tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5482486857291336912024-03-12T15:58:55.847-07:00Joseph4GIThere are plenty of pro-circumcision "information resources." In this blog, I present what they leave out.Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.comBlogger378125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-56763540817550041442024-01-05T12:20:00.000-08:002024-01-06T03:58:17.366-08:00"I Said Stop!!!" - Is Orgasm Too Intense for Circumcised Men?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizp64i6yDU9HC2p5rLWCOeZmfJQonIqOgwmzeNPPVL7GnDzjcYcMdXMLBPIgqfOz-OsbIs-LMgHnQKxqHa9jILt-DppxNJp1FoaKEth2lqSJFVtOQ6ey91nBsyaaXVYWADY8hCKBB5KcQn3OAolERuJdDhxtWcdQxVoXNaJApidpfzMmXppwm_vBqrWw/s540/stop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="540" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizp64i6yDU9HC2p5rLWCOeZmfJQonIqOgwmzeNPPVL7GnDzjcYcMdXMLBPIgqfOz-OsbIs-LMgHnQKxqHa9jILt-DppxNJp1FoaKEth2lqSJFVtOQ6ey91nBsyaaXVYWADY8hCKBB5KcQn3OAolERuJdDhxtWcdQxVoXNaJApidpfzMmXppwm_vBqrWw/w400-h266/stop.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>This is going to be a little bit different than most other blog posts I write.</p><p>Usually, I post to report some finding or to comment on something.</p><p>But for this, admittedly, it's uncharted territory, it's more of an inquiry and an invitation for people to share their experiences.</p><p>I'm going to come out and say that I have by biases as an intactivist.</p><p>As far as I know, male circumcision was taken up by Western Medicine during the Victorian period as a possible solution to masturbation, which was seen as the root of all evil. Circumcision was supposed to desensitize the penis, making it difficult to masturbate, and, if research is correct, that's precisely what it does.</p><p>Circumcision necessarily results in the desensitization of the penis, because it removes hundreds if not thousands of specialized nerve endings, and the exposed glans and surrounding mucosa become dry and develop a layer of keratin over time in a process called keratinization. It is a well-known fact that circumcised men often find it difficult to masturbate without artificial lubrication, such as K-Y Jelly or Vaseline.<br /></p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe8DcaxRGSbiDOJ4zu0zCqlNEzVMF1Nm2UbFaSO3bJly5PPSx69xZDYWkmJHgvER1JlomOnruSuP2l92BxRyBcwnXJ15WuqkplMelsjyFLi56tyruwLjyvGPn5ZKBoRpSSp6XhCxcK5VwjPNtO133taPbGuQKG9hKWwTLUfcsJeiFNbyuvH-puYuFfjg/s770/IMG_1568.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="770" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe8DcaxRGSbiDOJ4zu0zCqlNEzVMF1Nm2UbFaSO3bJly5PPSx69xZDYWkmJHgvER1JlomOnruSuP2l92BxRyBcwnXJ15WuqkplMelsjyFLi56tyruwLjyvGPn5ZKBoRpSSp6XhCxcK5VwjPNtO133taPbGuQKG9hKWwTLUfcsJeiFNbyuvH-puYuFfjg/w400-h206/IMG_1568.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <br /><p></p><p><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17378847/">Sorrells et al</a> found that circumcised penises become desensitized by a factor of 4.</p><p>It had long been established and well-documented that circumcision diminished sensation and made it difficult to masturbate. <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2023/12/male-infant-circumcision-is-genital.html">This was the whole reason for its adaptation</a>.</p><p>And yet, here and there, I have often heard circumcised men comment to the effect that<i> "I don't need any more sensation. If I had any more sensation I'd have a heart attack!"</i></p><p>For the longest time I wanted to ignore such men, because in my head, I thought they were merely playing Aesop's fox to sour grapes.</p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiIDJIbPBM54OXWW2cm3wey0tsLhu-ebXHUrdW306SN8RwVQYLZHqcF4PXTIsKqgHZYNH_r_n10VSB2u1ocRWNrtXPsJgdL8Bln5wrizRnHfNE-yLQur3uCu2S7KdQBMrfHLv2c3BwnCC-Ew4jM9WJORC-yMtbm4GYOGO3t_qcrfDNe-lNIRtUS3Bobw/s610/Le_renard_et_les_raisins_1900.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiIDJIbPBM54OXWW2cm3wey0tsLhu-ebXHUrdW306SN8RwVQYLZHqcF4PXTIsKqgHZYNH_r_n10VSB2u1ocRWNrtXPsJgdL8Bln5wrizRnHfNE-yLQur3uCu2S7KdQBMrfHLv2c3BwnCC-Ew4jM9WJORC-yMtbm4GYOGO3t_qcrfDNe-lNIRtUS3Bobw/s320/Le_renard_et_les_raisins_1900.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><br /> "They're bluffing," I thought.<br /><p></p><p>"They must be overcompensating for the fact that they're circumcised and there's nothing they can do about it," or so I thought.</p><p>It's impossible.</p><p>They can't possibly be feeling the sensations they say they do. How could they?</p><p>But then I started talking to my circle of friends. People who had gone around the block. Female friends, male gay friends, and they all talked about a particular phenomenon that they had experienced with circumcised sex partners.</p><p>This wasn't the case with every circumcised man, as men are cut differently. Some men are cut loose, others as tight as a drum, and then some men have more, some have less sensitive inner mucosa left, others have retained their frenulum, others not, so every man is different.</p><p>Still, I kept hearing about this phenomenon where, a friend would be having sex with a circumcised man, or s/he would be performing fellatio on him, and things would be going well. But all of a sudden, there is this sudden rise of intensity, the circumcised man orgasms, ejaculates, and all of a sudden he does not want to be touched.</p><p>My friends would report that after being mounted, often times what will happen is, the guy gets off, rolls over and, instead of cuddling, the guy pushes his partner away. While my friends reported they'd like to stay together, spoon, hug, etc., their partners would often rather not want to be touched.</p><p>One of my friends said that one time, she was fellating a partner, there was that sudden jump in intensity, her partner climaxed and ejaculated, but she wanted to continue fellating him. She said he yelled <i>"I said STOP!!!"</i>, as he pushed her away.</p><p>This is the darndest thing.</p><p>Just recently, I was having conversations about sex with two different male friends. One of them is gay, the other one is straight, both cut. It occurred to me to ask them about their experience with their partners. I asked them if they had experienced what I'm talking about, and they both answered with a resounding "YES."</p><p>One friend, the straight one, told me that, he feels rather desensitized for the most part. When a woman is going down on him, he says he has to ask her to suck hard like a vacuum cleaner, because otherwise he can't feel anything. He says that the intensity will build up, but it rises suddenly, very suddenly, he'll orgasm, ejaculate, but he has to ask his partner to stop, because oftentimes they like to keep going. It's as if, after orgasm, his penis becomes super extra sensitive and he can't handle anyone touching it.<br /></p><p>My gay friend, who is a top, tells me that he'll be penetrating a partner, but then once he orgasms, <i>"It comes to be too much,"</i> he says. He says his partners often want him to stay inside, but this is something he's had to "work" on. Otherwise he too wants to pull out as soon as possible and demand to be left alone for a while, while it wears off. I ask him what he thinks it could be, and he said that perhaps its that circumcision may have "re-wired" his penis. This would make sense; circumcision severs the nerves connected to the foreskin, and after this, the nerves would have to reconfigure themselves to fire differently, wouldn't they.</p><p>I don't know how this works; it sounds like something researchers should definitely be looking into.</p><p>For me this seems something like a paradox. On the one hand, men circumcised men become desensitized. But at the same time, some men seem to become super sensitive after orgasm. This must be what circumcised men mean when they say <i>"I couldn't handle more sensitivity than I have now."</i></p><p>I for one can't identify with this experience; after orgasm, I prefer to stay as deep and as close to my wife as possible and I would never push her away. <br /></p><p>But how widespread is this phenomenon?</p><p>This can't happen with every circumcised guy.</p><p>Can it?</p><p>Is this something scientists and researchers need to be looking into?</p><p>If it negatively impacts intimate experiences with partners, I should hope so.</p><p>It would be interesting to hear what other people's experiences are.</p><p>I invite you to please comment below.</p><p><b>Related Links:</b></p><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2023/12/male-infant-circumcision-is-genital.html">Male Infant Circumcision is Genital Mutilation</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2023/11/male-infant-circumcision-has-no-basis.html">Male Infant Circumcision Has No Basis in Modern Medicine</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;">External Links:</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17378847/">Fine-touch pressure thresholds in the adult penis</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235394386_Male_circumcision_decreases_penile_sensitivity_as_measured_in_a_large_cohort">Male circumcision decreases penile sensitivity as measured in a large cohort</a></div><p></p>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-73226074027818300032024-01-04T18:20:00.000-08:002024-01-04T18:41:58.167-08:00@Joseph4GI Suspended for "Harassment"<p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUH3XkNkScaas__tftZdivtnRDMaFgfJYBh5yJMziSna74e0dszR9miHhKw8JWs46HKDitVAIoq2rjWrqL2zExLWhy43zTlvNjxrNHUwr4LHUgSZR_UJHnfJ38IaSM3YpfSozWeYGEh56ELcLVXuFv4V-B88Xq9Eqxt_mPZY5W8DPmi9xiqCCU5SvWEQ/s500/twitter%20jail.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="499" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUH3XkNkScaas__tftZdivtnRDMaFgfJYBh5yJMziSna74e0dszR9miHhKw8JWs46HKDitVAIoq2rjWrqL2zExLWhy43zTlvNjxrNHUwr4LHUgSZR_UJHnfJ38IaSM3YpfSozWeYGEh56ELcLVXuFv4V-B88Xq9Eqxt_mPZY5W8DPmi9xiqCCU5SvWEQ/s320/twitter%20jail.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"</i><span><i>Truth suppress'd, whether by courts or crooks, will find an avenue to be told."</i><br />~<i>Sheila Steele</i></span></span></p></blockquote><p>I've been locked out of #Twitter / #X <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2020/02/the-state-of-affairs-for-joseph4gi.html">before</a>.</p><p>And it's always the same, isn't it; if the people who want to silence you can somehow construe what you have said as <i>"harassment,"</i> then they can have you silenced.</p><p>The funny thing is, I think I know who did it, and if it's the person I think it is, then it's ironic.</p><p>It's a person who has the Twitter/X user handle @JulesMagaGirl.</p><p>Yes, she's a "MAGA" girl?</p><p>You know?</p><p>The kind of people that go on and on about "cancel culture?"</p><p>Well, it sounds like one of the anti- #cancelculture crowd is engaging in the very thing she says she hates.</p><p>A few days ago, I got notification that my X/Twitter account was suspended because one of my Tweets was labeled <i>"harassment," </i>and I was given the option to either delete the Tweet or appeal. I appealed, and I got the notification back that my appeal was refused, and I appealed again, because I know that the Tweet is not <i>"harassment"</i> as it is claimed.</p><p>It may be the last of my Twitter account, because I know for a fact that what I tweeted is not <i>"harassment,"</i> and I sure as heck am not deleting the Tweet.</p><p>I'd like to use this blog post to make the case that Twitter/X does not allow me to make. I'm not sure if I'm caught by an automated system, or if there is a live person on Twitter trying to FORCE me to remove the tweet that is keeping my account suspended.</p><p>It went like this:</p><p>This user, @JulesMagaGirl had been arguing back and forth on a Twitter thread about circumcision being mutilation, and I happened to be part of it.</p><p>The user typically proceeds to post all the usual alibis and excuses for forcibly slicing off part of a healthy, non-consenting child's penis.</p><p>It's "healthy," "cleaner," it "prevents STDs," all the usual stuff.</p><p>But in one tweet, she tries to argue that male infant circumcision "does not have to do with genitals."</p><p>I can't remember exactly what was said because I CAN'T ACCESS MY ACCOUNT, but she actually tries to say "Male infant circumcision is not in any way cutting away any part of the genitals."</p><p>To which I post the following tweet:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqg_A8Un33AzSLgYFS2z8UmOam0FApNIHagZMkD51UOBWW4_AqBFZSFD4kqbzMV6GhyZmcDnYuUepwKVeU2fkotIiFi0qSDC7Xr2UxQ2cNQUc7_txLqUgCKQjsiLXb6G637gODC5fRPgCZ8ThZBhcD0zVzhuwhJVbn4FU9YRqKBEQO0eBduIcRpYfLdQ/s1686/the%20tweet%20that%20got%20me%20suspended%20HIGHLIGHTED.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1686" data-original-width="1125" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqg_A8Un33AzSLgYFS2z8UmOam0FApNIHagZMkD51UOBWW4_AqBFZSFD4kqbzMV6GhyZmcDnYuUepwKVeU2fkotIiFi0qSDC7Xr2UxQ2cNQUc7_txLqUgCKQjsiLXb6G637gODC5fRPgCZ8ThZBhcD0zVzhuwhJVbn4FU9YRqKBEQO0eBduIcRpYfLdQ/w268-h400/the%20tweet%20that%20got%20me%20suspended%20HIGHLIGHTED.png" width="268" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Highlighted in my Tweet: <i>"Those look like genitals to me..."</i></span></div><i></i><p></p><p>This is the Tweet that got me suspended from my account.</p><p>This is what passes for <i>"harassment"</i> in the eyes of some Twitter/X hall monitor. <br /></p><p>If you look closely, all it is is just a rebuttal to the girl's claim that circumcision<i> "doesn't remove anything from the genitals."</i></p><p>The tweet includes a clear picture of a circumcision.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVFsMwZumjqnKfXXvHOkvpXh4oqTFH_1-nAIFBWODkcDC-bpqWwkoegbb4Ax5qF7tmkJM9HwPT8CXfRTloC6QlVH67i8bqyCcAr0y8EBNhoxajif5tKBzMxJv4D1j5M-Ay-nGWyRhpJ6-raXm8xRA6ur12SH82JAAnbf_KeGfOppJjOIcDSJMcOdgHUg/s719/GM.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="719" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVFsMwZumjqnKfXXvHOkvpXh4oqTFH_1-nAIFBWODkcDC-bpqWwkoegbb4Ax5qF7tmkJM9HwPT8CXfRTloC6QlVH67i8bqyCcAr0y8EBNhoxajif5tKBzMxJv4D1j5M-Ay-nGWyRhpJ6-raXm8xRA6ur12SH82JAAnbf_KeGfOppJjOIcDSJMcOdgHUg/w400-h193/GM.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>It should be obvious to anyone with eyeballs and two brain cells to rub together that circumcision clearly removes tissue from the genitals.</p><p>Where else could circumcision be removing anything from?</p><p>The nose?</p><p>The chin?</p><p>The knee?</p><p>@JulesMagaGirl is clearly delusional, as the fact that circumcision is clearly an act of male genital mutilation is clear as day from the picture I posted.</p><p>The thread goes on and on with other attempts at arguments that @JulesMagaGirl tries to make.</p><p>Parental choice. (Which would also apply to FGM.)</p><p>Retention of the ability to orgasm. (Also true of FGM.)</p><p>Retention of the ability to procreate. (Also true of FGM.)</p><p>All the usual canned stuff.</p><p>But the above Tweet is the one that got me cancelled.</p><p>I'm still waiting for that appeal, because as it is easy for anyone to see, I have not engaged in any <i>"harassment,"</i> unless the <i>"harassment"</i> is adequate rebuttal to poor arguments.</p><p>At this point I need to ask, @elonmusk, what is the meaning of this?</p><p>Is this conversation not allowed on X/Twitter?</p><p>Kind of disappointing as I thought that free speech had returned to X/Twitter.</p><p>Apparently not.</p><p>Anyway, since X/Twitter will not allow me to make my case to them directly, I thought I'd post it here.