desire by adults to attack the genitals of their infants and

young children with sharp knives is a subject about which a

tremendous amount has been written, the majority of which

attempts to justify and "explain" it, but in a manner which

leaves the larger cultural-social backdrop uncriticized.

 

This paper takes a different approach...

 

 

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 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qof6J4n1860C&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=%22circumcision+industry%22&source=web&ots=-7mMQPhg1G&sig=AZzlX5SBgb4ZfJ08wPjxh6duFS8&hl=en#PPP1,M1 

 

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CIRCUMCISION LOSING FAVOUR WITH U.S. PARENTS.

Circumcision losing favour with U.S. parents.


When Nancy McIlvaine told her parents that her newborn son wouldn't
be circumcised, her mother gasped.

McIlvaine, who lives in Napa with her husband, Willem Maas, said she consulted with health professionals about circumcision and never heard a compelling reason to snip her baby's foreskin.

"It's just inflicting pain to a newborn when there doesn't seem to be any evidence of it being beneficial," said McIlvaine, who gave birth to
Theodore on June 8.

McIlvaine is part of a growing trend away from male circumcision.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the
circumcision rate in the United States dropped to 55.9 percent in 2003 --
an all-time postwar low.    In the early '60s, it peaked at 90 percent.
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http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Circumcision-losing-favor-with-U-S-parents-2585374.php

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CIRCUMCISION VIDEOS.

CIRCUMCISION VIDEOS.

Infant circumcision in the United States has been on a steady decline for several decades, and has been all but abandoned in other medically advanced countries that once practiced it.

Introduced into the U.S. in the late 19th century as a "cure" for masturbation, circumcision became a widespread social custom in America by the mid-20th century.

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  http://www.circumcisionvideos.com/

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CIRCUMCISION: THE UNIQUELY AMERICAN MEDICAL ENIGMA.

CIRCUMCISION:
THE UNIQUELY AMERICAN MEDICAL ENIGMA.

The continuing practice of routine neonatal non-religious circumcision represents an enigma, particularly in the United States.

 

About 80 percent of the world's population do not practice circumcision, nor have they ever done so.

 

Among the non-circumcising nations are Holland, Belgium, France, U.K., Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Scandinavia, Russia, China, Papua New Guinea and Japan.

 

People employing circumcision do so either for 'health' reasons or as a religious ritual practiced by Muslims, Jews, most black Africans, non-white Australians, and others.

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  http://www.cirp.org/library/general/wallerstein/ 

 

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CIRCUMCISION SCAR PROBLEMS.

Problems With The Scar.

Incorrectly performed circumcisions can lead to painful and disfiguring complications.

Botched circumcisions may result in excessive scarring, skin bridges, excessive skin removed and even penectomy with gender reassignment and death.

Such cases are rare, but many men do not know that abnormalities in the appearance of their penises are sometimes the results of a botched circumcision.

Occasionally, the scar can swell or become irritated during intercourse.

Some men with significant amounts of scarring have used cream or silicone scar pads to cause the scar to fade.

There is some controversy as to what happens to the severed nerves of the foreskin at the scar.

Xin et al suggest that nerves regenerate, forming new receptors.

However, pathologists Cold and Taylor assert:
"Histology of the male circumcision scar shows amputation neuromas, Schwann cell proliferation and the bulbous collection of variably sized neurites.  Amputation neuromas do not mediate normal sensation and are notorious for generating pain." 

Other men, many of whom where circumcised as adults, find the circumcision scar to be an erogenous zone in its own right.

Penile cancer can occur on the scar in some cases, the scar can form a tight constricted ring causing preputial stenosis.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision_scar

 

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MALE CIRCUMCISION TO PREVENT HIV.

The Use of Male Circumcision to Prevent HIV Infection.

There have been a number of exaggerated claims made for the alleged efficacy of male circumcision in preventing female-to-male infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

This statement examines those claims and puts them in proper perspective.

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  http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/info/HIVStatement.html  

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HIV INCREASES IN AFRICA.

HIV Increases in Africa Where Most Men Circumcised.


This is not a big shocking surprise to anyone who knows about the immunological and protective functions and purposes of the prepuce foreskin) or the hard, cold facts that when you circumcise men, you increase rates of all STDs (including HIV).
Countries where 99% of men are intact have the lowest rates of HIV.

The United States, with the highest number of circumcised adult men, has
the highest rate of HIV among developed nations.

Condoms prevent the spread of HIV, not circumcision.

This is not a difficult equation to figure out.

But apparently we must wait for the 'experts' amputating foreskins in Africa to tell us this.

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http://www.drmomma.org/2009/09/hiv-increases-in-africa-where-most-men.html 

 

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ACTIVISTS CALL ON THE U.N. - CIRCUMCISION.

ACTIVISTS CALL ON THE UNITED NATIONS TO CLASSIFY MALE CIRCUMCISION AS A HUMAN RIGHTS CRIME.

 

 

Intactivist groups say African Circumcision-HIV studies show

how little men’s rights are valued.

San Diego, CA - July 27, 2005 --

 

In response to results of a male circumcision HIV study presented yesterday at the Third International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, several intactivist groups called on the United Nations to classify circumcision of male children as a human rights crime.

The study, performed on more than 3,000 African men, concluded that circumcision reduced the chance of HIV infection by 65% over an 18 month period.

 

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 http://www.medicalquery.com/ResearchPR/Activists-Call-on-the-United-Nations.htm   

 

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