</p><p>Very disappointed, Mr. Musk, very disappointed.</p><p><b>Related Posts:</b></p><p><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2017/12/circumcision-censorship-at-twitter.html">Circumcision Censorship at Twitter?</a></p><p><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2020/01/twitter-censoring-joseph4gi.html">Twitter Censoring Joseph4GI </a></p><p><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2020/02/the-state-of-affairs-for-joseph4gi.html">State of Affairs for Joseph4GI </a></p><p><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2020/06/twitter-bans-award-winning-circumcision.html">Twitter Bans Award-Winning Circumcision Documentary Filmmaker</a></p><p><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2022/05/it-looks-like-joseph4gi-is-back.html">Looks like @Joseph4GI is back</a> <br /></p>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-25544179602959703742023-12-09T18:08:00.000-08:002023-12-09T18:08:37.336-08:00Matt Walsh: The Accidental Intactivist<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB8BZze6qDI2l5e0iHLgszcgX2CtstoPIuWqDUd9TwJUcK4cp4xzuLt9Z0E_CrncRBuudSw-HIkY5xhgUgQ8crVS5uVLyS216nRQ1-MioC8r2FO0KkhOWzZOLHUoZ5XYIHk5C5H0EoSOFolImiovUVzPBC9Mpax74U1G2_G174WlR4VQhPLVWyC6uCGg/s1279/Matt%20Walsh%20the%20Unlikely.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="1279" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB8BZze6qDI2l5e0iHLgszcgX2CtstoPIuWqDUd9TwJUcK4cp4xzuLt9Z0E_CrncRBuudSw-HIkY5xhgUgQ8crVS5uVLyS216nRQ1-MioC8r2FO0KkhOWzZOLHUoZ5XYIHk5C5H0EoSOFolImiovUVzPBC9Mpax74U1G2_G174WlR4VQhPLVWyC6uCGg/w400-h225/Matt%20Walsh%20the%20Unlikely.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>This is my 2nd blog post on Matt Walsh. <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2022/06/matt-walsh-should-be-intactivist.html">In my first</a>, I talked about how, if people didn't know any better, they'd think he was an intactivist.</p><p>It's amazing to me how he is basically making every intactivist point, but still somehow manages to have a blind spot, either unwittingly or quite deliberately, in regards to male infant circumcision.</p><p>Right-wingers do this all the time; they go on and on about how they abhor child abuse and genital mutilation but then twist themselves into knots to insist male infant circumcision is <i>"different."</i></p><p>It's like they've got all of the logic that<i> should</i> allow them to arrive at the conclusion that male infant circumcision is genital mutilation and child abuse, but then refuse to make that leap. They struggle with cognitive dissonance, and somehow the belief that <i>"male infant circumcision is not mutilation"</i> is more important.</p><p>By their own definition, male infant circumcision should be wrong, and we should be calling for the practice to stop, but then they move the goal post and change the criteria of what constitutes <i>"mutilation"</i> in order to say that male infant circumcision is <i>"different."</i></p><p>I can only guess it's because they've got vested interest in continuing their double-think.</p><p>I'd bet a dime to a dollar Matt Walsh is circumcised and has gone on to circumcise his own male children, so he cannot allow himself to be guilty of his own critique of other procedures performed on healthy, non-consenting minors.</p><p>If he is intact and didn't do this to his own children I'd be extremely surprised. If this is the case, he may have other reasons for refusing to criticize male infant circumcision with the same scathe he reserves for double-mastectomy and castration in children, such as not wanting to upset Ben Shapiro, a co-worker of his at the Daily Wire, who's Jewish and has a religious conviction to defend the practice. Candace Owens apparently has managed to upset Ben Shapiro by criticizing the actions of the Israeli government in the on-going Israel/Hamas war, which has led Ben Shapiro actually telling Candace Owens she should quit. So *if* Matt Walsh is critical of male infant circumcision, not wanting to rock the boat at work may be a reason to conceal it.</p><p>I do believe it's the former, rather than the latter, however. More than likely Matt Walsh has to reconcile his criticism of what he calls "child genital mutilation" to what has happened to him as an infant, and what he may have allowed on his own male children.<br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Matt Destroys Chris Christie With Intactivist Points</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">So I recently saw the following video on YouTube, where Matt Walsh gives his commentary on the recent Republican debate:</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iWs0xu-OX-A?si=YjmLwPO35XmRmx7S" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> <br /></div><p><br /></p><p>Matt Walsh really goes after Chris Christie in this video, namely his response to Megyn Kelly's question to Christie, in which she asks why he doesn't support a legal ban on <i>"gender affirming care,"</i> reminding him that it involves castrating, sterilizing and removing healthy body parts from children who are too young to give consent.</p><p>Christie begins to respond by saying <i>"Republicans believe in less government, not more."</i> To which Matt responds by questioning Christie's logic, which seems to be that <i>"Less government is a universal principle that we should apply to every situation."</i></p><p> </p><p></p><blockquote> <i>"Should we have less government when it comes to <u>other forms of violence inflicted on the innocent</u>? Should there be less government involved in policing murder or rape? Would you call for a repeal on laws forbidding sexual assault on the basis that Republicans want less government, not more?" </i>~Matt Walsh to Chris Christie<i><br /></i></blockquote><i></i><p></p><p> </p><p>This scathing criticism from Matt Walsh comes as a surprise to me, because I was also under the impression that Republicans believed that <i>"Less government is a universal principle that we should apply to every situation."</i> It's nice to know this isn't the case. It is technically true that<i> "less government"</i> is not necessarily "no government." I mean, there should be law and order, otherwise intactivists have no hope of ever holding charlatan doctors who perform non-medical surgeries on healthy, non-consenting minors accountable.<br /></p><div style="text-align: left;">Matt Walsh really comes after Chris Christie's <i>"less government comment"</i> and he is relentless.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><blockquote>"[F]orget about laws here in the United States. You want American government involvement all over the world, suddenly your "less government" principle disappears when it comes time to defend Ukraine or some other foreign country that's irrelevant to most Americans. Our government is very involved in sending billions of dollars to Ukraine and yet you have no issue with that. So is that the principle the American government can be involved in protecting Ukrainian children, but not American children? Is that how the formula works in your thick skull? Or is the whole "less government" thing just a meaningless smoke screen that you deploy whenever you need to find a way to avoid engaging with an issue that you find politically inconvenient? Yes, I think we've figured it out now."</blockquote></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">This criticism also comes as a surprise, as I was under the impression that Republicans all collectively want American government involvement all over the world to be the World Police. I personally lived through both Bush presidents and our involvement in the Middle East. It is despicable to me that we went to war over <i>"weapons of mass destruction"</i> that never materialized. Every last Republican I know defended the actions of George W. Bush and his father. Every last Republican I know was in favor of <i>"getting the terrorists back for 9/11."</i> So this idea that Republicans DON'T want American troops in Ukraine or elsewhere is new and surprising to me. The tables seem to have turned; the GOP is now the party of <i>"no war,"</i> and now the Democrats are the party of <i>"stay the course."</i> Matt is right; it's hypocritical to be <i>"less government"</i> while at the same time supporting more American government abroad.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">But Matt's pounce on Chris Christie's <i>"less government"</i> comment was nothing compared to what came next. In an attempt at a one-two punch strategy, Chris Christie cited <i>"less government," </i>followed by the <i>"parental rights"</i> argument, and Matt Walsh responds in the most intactivist way possible, you would think he was already one of us.</div><p><i>"I trust parents,"</i> Chris Christie told Megyn Kelly.</p><div style="text-align: left;"> And Matt responded: </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p><i></i></p><blockquote><i>"What do you mean you 'trust parents?' that's like saying 'I trust uncles' or 'I trust cousins.' 'I trust step sisters.' It doesn't make any sense. <u>Obviously we don't have complete blind absolute trust in any group of people just based on their biological relationship to other groups of people</u>."</i></blockquote><p></p><p> </p><p>I am impressed with this logical take-down. Matt Walsh is absolutely right. I have always argued through this entire blog that not everything you do with your children is justifiable merely because you are the parent. <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2012/12/religious-freedom-and-parental-choice.html">Parental rights are not absolute</a>. If they were, there'd be no need for child protective services. <br /></p><p>But it gets better. Matt continues:<br /></p><p> </p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><i>"The trust we have in anyone is conditional just as our rights are conditional. You can lose trust and you can lose rights. That's what going to prison is all about, and <u>one way to lose both of those things as a parent is to physically abuse your child</u>. As Ron DeSantis pointed out at the debate, making a statement that should never have needed to be said at a presidential debate, <b><u>parents don't have the right to abuse their kids</u>. <u>If you treat your kid that way, you lose trust and you lose rights</u></b>. Everybody understands this basic concept and agrees with it. The only question is whether sterilizing, castrating and removing body parts from a child counts as abuse, but that's not a question at all. In fact, if that doesn't qualify as abuse, then nothing qualifies. <u><b>If it's not abusive to have your child's body mutilated, then what the hell is abusive?</b></u> What fits the bill if that doesn't? There is no gray area here and Chris Christie knows that.</i></blockquote><br /><p></p><p>Bravo, Matt.</p><p> </p><p>Bra, vo. <br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKCrUuru9irvlam6cnQza6PZ8e80tbc3PeA9BTg4M-NG__PPafVVwb9pHY3lbmmhxImayS3nHo5QUjtKae-etO0pyrP6t-Xz5x3H1rVE1PCEBzfwBaevk7_yYJmjay5wgjhMtHwiWQhyphenhyphentpIPiF5fVbX75SzjMCV9ETV8YN-ikZT7VjtgAu3AcVhUklzQ/s220/18ae86fcb295c6d30028dedf7a946970.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="220" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKCrUuru9irvlam6cnQza6PZ8e80tbc3PeA9BTg4M-NG__PPafVVwb9pHY3lbmmhxImayS3nHo5QUjtKae-etO0pyrP6t-Xz5x3H1rVE1PCEBzfwBaevk7_yYJmjay5wgjhMtHwiWQhyphenhyphentpIPiF5fVbX75SzjMCV9ETV8YN-ikZT7VjtgAu3AcVhUklzQ/s1600/18ae86fcb295c6d30028dedf7a946970.gif" width="220" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p></p><p>Everything he says is, of course, spot on. I'd like to take Matt's words and apply them to intactivism:</p><p><br /></p><p></p><blockquote> <b>"<i>The only question is whether slicing part of a child's penis off counts as abuse, but that's not a question at
all. In fact, if that doesn't qualify as abuse, then nothing qualifies. <u><b>If it's not abusive to have your child's body mutilated, then what the hell is abusive?</b></u> What fits the bill if that doesn't? There is no gray area here.</i><i>" </i></b></blockquote><b><i></i><i></i></b><p></p><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p>It really is this simple. If only Matt Walsh could stick with this logic, and carry it through, he would oppose male infant circumcision and call for it to end in rallies as he does with child transition. But,
of course, I'm sure Matt has found away to reconcile his cognitive
dissonance and define the forced genital cutting of baby boys in such a
way that he, in his own words used in the past, is <i>"rescued."</i></p><p>He'll call it a <i>"little piece of skin,"</i> minimize the complications and latch onto <i>"medical benefits," </i>though he himself doesn't think "minimal complications" justifies operations to destroy normal, healthy body parts otherwise. I'm very sure he would oppose the removal of the same amount of skin in baby girls, no matter how <i>"beneficial,"</i> and<i> "minimal complications"</i> would be immaterial to him.</p><p><br /></p><p>To quote him again:</p><p> </p><p></p><blockquote><i>"The
primary complication of cutting off a woman's healthy breasts is that,
*you've cut off a woman's healthy breasts.* The complication is that
you've removed a piece of her body, a piece of her, and you've done it
on the theory that it will help her be a man, even though, she could
never be a man, and chopping off her breasts will bring her no closer to
manhood, than she was when she still had them. <br /><br />The fact that
there are, allegedly "only," "additional complications in 12% of cases"
does not rescue you from this fact, it's the surgery itself that's the
problem. Even if everything goes "perfectly well" when you're cutting
the breasts off of a woman, you're still cutting her breasts off, and
that's the issue. You are removing healthy body parts, and often you're
doing this to young girls who would not even be allowed to legally get
tattoos, because they've been judged "too young" for it."</i></blockquote><p><b><i></i></b></p><p> (YouTube of this is available <a href="https://youtu.be/8D0QlBzEerE?si=6G4BwmHnkkgbJLz9">here</a>.)<br /></p><p> </p><p>Matthew, the
primary complication of cutting off a baby boy's healthy foreskin is that,
*you've cut off a baby boy's healthy foreskin.* The complication is that
you've removed a piece of his body, a piece of him, and you've done it
on the theory that it prevents diseases and makes him "cleaner," even though, lacking a foreskin can never immunize a boy against any diseases, and even if you chop off his foreskin he'll still need to wash with soap and water to keep clean.<br /><br />The fact that
there are, allegedly <i>"only complications in 2% of cases"
</i>does not rescue you from this fact, it's the surgery itself that's the
problem. Even if everything goes <i>"perfectly well"</i> when you're cutting
the foreskin off of a boy, you're still cutting his foreskin off, and
that's the issue. You are removing healthy body parts, and often you're
doing this to young boys who would not even be allowed to legally get
tattoos, because they've been judged "too young" for it.</p><p>I've already talked about the foreskin, its circumcision and risks and complications in <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2023/11/male-infant-circumcision-has-no-basis.html">many</a>, other <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2023/12/male-infant-circumcision-is-genital.html">posts</a>, so I'm not going to do that here. <br /></p><p>It would be nice to see Matt Walsh stick to his own logic, carry it through and oppose the genital mutilation of infant baby boys at birth.</p><p><b>Mission Statement</b><br />
The foreskin is not a birth defect. Neither is it a congenital
deformity or genetic anomaly akin to a 6th finger or a cleft. Neither is
it a medical condition like a ruptured appendix or diseased gall
bladder. Neither is it a dead part of the body, like the umbilical
cord, hair, or fingernails.<br />
<br />
The foreskin is not "extra skin." The foreskin is normal, natural,
healthy, functioning tissue, present in all males at birth; it is as
intrinsic to male genitalia as labia are to female genitalia.<br />
<br />
Unless there is a medical or clinical indication, the circumcision of a
healthy, non-consenting individuals is a deliberate wound; it is the
destruction of normal, healthy tissue, the permanent disfigurement
of normal, healthy organs, and by very definition, infant genital
mutilation, and a violation of the most basic of human rights.<br />
<br />
Without medical or clinical indication, doctors have absolutely no
business performing surgery in healthy, non-consenting individuals, much
less be eliciting any kind of "decision" from parents.<br />
<br />
In any other case, reaping profit from non-medical procedures on non-consenting individuals constitutes medical fraud.<br />
<br />
Genital integrity, autonomy and self-determination are inalienable
human rights. I am against the forced circumcision of healthy,
non-consenting minors because it violates these rights.<br />
<br />
<br />
</p><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>Genital mutilation, whether it be wrapped in culture, religion or “research” is still genital mutilation.</b><br />
<br />
<b>It is mistaken, the belief that the right amount of “science” can be
used to legitimize the deliberate violation of basic human rights.</b></blockquote>
<br />
<b>DISCLAIMER: </b><br />
I speak out against the forced circumcision of healthy, non-consenting
minors in any way, shape or form. I make no exception for "religion" nor
"cultural practice" of any kind. Please do not conflate my disdain for
the forced circumcision of minors with a belittlement of circumcised
men, or a hate for Jews.<br />
<br />
The views I express in this blog are my own
individual opinion, and they do not necessarily reflect the views of all
intactivists. I am but an individual with one opinion, and I do not
pretend to speak for the intactivist movement as a whole, thank you.<p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Related Links:<span> </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2022/06/matt-walsh-should-be-intactivist.html">Matt Walsh Should Be an Intactivist</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2012/12/religious-freedom-and-parental-choice.html">"Religious Freedom" and "Parental Choice" Not Absolute: Yet Another <span style="font-family: times;">Example </span></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2023/11/male-infant-circumcision-has-no-basis.html">Male Infant Circumcision Has No Basis in Modern Medicine</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/09/repost-of-ecstasy-and-rape-surgery-and.html">REPOST: Of Ecstasy and Rape, Surgery and Mutilation</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2023/12/male-infant-circumcision-is-genital.html">Male Infant Circumcision is Genital Mutilation</a></span></span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> <br /></span></div></span></div>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-27373379643630306842023-12-03T07:46:00.000-08:002023-12-03T07:46:37.925-08:00Male Infant Circumcision is Genital Mutilation<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-bLtM6PEUME-_Ut5QHsJCUGVCefFwF_WsBqCK1Dil8upB1iYXgKgal-iAKyheMGGyHSlp1tyTG2kB57aByTlNvjSAjMJWdqU7t9x49KVOsMv4Zti__cKF5R7ej_GLZkrK-8VJQ_-kLcpnSlIwFhlZCiBDr3m3E09e_5KXZtIAZrLRYFQtrBe5egj49A/s1600/dictionary.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="1600" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-bLtM6PEUME-_Ut5QHsJCUGVCefFwF_WsBqCK1Dil8upB1iYXgKgal-iAKyheMGGyHSlp1tyTG2kB57aByTlNvjSAjMJWdqU7t9x49KVOsMv4Zti__cKF5R7ej_GLZkrK-8VJQ_-kLcpnSlIwFhlZCiBDr3m3E09e_5KXZtIAZrLRYFQtrBe5egj49A/w400-h309/dictionary.webp" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>I've posted on the definition of "mutilation" and why male infant circumcision fits it <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/09/repost-of-ecstasy-and-rape-surgery-and.html">in the past</a>, but yet another opportunity has presented itself in my Twitter feed and I thought I'd seize it.</p><p>It happened like this. I was scrolling through my Twitter/X feed, and I ran across this post: (Picture below in case this gets deleted.)</p><p> </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">If your religion makes you cut any body parts off your baby, your religion is evil, your god is evil, or your interpretation of your religious text is evil.<br /><br />You become evil by not questioning such an obviously sick and disturbing practice.<br /><br />🤡 “But we’ve always done it this way,…</p>— Dr. Melissa Sell (@drmelissasell) <a href="https://twitter.com/drmelissasell/status/1731092777918931108?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2023</a></blockquote><p> </p><p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZGqKizv955edWmZLf6ZhMGn1ShlmNEoCsvn2msJI1CpI3_KbK2TMaV7VRvYWeSaHmR0nC1uSApvEZvmiFU4aE3TsXUAdTgNi8nTfkFXTqIS1W8PxNkm1dkigntWcq7JWomscoPlaC4RexKRrulSAw8zFjmzVHksTiPCafnP6JOxR1rB1bdSC-sjdC9Q/s583/Dr%20Melissa%20Sell.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="583" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZGqKizv955edWmZLf6ZhMGn1ShlmNEoCsvn2msJI1CpI3_KbK2TMaV7VRvYWeSaHmR0nC1uSApvEZvmiFU4aE3TsXUAdTgNi8nTfkFXTqIS1W8PxNkm1dkigntWcq7JWomscoPlaC4RexKRrulSAw8zFjmzVHksTiPCafnP6JOxR1rB1bdSC-sjdC9Q/w400-h291/Dr%20Melissa%20Sell.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>When I see a post like this, my immediate reaction is to check the comments to see what people are saying. Shocking, I know.</p><p>It's always very interesting for me to see the logical fallacies and double-standards defendants of male infant circumcision use to try and defend the practice. Typically they'll cite <i>"culture/religion/tradition,"</i> and <i>“parental choice,”</i> but if it's about anything else, such as some of the practices mentioned on this post, <i>“culture/religion/tradition”</i> and/or <i>“parental choice”</i> leave the chat.</p><p>The following reply caught my eye, because it touched on one of the hinges of the arguments against male infant circumcision; the definition of what is <i>"mutilation."</i> (Again, picture pasted below in case the tweet is deleted.)</p><p><br /></p><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Ma'am, we could get into the how do you determine your morality and why you designate circumcision evil etc, but instead I'll lay out my case & see what you think:<br /><br />My argument is circumcision is not mutilation. <br /><br />Legal definition:<br /><br />"Mutilation means the intentional infliction of…</p>— ArchPhantom94 (@ArchPhantom94) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArchPhantom94/status/1731122441009664298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFGsLPqpC9LWinImDoH-jmupLt4UCMprIq3q4G9WLXMwKUksSFqPF6Bp1tCd-yEK4qEby-bty-dqvxGvnroSKxkOZv8llpLqoPo-UWEK9bJZ7_nJ0guFJdZA5DF17UXDzC5uynq9wWX818kPBkXLkKPUclMaIIJvIY5tL3ebFw936K2N2Gql1bAaZl_g/s684/ArchPhantom%2094.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="684" data-original-width="592" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFGsLPqpC9LWinImDoH-jmupLt4UCMprIq3q4G9WLXMwKUksSFqPF6Bp1tCd-yEK4qEby-bty-dqvxGvnroSKxkOZv8llpLqoPo-UWEK9bJZ7_nJ0guFJdZA5DF17UXDzC5uynq9wWX818kPBkXLkKPUclMaIIJvIY5tL3ebFw936K2N2Gql1bAaZl_g/w346-h400/ArchPhantom%2094.png" width="346" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>ArchPhantom94's opening paragraph is interesting. I'd like to know what s/he thinks about female genital cutting, whether or not s/he believes it's "evil" and how s/he managed to arrive at that conclusion.</p><p>If I'm understanding ArchPhantom94 correctly, s/he seems to be claiming moral superiority over Dr. Melissa Sell. If we are to believe Dr. Melissa Sell is a real doctor, which I don’t know if anyone who calls themselves “doctor” on Twitter/X ever actually is, then we can only assume that she determines her morality and designates procedures as “evil” or not, based on medicine, science and research. At least she is supposed to be, because she would be a doctor and doctors deal in medicine, not religion or superstitious nonsense.</p><p>If a procedure is medically indicated, then it's right and good. And if it is not, then not only is it wrong and evil, it's simply medical fraud, as doctors should not be reaping profit from non-medical procedures on healthy, non-consenting minors.</p><p style="text-align: left;">As a doctor, one of Dr. Melissa Sell’s guiding principles should be the first dictum of medicine which is the Hippocratic Oath: "First Do No Harm."<br /><br /><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Primum non nocere"</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"First do no harm"</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">~The Hippocratic Oath </div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /><br /><br />After challenging Dr. Melissa Sell's morality, excusing him/herself from addressing his/her own, ArchPhantom94 presents the following challenge:</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p></p><blockquote><i>"My argument is circumcision is not mutilation... Looking forward to your refutation, ma'am."</i></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>OK, ArchPhantom94, I'll bite.<br /><br />In this post I'm going to take ArchPhantom94's post and tear it limb from limb.</p><p><br /></p><p>Firstly, s/he writes:</p><p><br /></p><p><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"></span></p><blockquote><i>Legal definition:
"Mutilation means the <u>intentional infliction of physical abuse designed to cause serious permanent disfigurement or permanent or protracted loss or impairment of the functions of any bodily member or organ</u>, where the offender relishes the infliction of the abuse, evidencing debasement or perversion."</i></blockquote><p></p><p><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"> </span></p><p><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">I'm not sure what law book ArchPhantom94 is copying and pasting from, but it does not sit well in his/her favor. As I have demonstrated in <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2023/11/male-infant-circumcision-has-no-basis.html">my last post</a>, male infant circumcision was medicalized and promoted for the express purpose of diminishing male sexuality.</span></p><p><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4dvJlL_Pf7PmmOdMAP9Lux63cfMkBkchkFXLovskobohmMKGhB0uSnxJn1h8l-nOQUp7-rLKxg8vuvHzQH3hdmkmv8ASR3oeNk3e_WIerooBDSl2_67OCiR3WkdcBBze_uIW-f4qpK9F3IOy1gILM7fITOoEs4Sw4BZzGsHbPwaJB5QahrgMLJ7uS4Q/s990/IMG_1882.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="990" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4dvJlL_Pf7PmmOdMAP9Lux63cfMkBkchkFXLovskobohmMKGhB0uSnxJn1h8l-nOQUp7-rLKxg8vuvHzQH3hdmkmv8ASR3oeNk3e_WIerooBDSl2_67OCiR3WkdcBBze_uIW-f4qpK9F3IOy1gILM7fITOoEs4Sw4BZzGsHbPwaJB5QahrgMLJ7uS4Q/w400-h297/IMG_1882.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">Examination of medical literature reveals that s</span>cientists and researchers were pre-occupied with the control of male sexuality, namely, the diminishing of male pleasure. The research shows that they were well-aware that the foreskin provided sensual pleasure, and that circumcision decreased it.</p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></p><blockquote><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;">"Finally, circumcision probably tends to increase the power of </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">sexual control</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;">. <u>The only physiological advantages which the prepuce can be supposed to confer is that of maintaining the penis in a condition susceptible to more acute sensation than would otherwise exist</u>. It may <u>increase the pleasure of coition and the impulse to it: but these are advantages which in the present state of society can well be spared</u>. If in their loss, increase in </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">sexual control</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;"> should result, one should be thankful."</span><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s4" style="font-weight: bold;">Editor, Medical News. (A Plea for Circumcision) Medical News, vol. 77 (1900): pp. 707-708.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s3"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;">"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 </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">dull the sensitivity of that exquisitely sensitive structure and thereby diminishes sexual appetite and the pleasurable effects of coitus</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;">. Granted that this be true, my answer is that, whatever may have been the case in days gone by, <u>sensuality in our time</u> needs neither whip nor spur, <u>but</u> would be all the better for a little <u>more</u> judicious use of <u>curb and bearing-rein</u>."</span><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s4" style="font-weight: bold;">E. Harding Freeland, Circumcision as a Preventive of Syphilis and Other Disorders, The Lancet, vol. 2 (29 Dec. 1900): pp. 1869-1871.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s3"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;">"Another <u>advantage of circumcision</u> ... is the </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">lessened liability to masturbation</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;">. 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, </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">pleasurable sensations</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;"> are elicited from the </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">extremely sensitive mucous membrane</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;">, with resultant manipulation and masturbation. The exposure of the glans penis following circumcision ... </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">lessens the sensitiveness of the organ</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;"> ... It therefore lies with the physician, the family adviser in affairs hygienic and medical, to urge its acceptance." </span><span class="s4" style="font-weight: bold;">Ernest G. Mark, Circumcision, American Practitioner and News, vol. 31 (1901): pp. 121-126.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s3"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;">"Circumcision not only <u>reduces</u> the irritability of the child's penis, but also the so-called </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">passion</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;"> of which so many married men are so extremely proud, to the detriment of their wives and their married life. Many youthful </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">rapes</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;"> could be prevented, many </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">separations</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;">, and </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">divorces</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;"> also, and many an </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">unhappy marriage</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;"> <u>improved</u> if this unnatural passion was <u>cut down by a timely circumcision</u>." </span><span class="s4" style="font-weight: bold;">L. W. Wuesthoff, Benefits of Circumcision, Medical World, vol. 33 (1915): p. 434.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s3"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;">"The prepuce is one of the great factors in </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">causing masturbation in boys</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;">. Here is the dilemma we are in: If we do not teach the growing boy to pull the prepuce back and cleanse the glans there is the danger of smegma collecting and of adhesions and ulcerations forming, which in their turn will cause irritation likely to <u>lead to masturbation</u>. If we do teach the boy to pull the prepuce back and cleanse his glans, that </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">handling alone is sufficient gradually and almost without the boy's knowledge to initiate him into the habit of masturbation</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;"> ... </span><span class="s1"><i><u>Therefore, off with the prepuce</u></i></span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;">!" </span><span class="s4" style="font-weight: bold;">William J. Robinson, Circumcision and Masturbation, Medical World, vol. 33 (1915): p. 390.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s3"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;">"</span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">Phimosis</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;"> may be a predisposing cause of </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">masturbation</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;"> in some cases ... </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">Hemorrhage following circumcision at birth cannot be considered seriously as a contraindication. Meatal ulcer due to ammoniacal diapers in the circumcised is not a contraindication ... Routine circumcision at birth is warranted.</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;">"</span><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s4" style="font-weight: bold;">Editor, Routine Circumcision at Birth?, Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 91 (1928): p. 201.</span><span class="s3"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s3"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;">"I suggest that all male children should be circumcised. This is 'against nature', but that is exactly the reason why it should be done. </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">Nature intends that the adolescent male shall copulate as often and as promiscuously as possible, and to that end covers the sensitive glans so that it shall be ever ready to receive stimuli.</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">Civilization, on the contrary, requires chastity</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;">, and the </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">glans of the circumcised rapidly assumes a leathery texture less sensitive than skin</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;">. Thus the adolescent has his attention drawn to his penis much less often. </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">I am convinced that masturbation is much less common in the circumcised.</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;"> With these considerations in view it does not seem apt to argue that 'God knows best how to make little boys.'"</span><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s4" style="font-weight: bold;">R. W. Cockshut, Circumcision, British Medical Journal, vol. 2 (1935): 764.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s3"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;">"[Routine Circumcision] does not necessitate handling of the penis by the child himself and therefore does not focus the </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">male's attention on his own genitals. Masturbation is considered less likely.</span><span class="s1" style="font-style: italic;">" </span><span class="s4" style="font-weight: bold;">Alan F. Guttmacher, Should the Baby Be Circumcised?, Parents Magazine, vol. 16 (1941): pp. 26, 76-78.</span></span></p></blockquote><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s4" style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">The evidence is clear; d</span><span style="font-family: times;">esensitization, curtailing male sexuality, stopping boys and masturbating and experiencing pleasure weren’t mere potential side-effects of the practice of male infant circumcision, they </span><span style="font-family: times;">were the whole point, the very intention, the very premise, the very basis of why boys were supposed to be circumcised. <i>“I</i></span><i>ntentional infliction of physical abuse designed to cause serious permanent disfigurement or permanent or protracted loss or impairment of the functions”</i> was the intended purpose. </p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That’s one down for ArchPhantom94.</p><p>On to ArchPhantom94’s next point:</p><p><br /></p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><i>Dictionary definition: "severe damage to somebody's body, especially when part of it is cut or torn off; the act of causing such damage"</i></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>ArchPhantom94 wants to pull out the dictionary to show us that male infant circumcision isn’t <i>“genital mutilation,” </i>but this definition simply fails to support his point. I’m not sure what dictionary he’s using, but <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/09/repost-of-ecstasy-and-rape-surgery-and.html">in a past post</a>, I <span style="font-family: times;">use <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">the online </span><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mutilation" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Merriam-Webster</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"> dictionary, which defines the word "mutilation" as thus:</span></span></p><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><div class="sblk"><div class="scnt"><i><span style="font-family: times;">1<span class="ssens"><b>:</b> to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect (e.g. <span class="vi">the child <i>mutilated</i> the book with his scissors)</span></span></span></i></div><div class="scnt"><i><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></i></div></div><div class="scnt"><i><span style="font-family: times;">2<span class="ssens"><b>:</b> to cut off or permanently destroy a limb or essential part of ; cripple</span></span></i></div></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>I'm going demonstrate how male infant circumcision is genital mutilation by all definitions.</p><div class="scnt">
From the definitions the online <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mutilation">Merriam-Webster</a> dictionary gives us,<span class="ssens"> it is the first definition,</span></div><div class="scnt"><span class="ssens"> </span></div>
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<div class="scnt">
<span class="ssens"> </span><i>1<span class="ssens"><b>:</b> to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect (e.g. <span class="vi">the child <i>mutilated</i> the book with his scissors)</span></span></i></div>
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<div class="scnt">
<span class="ssens"> </span></div><div class="scnt"><span class="ssens">that applies to male infant circumcision the most, because it is <i>"cutting up"</i> or <i>"altering radically so as to make</i> [them] <i>imperfect." </i> </span></div>
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Circumcision advocates often try to dismiss the notion that male circumcision is "mutilation" using definition 2, <i> </i><br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>2<span class="ssens"><b>:</b> to cut off or permanently destroy a limb or essential part of ; cripple</span></i></blockquote><p> </p><p>
<i>"because the foreskin is not a limb or an essential part of"</i> a person. While this may be true, I'd have to say that if by this definition male circumcision isn't <i>"mutilation,"</i> then female circumcision isn't <i>"mutilation"</i> either. I don't think ArchPhantom94 is ready to concede this point.</p><p>In his original paragraph, ArchPhantom94 asks<i> "<span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">How do you determine your morality and why you designate circumcision evil?"</span></i> Here, the question is, how does ArchPhantom94 or any other circumcision advocate determine what is <i>"essential?" </i>When was it decided that the clitoris and/or labia were <i>"essential"</i> and that the foreskin is not?<br /></p><p>But here, I think talking about what is <i>"essential"</i> or not is misleading. <i>“What is essential"</i> is not the metric by which doctors decide to remove body parts. There are <a href="https://www.insider.com/organs-you-can-live-without-2019-2">a number of parts of the human body</a> that aren't <i>"essential" </i>including the spleen, gall bladder and appendix. The clitoris and the labia aren't <i>"essential"</i> either.</p><p>The metric any and all doctors must go by when it comes to surgical removal is medical indication. Let us come back to the first dictum of medicine,the Hippocratic Oath: <br /><br /><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Primum non nocere"</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"First do no harm"</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">~The Hippocratic Oath </div><p> </p><p> </p><p>To address ArchPhantom94’s dictionary definition:</p><p><br /></p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><i>"severe damage to somebody's body, especially when part of
it is cut or torn off; the act of causing such damage"</i></blockquote><p></p><p> </p><p>One must wonder if ArchPhantom94 actually knows what a circumcision is. <span style="font-family: times;">Just so we're clear on what we're
talking about, male infant circumcision is a euphemism for the surgical
amputation of the hood of flesh that covers the glans or head of the
penis, otherwise known as the foreskin. The foreskin is normal, healthy
tissue that, with rare exception, is present in all baby boys at birth.
Male infant circumcision is performed on healthy, non-consenting minors
with no medical or clinical indication.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7hwSVL2vhXBfNZQYhOZV9XPEaX9OpjuLbPP4016e2Gcl-5eBRn2cP7X5zWxv4nxaeYHokY5dhurUGjMxGOQT9sPA7IA8at-WgUZRTGfMEQ6dyqFZXeSDk7BCHm7U_wNDU9Gsnzdtf_mZubXCntGLKGdxvaR4_AziaX4bkZhim_VV_KoziAo_IIyfRww/s231/IMG_5018.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="231" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7hwSVL2vhXBfNZQYhOZV9XPEaX9OpjuLbPP4016e2Gcl-5eBRn2cP7X5zWxv4nxaeYHokY5dhurUGjMxGOQT9sPA7IA8at-WgUZRTGfMEQ6dyqFZXeSDk7BCHm7U_wNDU9Gsnzdtf_mZubXCntGLKGdxvaR4_AziaX4bkZhim_VV_KoziAo_IIyfRww/s1600/IMG_5018.jpeg" width="231" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">The risks include <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7594234/">infection</a>, <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2015/04/mogen-circumcision-clamp-manufacturers.html">partial</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer">full ablation</a> of the penis<span>, a botched procedure with permanent misshaping, hemorrhage, sepsis </span>and even <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2022/03/circumcision-death-13yo-bleeds-to-death.html">death</a><span>. Circumcision botches are so common, there are actually <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/05/circumcision-botches-and-elephant-in.html">doctors that specialize in revising other doctors' mistakes</a>.
The long term effects of circumcision, even when the operation is
carried out <i>"successfully"</i> are drying out of the mucosal tissue on and
around the glans or head of the penis, necessity for artificial
lubrication, loss of nerves, keratinization and desensitization over
time. <br /></span></span></div><p>If we take the foreskin to be<span style="font-family: times;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"> the normal, natural, healthy, functioning tissue found in all males that it is, then its forcible amputation fits the definition of</span></span> <i>"severe damage to somebody's body, especially when part of
it is cut or torn off."</i> Male infant circumcision is literally cutting off part of a child's penis.</p><p>For perspective, here is the freshly severed foreskin off of a healthy newborn, compared side by side with the tip of the clitoris of a baby girl. (Readers should be aware that infant female circumcision is performed in South East Asian countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Singapore, often referred to as "sunat." See links at the bottom of this post.)</p><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQE24vqm6eGgYc-CURILbk7NHOY1I9mtK8zTLrztF7DzlnHAeAqEUEa_Tx6T3AhKMlIGSZ0_g3TY-MoOcl15c3I0QV4ciGsKSlUeIeCbv71WHwG3r7L1virnPJhFeLLow5-iqTDqipT6kBpI_AyMa8GhZ5-xjCaW2Xp5bedZYOpp-OOptKwtN0t-reYA/s819/Light%20of%20my%20love%20-%20slit%20clitoris%20-%20sunat.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtdVzfS1Fzo1G8eGH_cT96h3q_JHdL1lCwZWe6TRKHV2GBrn_6Z8EIWoqNYyW69AWhG_VIhVqUP2jXXiHZdWb6lNVQWaNkti5h1d_7tiilSt6pzw-9F3QMEr432_iNEnzz0Jyb__mKLdYAh2gUsAEj8mYhXkngTuiT5X9hF6hQLMS8S4WLXzXckqWVZA/s655/IMG_1813.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="655" data-original-width="621" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtdVzfS1Fzo1G8eGH_cT96h3q_JHdL1lCwZWe6TRKHV2GBrn_6Z8EIWoqNYyW69AWhG_VIhVqUP2jXXiHZdWb6lNVQWaNkti5h1d_7tiilSt6pzw-9F3QMEr432_iNEnzz0Jyb__mKLdYAh2gUsAEj8mYhXkngTuiT5X9hF6hQLMS8S4WLXzXckqWVZA/w189-h200/IMG_1813.jpeg" width="189" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="819" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQE24vqm6eGgYc-CURILbk7NHOY1I9mtK8zTLrztF7DzlnHAeAqEUEa_Tx6T3AhKMlIGSZ0_g3TY-MoOcl15c3I0QV4ciGsKSlUeIeCbv71WHwG3r7L1virnPJhFeLLow5-iqTDqipT6kBpI_AyMa8GhZ5-xjCaW2Xp5bedZYOpp-OOptKwtN0t-reYA/w200-h150/Light%20of%20my%20love%20-%20slit%20clitoris%20-%20sunat.jpg" width="200" /></div></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">To the left is the severed foreskin of a newborn baby boy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">To the right is the severed tip of the clitoris of a baby girl</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">which you can barely see on the silver pair of scissors.</span><br /></div><p>Circumcision advocates would like others to believe that circumcision removes <i>"a little bit of skin."</i> I hope readers can see that the description is misleading. This is no <i>"little bit of skin"</i> but a chunk of flesh. It is the speck on the silver scissors above that is considered <i>"mutilation"</i> by ArchPhantom94 et al.</p><p>The last point ArchPhantom94 says on his Twitter/X post is:</p><p><br /></p><p></p><blockquote><i>"Deprivation" is the operative word and element when it comes to
mutilation.
Circumcision does not fall under the above, nor under "mutilation"
because it does not deprive the male of his natural functions.</i></blockquote><p></p><p> </p><p>Here ArchPhantom94 is changing the argument. "Deprivation" is NOT the operative word and element when it comes to mutilation, and we'll come back to this point in just a moment. Before I do that, I'd like to address ArchPhantom94's assertion that <i>"does not deprive the male of his natural functions"</i></p><p>Here he is changing the goal post at the last minute. The legal definition he gives is <i>"the intentional infliction of physical abuse designed to cause
serious permanent disfigurement or permanent or protracted loss or
impairment of the functions of any bodily member or organ," </i>and the dictionary definition he gives is <i>"severe damage to somebody's body, especially when part of it is cut or torn off."</i> These aren’t quite the same thing as <i>"deprivation of natural functions."</i> This would mean that ArchPhantom94 is implying that <i>"intentional infliction of physical abuse"</i> and <i>"severely damaging somebody's body especially when part of it is cut or torn off"</i> is acceptable so long as these actions don't <i>"deprive someone of his/her natural functions,"</i> and I don't think ArchPhantom94 actually means to make this assertion. If so, then this would justify most female genital cutting. After all, a woman can still ovulate, menstruate, become pregnant and birth children without her labia or clitoris.</p><p>No, ArchPhantom94, as all male infant circumcision advocates do, ties himself in knots attempting the mental gymnastics of defining <i>"mutilation"</i> in such a way that excludes male infant circumcision. There are two things that are missing from this equation; one, the fact that the foreskin is an intrinsic part of the penis that has value, and two the issue of consent.</p><div style="text-align: left;"><b>What is the foreskin?</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">To understand how circumcision is <i>“severe damage” </i>and <i>“permanent disfigurement”</i> that <i>“deprives”</i> a healthy, non-consenting minor of function, it is important to understand what the foreskin even is. The foreskin is normal, healthy tissue that, with rare exception, is present in all baby boys at birth. The foreskin is a hood of skin that covers the head of the penis, akin to the eyelids which cover the eyeballs. The surface of the glans, or head of the penis, and the inside of the foreskin is not normal skin, like the skin on the arms, hands, legs and feet; these surfaces are mucous membrane, such as on the inside of the mouth, the inside of the vagina. The foreskin keeps the glans and surrounding mucous membrane moist and supple, facilitating sexual intercourse and masturbation.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEida38rbX5haXF1Y00CJsSsdtYtZ7XR6VJblcnp2hZegJ0tI7SMXhnFVfS6BbntJ-Mg_T1-i6ziGt8tKho4p45-QzaD0QC62egi-7E3jEBO3GYQg4Uf03D28mMnehdCk3vtYtVAf37aUovlJPjNLfOzbDieKTRyKOCNFWbb6CiL4GeM5BZbpId4uvMVSw/s1350/IMG_1635.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="894" data-original-width="1350" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEida38rbX5haXF1Y00CJsSsdtYtZ7XR6VJblcnp2hZegJ0tI7SMXhnFVfS6BbntJ-Mg_T1-i6ziGt8tKho4p45-QzaD0QC62egi-7E3jEBO3GYQg4Uf03D28mMnehdCk3vtYtVAf37aUovlJPjNLfOzbDieKTRyKOCNFWbb6CiL4GeM5BZbpId4uvMVSw/w400-h265/IMG_1635.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">The foreskin is laden in specialized
nerve endings called "Meissners corpuscles," which make it sensitive to light touch and pleasure. Research mapping out sensation on different parts of the penis shows that the most sensitive part of the penis is found on the foreskin.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> It is these functions that advocates of male infant circumcision in the Victorian era (see medical literature citations above), sought to eliminate through circumcision, and research shows that this is precisely what it does.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTioIf9LIsNbsuWbI0W5dX9y_3Ka3D-H1hJdNLNOYef4HWYMDXa7DyiMMAI08uOTQjrsZZuo_nlGdx6HhR2eh0RuqOWXYfrpGO5v-G0VNHdVmVoWQHeVVi0iZtMvA0IVhlvynDA_c2Ouv32Dlg2i9Y7Xe3WJZ-Xujnwu_daviI5fNSar8QGsf7KcWwFg/s770/IMG_1568.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="770" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTioIf9LIsNbsuWbI0W5dX9y_3Ka3D-H1hJdNLNOYef4HWYMDXa7DyiMMAI08uOTQjrsZZuo_nlGdx6HhR2eh0RuqOWXYfrpGO5v-G0VNHdVmVoWQHeVVi0iZtMvA0IVhlvynDA_c2Ouv32Dlg2i9Y7Xe3WJZ-Xujnwu_daviI5fNSar8QGsf7KcWwFg/w400-h206/IMG_1568.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Circumcision dries out the glans and surrounding mucosa, necessitating the use of artificial lubrication for sexual intercourse and masturbation. The head of the penis was not designed to be permanently exposed to external environments such as dry air and the constant abrasion of clothing. To make up for the loss of foreskin, the head of the circumcised penis and surrounding mucosa builds layers of dead skin in a process called <i>"keratinization." </i>In addition to the loss of thousands of Meissner's corpuscles found in the foreskin, keratinization adds to decrease sensation over time. Over time, men may take more stimulation to achieve orgasm, and may eventually lead to erectile disfunction, necessitating the need for drugs like Viagra.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt4F-2PuecPj_ivgnHBTb9-X2tlNUyd4HAFTNgGXob_t8R9m9J39MqDHeXFiSymNgnqzjYi40UrZO2t4uJyArI9CUNh-mIhr4ZbQk7YBGun13-zHRqVNjfAfIev4TPkWNcbUa6hl1SWHaC_wZhFSyDIKq4YutB5eOCk6kXFu1oM0uz4_W4AllJl9hP8w/s565/keratinization.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="423" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt4F-2PuecPj_ivgnHBTb9-X2tlNUyd4HAFTNgGXob_t8R9m9J39MqDHeXFiSymNgnqzjYi40UrZO2t4uJyArI9CUNh-mIhr4ZbQk7YBGun13-zHRqVNjfAfIev4TPkWNcbUa6hl1SWHaC_wZhFSyDIKq4YutB5eOCk6kXFu1oM0uz4_W4AllJl9hP8w/w150-h200/keratinization.JPG" width="150" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The head of an intact penis (above)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">is kept shiny and moist by the foreskin.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">By comparison, the head of the circumcised</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span>penis (below) is dry and becomes dull </span><span>due</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to constant exposure and keratinization over time.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So, if one has been following along, one can see that male infant circumcision does indeed deprive a healthy, non-consenting minor of function. It may not be an <i>"essential"</i> function, such as erection and the ejaculation of semen, but function none the less. And, if one is to value sexual pleasure, I'd say very important functions.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"></span><p>To minimize the mutilation that is male infant circumcision, advocates often like to cite the <i>"low complication rates"</i>.
That's not the problem. That you're cutting off healthy tissue from a
child's penis IS the complication. The fact that
it's <i>"only 2%"</i> does not rescue circumcision advocates. 2% of 1.4 million babies is STILL 28,000 babies with complications. <span style="font-family: times;">The risks include </span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7594234/" style="font-family: times;">infection</a><span style="font-family: times;">, </span><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2015/04/mogen-circumcision-clamp-manufacturers.html" style="font-family: times;">partial</a><span style="font-family: times;"> or </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer" style="font-family: times;">full ablation</a><span style="font-family: times;"> of the penis</span><span style="font-family: times;">, a botched procedure with permanent misshaping, hemorrhage, sepsis </span><span style="font-family: times;">and even </span><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2022/03/circumcision-death-13yo-bleeds-to-death.html" style="font-family: times;">death</a><span style="font-family: times;">.</span></p><p>It's circumcision itself that is the problem. Even if everything <i>"goes perfectly well"</i>
you're still cutting off part of a child's penis, you're removing
healthy, functional flesh from children who aren't legally allowed to
get tattoos, and that's the issue.</p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><b>Conclusion:<br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">To conclude my rebuttal of ArchPhantom94's definitions of <i>"mutilation,"</i> which are, if I understand correctly, <i>"</i></span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><i>intentional
infliction of physical abuse designed to cause serious permanent
disfigurement or permanent or protracted loss or impairment of the
functions," "damage"</i> and <i>"deprivation",</i> male infant </span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">is all of these things.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">If history and medical literature on the subject are correct, the very objective of male infant circumcision was the very depravation of males of sexual function by intentional and deliberate disfigurement. Male infant circumcision is the deliberate attempt at the control of male sexuality. It was expressly meant to reduce male sexual pleasure in order to prevent masturbation.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">I'd like to come back to ArchPhantom94's last-minute switch to </span><i>"deprivation" </i>as the <i>"operative word and element when it comes to
mutilation." </i>I've already demonstrated that male infant circumcision can indeed be called<i> "mutilation" </i>based on the definitions s/he gives, but deprivation is NOT the<i> "operative word and element when it comes to mutilation."</i> The operative words here are medical necessity and informed consent. That is the difference, and one I talk about in <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/09/repost-of-ecstasy-and-rape-surgery-and.html">a previous post</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Sometimes, circumcision is NOT mutilation.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">When is that?<br />
<br />
When it is <span class="ssens">performed
as a matter of medical necessity, and there is no alternative option,
circumcision is not mutilation. (This is actually standard medical
practice that governs all other forms of surgery.)</span><br />
<div class="scnt">
<span class="ssens"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="scnt">
<span class="ssens">In addition, when it is performed upon the request of a consenting adult, it is not mutilation.</span></div>
<div class="scnt">
<span class="ssens">Medical necessity and/or informed consent is the difference between surgery and mutilation. </span></div>
<div class="scnt">
<span class="ssens"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="scnt">
<span class="ssens"><b>Consent is at the center of the intactivist argument</b></span></div>
Ladies
who are interested in getting their labia removed, their clitoris
permanently exposed, or any other surgical alterations to their genital
organs can find the appropriate surgeon and schedule an appointment.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5WgGIqqk8KqqBjoVHqv6QlobnFyrzC89w0ONzqjL12AwbhCZVhlVq3dGgeSqjjHTCq4LRIPLXLRynHIBx29Lx8q38EZr46i0AmDUPJ6QbPa-iFyo6EKfckp7WSW9EUrlb_KNjkb3IlSiShXN7Ub_wB_1BccNA9TadbwDtXHT08_a0V9Vqoud81qmClg/s420/IMG_1563.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="210" data-original-width="420" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5WgGIqqk8KqqBjoVHqv6QlobnFyrzC89w0ONzqjL12AwbhCZVhlVq3dGgeSqjjHTCq4LRIPLXLRynHIBx29Lx8q38EZr46i0AmDUPJ6QbPa-iFyo6EKfckp7WSW9EUrlb_KNjkb3IlSiShXN7Ub_wB_1BccNA9TadbwDtXHT08_a0V9Vqoud81qmClg/s320/IMG_1563.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The
removal of the clitoral hood and external labia are known as <i>"clitoral
unroofing"</i> and <i>"labiaplasty" </i>respectively. They are perfectly legal for
the appropriate surgeons to perform at the request of the interested
woman.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
<br />
Forcibly performing any of these acts on a
healthy, non-consenting minor constitutes genital mutilation, and is
punishable by law, and there is no exception for "religious beliefs."<br />
<br />
The difference is consent.<br />
<br />
There
is nothing wrong with male circumcision, if, indeed, becoming
circumcised is the express wish of the adult male in question.<br />
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It is forcibly circumcising a healthy, non-consenting minor which is a problem.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Consent and medical necessity are the operative words, and it’s what makes the difference between surgery and mutilation.</div></div><p>Male infant circumcision is mutilation because, in addition to the deliberate destruction of normal, healthy tissue, meant to curb male sexuality, children can’t consent.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Mission Statement</b><br /><span style="background-color: white;">The foreskin is not a birth defect. Neither is it a congenital deformity or genetic anomaly akin to a 6th finger or a cleft. Neither is it a medical condition like a ruptured appendix or diseased gall bladder. Neither is it a dead part of the body, like the umbilical cord, hair, or fingernails.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">The foreskin is not <i>"extra skin."</i> The foreskin is normal, natural, healthy, functioning tissue, present in all males at birth; it is as intrinsic to male genitalia as labia are to female genitalia.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Unless there is a medical or clinical indication, the circumcision of a healthy, non-consenting individual is a deliberate wound; it is the destruction of normal, healthy tissue, the permanent disfigurement of normal, healthy organs, and by very definition, infant genital mutilation, and a violation of the most basic of human rights.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Without medical or clinical indication, doctors have absolutely no business performing surgery in healthy, non-consenting individuals, much less be eliciting any kind of "decision" from parents.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">In any other case, reaping profit from non-medical procedures on non-consenting individuals constitutes medical fraud.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Genital integrity, autonomy and self-determination are inalienable human rights. I am against the forced circumcision of healthy, non-consenting minors because it violates these rights.</span><br /><br /></span></p><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Genital mutilation, whether it be wrapped in culture, religion or “research” is still genital mutilation.</b><br /><br /><b>It is mistaken, the belief that the right amount of “science” can be used to legitimize the deliberate violation of basic human rights.</b></span></blockquote><p> </p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Related Posts:</b></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/09/repost-of-ecstasy-and-rape-surgery-and.html">REPOST: Of Ecstasy and Rape, Surgery and Mutilation</a></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small; 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caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.whale.to/a/circumcision1.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">A Short History of Circumcision in the U.S.</a></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7594234/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">MRSA Infection in Circumcised Baby Boys</a></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #888888; font-family: times; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2018/11/431411/female-circumcision-part-malaysian-culture-says-dpm" style="color: #888888; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: none;">Female circumcision part of Malaysian culture, says DPM</a></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/magazine/20circumcision-t.html" style="color: #888888; font-family: times; text-decoration: none;">New York Times Magazine - A Cutting Tradition </a></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-76178576602885566352023-11-23T00:06:00.000-08:002023-11-23T09:20:02.118-08:00Male Infant Circumcision Has No Basis in Modern Medicine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_QPfo5Adv1Xmj12-bztAOoFwTpIQieIN-hazSR_ZVxinR0VZyjzRX9Qw5td6TP-IO0yb6Fv_D2mzjEU9CrGojj6vuxEEb5xWo9hHuolktT91_Jqd5epxB3Lw9YmiVk2OLlPvYwJh4iA/s1988/8B5E9486-057A-435C-AA96-EB6E63160183.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1435" data-original-width="1988" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_QPfo5Adv1Xmj12-bztAOoFwTpIQieIN-hazSR_ZVxinR0VZyjzRX9Qw5td6TP-IO0yb6Fv_D2mzjEU9CrGojj6vuxEEb5xWo9hHuolktT91_Jqd5epxB3Lw9YmiVk2OLlPvYwJh4iA/w640-h462/8B5E9486-057A-435C-AA96-EB6E63160183.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">Routine male infant circumcision has come and gone in most of the Western, industrialized world. There was once a point in time when it was performed on most males in many countries in the British Commonwealth. It was once common in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand for boys to be circumcised routinely. The practice has but since, mostly been abandoned, however. Male infants are no longer routinely circumcised in either of these countries. Ethnic minorities from cultures where male infant circumcision is prevalent, do go on to have their male children circumcised, but they are in the minority; most boys and men in the UK, New Zealand and Australia are intact, not to mention male infant circumcision simply isn’t practiced as a matter of medical course in the rest of Europe, Asia, South American countries, or even the rest of the world.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">There is only one English-speaking country where routine male infant circumcision continues as a standard practice of medicine, where doctors hold strong to and defend the practice, and that’s the United States of America. The ostensive pillars of the continuance of this practice are<i> “potential medical benefits,” “parental choice” </i>and <i>“religious practice.” </i>I say <i>“ostensive” </i>because advocates of male infant circumcision often have other non-stated reasons for defending the practice, as I shall demonstrate soon.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: times;">In this post, I’m going to take a closer look at the pillars holding up the practice of male infant circumcision, as defended by American doctors and physicians. I will take apart each of them and demonstrate how ultimately, this whole idea of male infant circumcision as defended by American medical organizations collapses, and American doctors, or just any doctor who performs male infant circumcision, have no legitimate leg to stand on.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><b>What is male infant circumcision?</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">Just so we're clear on what we're talking about, male infant circumcision is a euphemism for the surgical amputation of the hood of flesh that covers the glans or head of the penis, otherwise known as the foreskin. The foreskin is normal, healthy tissue that, with rare exception, is present in all baby boys at birth. Male infant circumcision is performed on healthy, non-consenting minors with no medical or clinical indication.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7hwSVL2vhXBfNZQYhOZV9XPEaX9OpjuLbPP4016e2Gcl-5eBRn2cP7X5zWxv4nxaeYHokY5dhurUGjMxGOQT9sPA7IA8at-WgUZRTGfMEQ6dyqFZXeSDk7BCHm7U_wNDU9Gsnzdtf_mZubXCntGLKGdxvaR4_AziaX4bkZhim_VV_KoziAo_IIyfRww/s231/IMG_5018.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="231" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7hwSVL2vhXBfNZQYhOZV9XPEaX9OpjuLbPP4016e2Gcl-5eBRn2cP7X5zWxv4nxaeYHokY5dhurUGjMxGOQT9sPA7IA8at-WgUZRTGfMEQ6dyqFZXeSDk7BCHm7U_wNDU9Gsnzdtf_mZubXCntGLKGdxvaR4_AziaX4bkZhim_VV_KoziAo_IIyfRww/s1600/IMG_5018.jpeg" width="231" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">The risks include <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7594234/">infection</a>, <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2015/04/mogen-circumcision-clamp-manufacturers.html">partial</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer">full ablation</a> of the penis<span>, a botched procedure with permanent misshaping, hemorrhage, sepsis </span>and even <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2022/03/circumcision-death-13yo-bleeds-to-death.html">death</a><span>. Circumcision botches are so common, there are actually <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/05/circumcision-botches-and-elephant-in.html">doctors that specialize in revising other doctors' mistakes</a>. The long term effects of circumcision, even when the operation is carried out "successfully" are drying out of the mucosal tissue on and around the glans or head of the penis, necessity for artificial lubrication, loss of nerves, keratinization and desensitization over time. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><b>The Ethical Dilemma</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">The ethical dilemma surrounding the circumcision of healthy minors is the fact that it’s the removal of normal, healthy tissue, it’s an irrevocable procedure and children cannot give their consent. There is no dilemma in performing surgery in minors, when and if there is clear and compelling medical indication. Circumcision is mostly performed on healthy minors without medical indication, hinging on the pretexts of <i>"potential medical benefits,"</i> <i>"parental choice"</i> and <i>"the religion or culture"</i> of the parents. Let us take a close inspection at these pretexts.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: times;">The Pseudo-Medical Case for Male Infant Circumcision Deconstructed</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi60qr_oNjfk2FWwK1lv6fxzVbyVHP_2-uS12SVknJy7xqBw8F4OjkS189oW5KUpeORQgo4AJp36A_DyyLXgqbtbR8iFkhlx3AMHVbI1mbx0UAjx8AhKmkanH837orAq33qsAKdXXKa8Ok/s1200/EWnNC5yWAAcuiN5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="1200" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi60qr_oNjfk2FWwK1lv6fxzVbyVHP_2-uS12SVknJy7xqBw8F4OjkS189oW5KUpeORQgo4AJp36A_DyyLXgqbtbR8iFkhlx3AMHVbI1mbx0UAjx8AhKmkanH837orAq33qsAKdXXKa8Ok/s320/EWnNC5yWAAcuiN5.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">The main pillar sustaining male infant circumcision in the West is the allegation of <i>"potential medical benefits." </i>While in any other case, standard medicine dictates that unnecessarily invasive procedures should not be used where alternative, less invasive treatment are equally efficient and available, male infant circumcision is the only instance in modern medicine where parents are asked to consent to surgery on a healthy, non-consenting child with no medical indication whatsoever.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">The pretext is that male infant circumcision *could* have <i>“potential medical benefits”</i> or <i>“preventative health benefits”</i> that warrant doctors asking parents to make a <i>“choice”</i> as to whether they want their son circumcised or not, and then perform elective, non-medical surgery on the child based on that “choice,” of course, asking parents to absolve them by means of signing a parental consent form.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">In the following paragraphs we will examine the religio-cultural roots of the practice of male circumcision, its entrenchment practice in American medicine, and the ongoing search for pseudo-medical alibis to justify the continuation of this non-essential surgical assault on healthy, non-consenting minors.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">A Brief History of Male Circumcision</span></b></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Whereas the practice of male infant circumcision as medical practice is a relatively recent phenomenon, only entrenching itself in modern medicine last century, the practice of male circumcision as a cultural and/or religious practice dates back millennia. Male circumcision can be seen depicted in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, suggesting it predates male infant circumcision as practiced by adherents of Judaism, where male infant circumcision is a divine commandment for all Jews in the book of Genesis.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_XglgrQvOfAd3aMJMBqRk-NuPjBXuJwhfY2vjJxUUGEXk_zTYc4V6ml2BH_t02WgiFRcJ1ut7kyXqdKXT2TW4mf9-RZ_5R_UoFZXWxMH-pKabPEWOyxypkFeDlMixeSWrdhODqIea2BA/s600/34A35096-39C1-43AB-B73B-98C48F1C907C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="600" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_XglgrQvOfAd3aMJMBqRk-NuPjBXuJwhfY2vjJxUUGEXk_zTYc4V6ml2BH_t02WgiFRcJ1ut7kyXqdKXT2TW4mf9-RZ_5R_UoFZXWxMH-pKabPEWOyxypkFeDlMixeSWrdhODqIea2BA/w400-h210/34A35096-39C1-43AB-B73B-98C48F1C907C.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Male adolescent circumcision has also been practiced among Muslims for centuries, and though it does not appear in the holy Muslim text, the Qur’an, it appears in Hadith, which are separate. Male circumcision is also an important rite of passage in several tribes in Africa, where it is seen as an indispensable token of manhood.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZESmiIfUE6-ybyJlsjOb_wMlzbbW629KsUhlacXLgVbnmmhjTnS5-P7kr0cnwLmacaVoYfpmvu-0jPe_EeGK3Mzt0dfX1AUmW2hF9I1ZGZZhIsjbC6zKEjAGpr5i7wVw8xqhLWV5y2Bc/s700/F364894C-7196-445C-99A5-DA0133B1BC4E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="700" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZESmiIfUE6-ybyJlsjOb_wMlzbbW629KsUhlacXLgVbnmmhjTnS5-P7kr0cnwLmacaVoYfpmvu-0jPe_EeGK3Mzt0dfX1AUmW2hF9I1ZGZZhIsjbC6zKEjAGpr5i7wVw8xqhLWV5y2Bc/w400-h225/F364894C-7196-445C-99A5-DA0133B1BC4E.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Male infant circumcision as a <i>medical practice</i> began in the last century, when physicians were looking for a way to prevent masturbation. The practice of male infant circumcision continues today under pretenses of <i>“medical benefits”</i> or <i>“disease prevention.” </i>The main takeaway from this section is that male circumcision as a religious or cultural practice far predates male infant circumcision as <i>“medicine”</i> by millennia, and that the latter is in fact a relatively recent phenomenon. Religious and cultural rationale for forcibly circumcising males came first; pseudo-medical justifications came much, much later.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">The First Pseudo-Medical Claims</span></b></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">To begin to deconstruct the argument of “medical benefits” in favor of male infant circumcision, it’s important to highlight the practice’s pseudo-medical roots. In the Victorian West, circumcision was first presented as one of many solutions to the practice of masturbation. Masturbation was then seen as <i>“immoral self-pollution,”</i> and in itself, the cause of every disease under the sun.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0MV3De7snVvCnbon8iZhaEYxOM1ftHvcNH2YQNvH6TVgWoJ-3AYrsDQwS3GGKtOWG0lT0wVmAbcQPX1xUFEmzwfaD-RTOg8I33a7CNhqL5ac9WQWrJRCfDRkHL0PFflMUHtXZ5J3Bc78/s655/50C88123-0F7C-466F-B80E-B3DE835F03B8.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="655" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0MV3De7snVvCnbon8iZhaEYxOM1ftHvcNH2YQNvH6TVgWoJ-3AYrsDQwS3GGKtOWG0lT0wVmAbcQPX1xUFEmzwfaD-RTOg8I33a7CNhqL5ac9WQWrJRCfDRkHL0PFflMUHtXZ5J3Bc78/s320/50C88123-0F7C-466F-B80E-B3DE835F03B8.jpeg" width="293" /></span></a></div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Masturbation was said to be the cause of blindness, infertility, mental illness and physical weakness among other things. Sylvester Graham, the inventor of the Graham cracker, cited masturbation as <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071473/#ref9">the cause for </a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071473/#ref9">tuberculosis, heart disease, epilepsy, and insanity</a>. Men of his time began to latch onto the belief that masturbation causes<i> “pollution of the mind,”</i> which in some sort of magical transfiguration, equated to the <i>“pollution of the body,”</i> and thus the cause of all manner of physical disease. Graham and John Harvey Kellogg, founder of Kellogg’s cereals, would make the claim that circumcision was a cure for masturbation, and thus all the diseases caused by it. These were the beginnings of the claims that circumcision could somehow<i> “prevent disease.”</i></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-family: times;"><i><br /></i></span></p><div><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;">Of course, circumcision does not stop boys and men from masturbating. It never can. This didn’t stop circumcision advocates, namely physicians who performed circumcision, or for whom circumcision was a religious practice or cultural custom, from attempting to continue to vindicate male circumcision with pseudo-medical claims. Medical literature of the last century is <a href="http://www.whale.to/a/circumcision1.html">littered with <i>“research”</i></a> making claims that circumcision can prevent this or that disease, masturbation lingering as a culprit for their cause. The following are some of the claims on that list:</span></div><div><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"> </span></div><div><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i></i></p><blockquote><i>"<u>Hip trouble</u> is from falling down, an accident that children with tight foreskins are especially liable to owing to the <u>weakening of the muscles</u> produced by the condition of the genitals."</i> <b>Lewis L. Sayer, Circumcision For the Cure of Enuresis, Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 7 (1887): pp. 631-633.</b></blockquote><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i></i></p><blockquote><i>"In consequence of circumcision the epithelial covering of the glans becomes dry, hard, less liable to excoriation and inflammation, and less pervious to <u>venereal viruses.</u> The <u>sensitivity of the glans is diminished</u>, but not sufficiently to interfere with the copulative function of the organ or to constitute an objection ... <u>It is well authenticated that the foreskin ... is a fruitful cause of the habit of masturbation in childre</u>n ... I conclude that the foreskin is detrimental to health, and that circumcision is a wise measure of hygiene." </i><b>Jefferson C. Crossland, The Hygiene of Circumcision, NY Medical Journal, vol. 53 (1891): pp. 484-485.</b></blockquote><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i></i></p><blockquote><i>"In all cases in which male children are suffering <u>nerve tension, confirmed derangement of the digestive organs, restlessness, irritability, and other disturbances of the nervous system, even to chorea, convulsions, and paralysis</u>, 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." </i><b>Charles E. Fisher, Circumcision, in A Hand-Book On the Diseases of Children and Their Homeopathic Treatment. Chicago: Medical Century Co., 1895. p. 875.</b></blockquote><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><blockquote><i>"Local indications for circumcision: <u>Hygienic, phimosis, paraphimosis, redundancy (where the prepuce more than covers the glans), adhesions, papillomata, eczema (acute and chronic), oedema, chancre, chancroid, cicatrices, inflammatory thickening, elephantiasis, naevus, epithelioma, gangrene, tuberculosis, preputial calculi, hip-joint disease, hernia</u>. Systemic indications: <u>Onanism [masturbation], seminal emissions, enuresis, dysuria, retention, general nervousness, impotence, convulsions, hystero-epilepsy</u>."</i> <b>Editor, Medical Record, Circumscisus, Medical Record, vol. 49 (1896): p. 430.</b></blockquote><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><blockquote><i>"The prepuce is an important factor in the production of <u>phthisis [tuberculosis]</u>. This can be proven by the immunity of the *<u>Jewish race*</u> from tubercular affections."</i> <b>S. G. A. Brown, A Plea for Circumcision, Medical World, vol. 15 (1897): pp. 124-125.</b></blockquote><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i></i></p><blockquote><i>"Not infrequently </i><u style="font-style: italic;">marital unhappiness</u><i> would be better relieved by circumcising the husband than by suing for divorce." </i><b>A. W. Taylor, Circumcision - Its Moral and Physical Necessities and Advantages, Medical Record, vol. 56 (1899): p. 174.</b></blockquote><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i></i></p><blockquote><i>"<u>Frequent micturition [urination], loss of flesh, convulsions, phosphatic calculus, hernia, nervous exhaustion, dyspepsia, diarrhea, prolapse of rectum, balanitis, acute phimosis and masturbation</u> are all conditions induced by the constricted long prepuce, and all to be rapidly remedied by the simple operation of circumcision." </i><b>H. G. H. Naylor, A Plea for Early Circumcision, Pediatrics, vol. 12 (1901): p. 231.</b></blockquote><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i></i></p><blockquote><i>"I have repeatedly seen such cases as <u>convulsions, constant crying in infants, simulated hip joint diseases, backwardness in studies, enuresis, marasmus, muscular inco-ordination, paralysis, masturbation, neurasthenia, and even epilepsy</u>, cured or greatly benefited by the proper performance of circumcision."</i> <b>W. G. Steele, Importance of Circumcision, Medical World, vol. 20 (1902): pp. 518-519.</b></blockquote><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i></i></p><blockquote><i>"The little sufferer lay in his mother's lap. The <u>dropsy</u> ... had taken the form of <u>hydrocephalus</u> ... I then circumcised the child ... The head diminished in size and in two weeks the condition of hydrocephalus had disappeared and the child was once more dismissed as cured."</i> <b>E. H. Pratt, Circumcision, Orificial Surgery: Its Philosophy, Application and Technique. Edited by B. E. Dawson. Newark: Physicians Drug News Co. 1912. pp. 396-398.</b></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><i>"It is generally accepted that irritation derived from a tight prepuce may be followed by <u>nervous phenomena</u>, among these being <u>convulsions and epilepsy</u>. It is therefore not at all improbable that in many infants who die in convulsions the real cause of <u>death</u> is a long or tight prepuce. The <u>foreskin is a frequent factor in the causation of masturbation</u> ... Circumcision offers a <u>diminished tendency to masturbation</u>, <u>nocturnal pollutions, convulsions and other nervous results</u> of local irritation. It is the moral duty of every physician to encourage circumcision in the young." </i><b>Abraham L. Wolbarst, Universal Circumcision, Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 62 (1914): pp. 92-97.</b></blockquote><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i></i></p><blockquote><i>"Circumcision is an excellent thing to do; it helps to prevent <u>hernia</u> due to straining, and later it helps in <u>preventing masturbation</u>. The ordinary schoolboy is not taught to keep himself clean, and if he is taught he thinks too much about the matter." </i><b>I. Solomons, For and Against Circumcision, British Medical Journal, 5 June 1920, p. 768.</b></blockquote><p></p></span></div><div><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;">It should be obvious to anyone browsing the medical literature at the time, that many “researchers” had this preoccupation with how all manner of disease was caused by masturbation, and that circumcision was the "cure." Since doctors and physicians were looking for ways to prevent masturbation, it didn't take long for opportunistic entrepreneurs to jump on the bandwagon to push their own wares. John Harvey Kellogg offered up his corn flakes, and Sylvester Graham offered up his crackers as ways to diminish sexual urges and abate masturbation, including circumcision itself.</span></div><div><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgNo8Gy-5Z3qRKR4OkMXXUb0NglsygxktGFwoX0J3bY9hQ-l9tB05o4MbnmXbjAcqlNf1VzfygymV7ARQcMd7jmkj_m6N9dsaqz_Hiy2WHkwPTax3NBAs9pLCArxIxTO7PdF3gRVm5_DI/s990/john+harvey+kellogg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="990" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgNo8Gy-5Z3qRKR4OkMXXUb0NglsygxktGFwoX0J3bY9hQ-l9tB05o4MbnmXbjAcqlNf1VzfygymV7ARQcMd7jmkj_m6N9dsaqz_Hiy2WHkwPTax3NBAs9pLCArxIxTO7PdF3gRVm5_DI/w400-h297/john+harvey+kellogg.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;">Circumcision and cornflakes weren't the only proposed solution for the prevention of masturbation; history is littered with many chastity devices meant to prevent erection, sex and masturbation. There was this preoccupation with associating the act of masturbation with pain.</span></div><div><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEWdr2v6yANQzbqSJix-AYKHH6TI2iJwGWCMinRdEH8Q_nEDgQATmido4uMDCdfjskWvZFRyplsLtKFJPDaxH1X-qLtV-R-Tn1GlhJniQAoDQeJ7d5Fjb0DANXN9C0Mg3Ma764I8j85i4/s1800/FF79CBC5-59B3-4C2B-82B7-8FCEE896E436.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1012" data-original-width="1800" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEWdr2v6yANQzbqSJix-AYKHH6TI2iJwGWCMinRdEH8Q_nEDgQATmido4uMDCdfjskWvZFRyplsLtKFJPDaxH1X-qLtV-R-Tn1GlhJniQAoDQeJ7d5Fjb0DANXN9C0Mg3Ma764I8j85i4/s320/FF79CBC5-59B3-4C2B-82B7-8FCEE896E436.webp" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Yl8B9J9muz8u_THRaBem1yTlBjjua2C7_UKLBbH-AW6aYXt2lA6BvzJatiW8ZzbsKJJSXmdFFk1trvIWDWWPkb0Y-sIuYgtz1KYKcTwG8ktkznT3IuAza3ywkHJf1FH8tnkiGdB29fY/s576/5367C148-CDC2-4CFD-8D66-BF4863866F7C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="576" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Yl8B9J9muz8u_THRaBem1yTlBjjua2C7_UKLBbH-AW6aYXt2lA6BvzJatiW8ZzbsKJJSXmdFFk1trvIWDWWPkb0Y-sIuYgtz1KYKcTwG8ktkznT3IuAza3ywkHJf1FH8tnkiGdB29fY/w200-h199/5367C148-CDC2-4CFD-8D66-BF4863866F7C.jpeg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">Ambitious entrepreneurs weren't the only ones interested in providing solutions to masturbation; let us remember that circumcision had long been a historically embattled religious custom among Jews, and it didn't take long for them to seize this opportunity for redemption. After all, it was the great Maimonides himself who said that circumcision "quiets" the male organ.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl-TXPuVdHHqfbfhyphenhyphenQ6O_wW6FUblkKzXWqryr4tGDh2fSvK3PLlympWWH1a7vdd8RA2gmec-i_4kI77LL-IR0wjc65duFBCnjToBvZwgNNygirrEuPZHznZbaRf-8sQxVLJjCkuiDT7bPBogLyB93hXMbvacrGDMxHwGKlRWdPlaToyMAgVaRfC5hmDQ/s552/Maimonides.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="398" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl-TXPuVdHHqfbfhyphenhyphenQ6O_wW6FUblkKzXWqryr4tGDh2fSvK3PLlympWWH1a7vdd8RA2gmec-i_4kI77LL-IR0wjc65duFBCnjToBvZwgNNygirrEuPZHznZbaRf-8sQxVLJjCkuiDT7bPBogLyB93hXMbvacrGDMxHwGKlRWdPlaToyMAgVaRfC5hmDQ/s320/Maimonides.jpg" width="231" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><i></i></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: times;"><i>"...with regard to circumcision, one of the reasons for it is... the
wish to bring about a decrease in sexual intercourse and a weakening of
the organ in question, so that this activity be diminished and the organ
be in as quiet a state as possible...</i><br />
<i>The bodily pain caused to that member is the real purpose of circumcision...</i><br />
<i>...violent concupiscence and lust that goes beyond what is needed are
diminished. The fact that circumcision weakens the faculty of sexual
excitement and sometimes perhaps diminishes the pleasure is indubitable.
For if at birth this member has been made to bleed and has had its
covering taken away from it, it must indubitably be weakened."</i><br />~Rabbi Moses Maimonides </span></blockquote></div><div><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"> The myth was invented that Jewish men never suffered a myriad of diseases because they didn't masturbate because they were circumcised as babies. (And if they did masturbate, it was because of those uncircumcised gentiles.) <br /></span></div><div><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"> </span></div><div><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"></span><p><span style="font-family: times;"><b></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times;"><i><b>1871: 1% of the U.S. male population circumcised</b> <br />
"I refer to <u>masturbation as one of the effects of a long prepuce</u>; not that this
vice is entirely absent in those who have undergone circumcision, though</i> <u>I never
saw an instance in a Jewish child of very tender years, except as the result of
association with children whose covered glans have naturally impelled them to
the habit</u><i>." <b>M. J. Moses, The Value of Circumcision as a Hygienic and
Therapeutic Measure, NY Medical Journal, vol. 14 (1871): pp. 368-374.</b></i></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: times;"><b></b> </span><p></p></div><div><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"> Jews, long disparaged for the practice of male infant circumcision, now enjoyed newfound vindication in this idea that they've held the key to the prevention of numerous diseases that ailed mankind all along; it was given to them in the form of the covenant by none other than Elohim himself.</span></div><div><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;">The proposition that circumcision prevented masturbation was destined to be disproven, however, and when it finally was, "researchers" began to take it upon themselves to look for diseases and ailments circumcision *could* cure, and it's been wild goose chase after wild goose chase ever since.</span></div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Circumcision “Medical Benefits” Treadmill</span></b></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">One by one, science has destroyed every claim of diseases circumcision was supposed to cure or prevent, and, like clockwork, "researchers" have scrambled to write new "studies" in order to keep propping up, in order to keep protecting the practice. I'll call it, the “circumcision medical benefits treadmill”, because new claims are always being made, as old claims get debunked. </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">At this point, I want to bring attention to the curious phenomenon going on. Usually, science strives to outdate itself; to make itself obsolete. As newer, better, more effective ways to treat or prevent disease are discovered, older methods are debunked, discarded and/or retired. Blood-letting was found to be inconsequential or even dangerous. The practice of head trepanning has since been abandoned.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5wdlvOsGMZM7_buqdgXnUBcVp7KRPwvjclQOcq6a7TJR8U3H8k8gk2yiWiAPSE8vx2YtmXCDRnKmSInEsovSQ7bV9c7DeA8rUqV4cKyns_iuc374hn4ijIiUKFkvY7A8UjDfwtfDHzkx8QakSwliMnuz5Vnwy77V_EqsAQtXBMTzO42q-2LWLuets3g/s1200/D4DbgnzWwAAxDiF.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5wdlvOsGMZM7_buqdgXnUBcVp7KRPwvjclQOcq6a7TJR8U3H8k8gk2yiWiAPSE8vx2YtmXCDRnKmSInEsovSQ7bV9c7DeA8rUqV4cKyns_iuc374hn4ijIiUKFkvY7A8UjDfwtfDHzkx8QakSwliMnuz5Vnwy77V_EqsAQtXBMTzO42q-2LWLuets3g/s320/D4DbgnzWwAAxDiF.jpg" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtXTJoHUiz16z5T4UMCiXSwcp5Qlx_dqvxEBUHNJ81XsUi1MiW48QL1Fu50QMEC0Vu9gnR2Va2JNAUi2J-PZsv5Z0On4b-wCzUkGUG54FJ2jiSq4Eyk4U2owY5HRNQ-6u3CZ3moxT_prWTaeoyuMRhydz5w2qdvo7YWfQ6c4aWzvoJNsCVhbBbTJg3eQ/s600/Unknown_artist_-_The_Trepanation_18th_century_print_-_(MeisterDrucke-932410).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="401" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtXTJoHUiz16z5T4UMCiXSwcp5Qlx_dqvxEBUHNJ81XsUi1MiW48QL1Fu50QMEC0Vu9gnR2Va2JNAUi2J-PZsv5Z0On4b-wCzUkGUG54FJ2jiSq4Eyk4U2owY5HRNQ-6u3CZ3moxT_prWTaeoyuMRhydz5w2qdvo7YWfQ6c4aWzvoJNsCVhbBbTJg3eQ/s320/Unknown_artist_-_The_Trepanation_18th_century_print_-_(MeisterDrucke-932410).jpg" width="214" /></a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">We no longer practice blood-letter or head trepanning, and we would</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">consider continuous "research" of these practice to find medical applications</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">for them to be ludicrous in light of better, more effective methods of treatment.</span><span class="s2"> <br /></span></span></div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;">Whereas usually, doctors and researchers seek out better, more effective, less invasive ways to treat or prevent disease, male infant circumcision is the only instance in modern medicine where the point of “research” and “studies” is to justify and protect a surgical procedure, which also happens to be a religious, historically embattled cultural practice. Ostensibly, <i>“medical benefits”</i> is the pretext, however, a feigned interest in<i> “disease prevention,” “medical research”</i> and <i>“public health”</i> may mask non-stated conflicts of interest that male infant circumcision advocates may be loathe to openly talk about, and the true reasons for keeping the circumcision medical benefits treadmill going.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s2">Here's how it works; male circumcision has roots in culture and religion, but culture and religion alone are not enough reasons to justify medical practitioners cutting off healthy tissue from healthy, non-consenting minors. There has to be some sort of medical indication or justification, otherwise it's just charlatans charging parents to perform a purely cosmetic, cultural mutilation with no actual medical value. </span>To conceal any conflicts of interest, advocates of male infant circumcision must maintain an appearance of interest in <i>“disease prevention,” “medical benefits”</i> and<i>“public </i><i>health.”</i> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Any time a claim is debunked, advocates of male infant circumcision must scramble to find other claims that supports the circumcision of healthy, non-consenting male infants, in order to perpetuate the practice. Circumcision must constantly be <i>“researched,”</i> and new <i>“studies”</i> claiming<i> “medical benefits”</i> or the prevention of some disease must continue to be written to keep up with the circumcision medical benefits treadmill. It’s backwards ad-hoc/post-hoc pseudo-science, not unlike <i>“research”</i> used to prop up Creationism.</span></p><div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>The Latest Claims of Circumcision “Benefit”</b> - <b>"Reduction of STDs"</b></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Male infant circumcision advocates want to make the claim that circumcised males have a lower transmission rate for sexually transmitted diseases sound like a recent, innovative discovery. </span><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s2">However, as
evidenced by medical literature, this claim isn’t that
new; advocates of male circumcision have been claiming that circumcision
prevents all manner of disease, including sexually transmitted diseases
for at least a century (see references above).</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Numerous <i>"studies"</i> are quoted, but the fact is that the results of these <i>"studies"</i> simply don't manifest in the real world. If, indeed, circumcised males had a lower transmission rate for sexually transmitted disease as the <i>"studies show,"</i> then a lower transmission rate for these diseases would be observed in countries where circumcision is prevalent, and a higher transmission rate would be observed in countries where the majority of males are intact.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFNg03FL4DIA5QLs2VsLXTY1y4uuB0ZURHf15y7qozsGPyB5D0KPutMXq_t91Wq90msjKo0Gcz69AQv8kSdA0NQOLJphGTGdE3giPM8VAHcdRddAUkeMGQbSmJYMCufk-0hdIEYAV7-6Q/s450/scrutiny.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="303" data-original-width="450" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFNg03FL4DIA5QLs2VsLXTY1y4uuB0ZURHf15y7qozsGPyB5D0KPutMXq_t91Wq90msjKo0Gcz69AQv8kSdA0NQOLJphGTGdE3giPM8VAHcdRddAUkeMGQbSmJYMCufk-0hdIEYAV7-6Q/w400-h269/scrutiny.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"> </span><p></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;">80% of males are circumcised from birth in the United States of America. The United States is the only country in the Western world where male newborns are circumcised routinely. Of all Western countries, lower rates of STDs should be observed here, while rates in non-circumcising countries should be soaring; the exact opposite is true. <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-04-14/stds-hit-record-high-again-cdc-says">According to our very own Centers for Disease Control</a> (the CDC), reported cases of STDs have been at an all-time high for 6th consecutive years.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><br /><b></b></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">A Feigned Concern for Preventing Penile Cancer</span></b></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">For a while, the biggest scare tactic that circumcision advocates were using to justify circumcision and push it on parents was the claim that circumcision prevented penile cancer. However the risk of penile cancer is infinitesimally small; according to the <a href="https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/penile-cancer/about/key-statistics.html#:~:text=The%20American%20Cancer%20Society%20estimates,470%20deaths%20from%20penile%20cancer">American Cancer Society</a>, penile cancer is rare in North America and Europe. It's diagnosed in fewer than 1 man in 100,000 each year and accounts for fewer than 1% of cancers in men in the US. And circumcised men STILL GET penile cancer.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFT5BU6X4p405SC55bLE56-paXni-tbNSftFq1Wq8zYY4tgoT2E6kqll4H7IHjPa5BAbsmkbAH5qc2hFTwatoXXwIMk3jxAdYDhW4bkqrIL-JSsWGTKk2VO75wc6rgn_I3wfCPxPKcqWNOdpndkyCskoyH1bTkoZeZj-keqEcGP8OFTIJL5zT6WTzoTA/s1125/IMG_840E0669AE55-1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="1125" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFT5BU6X4p405SC55bLE56-paXni-tbNSftFq1Wq8zYY4tgoT2E6kqll4H7IHjPa5BAbsmkbAH5qc2hFTwatoXXwIMk3jxAdYDhW4bkqrIL-JSsWGTKk2VO75wc6rgn_I3wfCPxPKcqWNOdpndkyCskoyH1bTkoZeZj-keqEcGP8OFTIJL5zT6WTzoTA/s320/IMG_840E0669AE55-1.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">If one looks into other forms of cancer, this concern for penile cancer prevention is revealed to be disingenuous. Breast cancer is far more common and more deadly than penile cancer, and yet there seems to be no interest in removing the breast buds of baby girls<i> "to prevent breast cancer when they get older."</i> <i>"But it's not the same thing,"</i> some might argue. If the argument is prophylaxis, then yes it is. But the argument is not prophylaxis, now, is it; it's finding an alibi for male infant circumcision.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Let's look at another form of cancer that hits closer to home; the <a href="https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/vulvar-cancer/about/key-statistics.html#:~:text=In%20the%20United%20States%2C%20vulvar,some%20point%20during%20their%20life.">American Cancer Society</a> also says that in the United States, vulvar cancer accounts for nearly 6% of cancers of the female reproductive organs and 0.7% of all cancers in women. In the United States, women have a 1 in 333 chance of developing vulvar cancer at some point during their life.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvLfDwvjYk1QVO7I8JgYqVb4T7esTWQ2HL0bM5OzLfrxpA1f3L1dt_R5f3KZBvWun9iQ8Qg2BJBccLQxT3cR2DeMHfljNJcqAjC3y4TewTsl4MNbgNfsi9hF6hF6JA9aSncL4GQwJWMSkjfxUEzh2UrLy_DRk7kIfiwnChXkeEaDZyx4-7txb0Fcr2lA/s1125/IMG_E69EC4A8106C-1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="826" data-original-width="1125" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvLfDwvjYk1QVO7I8JgYqVb4T7esTWQ2HL0bM5OzLfrxpA1f3L1dt_R5f3KZBvWun9iQ8Qg2BJBccLQxT3cR2DeMHfljNJcqAjC3y4TewTsl4MNbgNfsi9hF6hF6JA9aSncL4GQwJWMSkjfxUEzh2UrLy_DRk7kIfiwnChXkeEaDZyx4-7txb0Fcr2lA/s320/IMG_E69EC4A8106C-1.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">This would mean that infant baby girls could benefit from a radical vulvectomy (otherwise known as "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infibulation">infibulation</a>", or Type III female genital mutilation as per the WHO). <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/01674828609016749">Research shows</a> that the majority of women who undergo a radical vulvectomy due to vulvar cancer are still able to function sexually. The prevention of cancer and the preservation of sexual function would sound like a win/win for girls and women.<br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Except this isn't actually about a genuine concern for the reduction of cancer, is it. Circumcision <i>"research"</i> isn't about looking for better, more effective ways to prevent disease; it's about protecting and preserving male infant circumcision as a pseudo-medical practice.<br /><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Decreased HPV Transmission</span></b></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Another disease circumcision advocates have endeavored to connect with the presence anatomically correct male genitals is the transmission of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Circumcision, they claim, reduces transmission, which would, in turn, reduce the incidence of cancer of the cervix in women. This claim is preposterous in more ways than one, including the fact that circumcised men still contract and transmit the virus, and that, if the <a href="https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/penile-cancer/causes-risks-prevention/risk-factors.html">American Cancer Society</a> is to be believed, HPV is not transmitted exclusively through sexual contact; it is transmitted via skin-to-skin contact with other parts of the body.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">The "research," which is almost always performed by the same circumcision advocates, focuses only on penile contact, and while yes, if those studies are to be taken seriously, it would appear that HPV transmission is more prevalent in intact men, although the incidence of transmission to circumcised men is not zero, and the transmission of HPV by circumcised men to their female partners is not unheard of. Strangely enough, there doesn't seem to be converse studies to see if circumcised women are less likely to transmit the HPV virus to men.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2334-13-18">Some studies</a> show little to no association between male circumcision and reduced transmission, and, at least <a href="https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20170519/circumcised-men-at-twice-the-risk-for-cancercausing-hpv-study-shows">one study</a> shows the opposite; that HPV transmission may in fact be more prevalent in circumcised men, twice as much, actually.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">At any rate, there are now vaccines for HPV, rendering this conversation obsolete.<br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></b></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">The Prevention of HIV Transmission</span></b></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Right now, the biggest canard being used to promote male infant circumcision is the claim that HIV transmission is lower among circumcised men. The latest "research" claims that male circumcision <i>"reduces the HIV transmission by 60%"</i> in Africa. 80% of the American male population is circumcised from birth. The United States should have one of the lowest HIV prevalence rates in the world, and should be a model of reference in this regard. And yet, a quick look at HIV statistics reveals that the United States has a higher HIV prevalence rate than several non-circumcising countries. According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_HIV/AIDS_adult_prevalence_rate">Wikipedia</a> (accessed August 8, 2021), the United States has a higher HIV prevalence rate than the following 37 non-circumcising countries (e.g. where 30% to nearly 0% of men are circumcised*) :</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"></span></p><blockquote><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;">Ecuador, Bolivia, France, Peru, Italy, Laos, Mexico, Spain, Vietnam, Armenia, India, Ireland, Lithuania, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada, Bhutan, Greenland, Norway, Denmark, Australia, Fiji, Taiwan, Germany, Romania, Sri Lanka, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, China, Malta, Czeck Republic, Montenegro</span></blockquote><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;">It should be noted that the US has a higher HIV prevalence rate than many countries south of the border, including Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia and Nicaragua. HIV should be skyrocketing in countries like India and China, who have massive populations, but it's simply not.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;">Let's also look at countries higher up on the chart that have both higher HIV prevalence, AND male circumcision rates:</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"></span></p><blockquote><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;">Equatorial Guinea, Tanzania, Kenya, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Cote d'Ivoire, Togo, The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Djibouti, Nigeria, Chad, Mali, Ethiopia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Mauritania, Niger, Malaysia, Indonesia, Somalia, Senegal</span></blockquote><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;">These are countries that, like the US, have circumcision rates upward from 70%, to nearly 100%*. If circumcision is so effective at <i>"reducing HIV transmission,"</i> then lower HIV prevalence rates would be observed here. And yet, they're not; they have some of the highest rates of HIV prevalence in the world.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;">In all actuality, a quick view of real-world data should put this claim that <i>"circumcision prevents HIV"</i> to rest. It does not, and it cannot, and spreading this lie that it could is a disservice, because more so than being inconsequential to HIV/STD transmission, it may actually result in an <i>increased</i> rate of transmission, as spreading the lie that circumcision <i>"reduces the rate of HIV transmission"</i> creates a false sense of security, which may cause people to <a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/zimbabwe/circumcised-men-abandoning-condoms">forgo the use of condoms</a>, which, even if we were to take the circumcision/HIV "research" at face value, would be more effective at preventing HIV transmission.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">*Data for circumcision rates by country was taken from an estimation of country-specific and global prevalence of male circumcision, and can be accessed <a href="https://pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12963-016-0073-5/tables/1">here</a>.</span></p></div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Conflicts of Interest, Confirmation Bias and the Endless Search for “Medical Benefits”</span></b></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Who are the perpetuators of male infant circumcision? Who are it’s defenders? Its advocates? Its “researchers”? Who are the doctors protecting male infant circumcision by codifying it in medical policy? Why would they be interested in exonerating the practice? Instead of finding ways to make the practice obsolete, why are they so intent in keeping it from being discontinued? Ostensibly <i>“medical benefit”</i> is the pretext, but are there unspoken biases and conflicts of interest at play?</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">It may sound “noble” for physicians to offer male infant circumcision as a <i>“parental choice,”</i> with an ostensive interest in <i>“medical benefits,” “disease prevention,” </i>but these stated pretexts may conceal conflicts of interest that may prevent them from giving parents complete and accurate information about the surgical procedure, and parents may not be making fully informed decisions. An honest physician would tell parents that the procedure is not medically necessary, and that unless there is a medical indication, they can’t be performing surgery on a healthy child. In this section, let’s explore a few conflicts of interest that may cloud a physician’s judgement in conveying full and accurate information to parents at best, and betray a feigned interest in <i>“medical benefits” </i>at worst.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Financial Gain</span></b></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">The fact is that there is <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2019/09/when-someone-says-its-not-money.html">financial incentive</a> to protect the practice of male infant circumcision. In the United States, an estimated 1.4 million male babies are circumcised annually, and at $100 per procedure, that’s already a $1,400,000 industry. It’s been reported <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2019/09/when-someone-says-its-not-money.html">in news outlets, and by individuals on Twitter</a>, however, that hospitals can charge anywhere from $2,000 to $7,000 per procedure, and that’s not even taking into account all of the gear and accessories manufactured and sold for the sole purpose of male infant circumcision.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">There is an entire industry in the production of circumstraint boards for restraining infants, circumcision kits, clamps, training equipment and so forth. Harvested foreskins are also sold to produce products like skin grafts and face creams. So while overtly, American physicians would like to allege the reasons they defend and perform male infant circumcision as having <i>“medical benefits,”</i> there are financial interests at stake.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Doctors, hospitals and medical organizations with money to lose, not to mention the impending threat of malpractice lawsuits to stave off, have financial incentive to insist that male infant circumcision has <i>“medical benefits,”</i> and to minimize, if not completely cover up the risks. Financial incentive compels those who profit from the practice of the circumcision of minors to look for and highlight only that <i>“research”</i> that confirms circumcision has <i>“medical benefit,”</i> and to ignore research that shows circumcision has little to no medical benefits, or that it has risks and harms.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSJ6pMYymg1SSLIW4Wt7DNvOa6MJuYMxVktqnn6SBcmgIi75z5s-5ywzi0vSg_Dq3qwLDhDg89N_AGWqfemoTwsBkj3II5vmztVuHuzgoFAb15AcrrUkYbQZIG807V2239c0GiSK-KUs0/s900/med+symbol+money.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="769" data-original-width="900" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSJ6pMYymg1SSLIW4Wt7DNvOa6MJuYMxVktqnn6SBcmgIi75z5s-5ywzi0vSg_Dq3qwLDhDg89N_AGWqfemoTwsBkj3II5vmztVuHuzgoFAb15AcrrUkYbQZIG807V2239c0GiSK-KUs0/s320/med+symbol+money.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i></i></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times;"><i>“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”</i> ~Upton Sinclair</span></blockquote><p></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></b></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Religious Conviction</span></b></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Before I even begin to talk about this point, I'd like to precede with a disclaimer. It's politically incorrect to criticize Jews or Judaism and any criticism of gets you labeled an "anti-semite" or "Nazi. Criticism of male infant circumcision in itself is often considered "anti-Semitic" because it's a cherished tradition if not the very identity of Jews and the cornerstone of Judaism. (Genesis 11) I must stress that my criticism of Jews involved in circumcision advocacy and Judaism as a possible conflict of interest when it comes to the advocacy of male infant circumcision in medicine or scientific research does not come from a place of hate. Rather, it comes from a disdain for child abuse and the violation of basic human rights</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>.</span><br /></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times;"><b>DISCLAIMER:</b><br />
<i>The views I express in this blog are my own
individual opinion, and they do not necessarily reflect the views of all
intactivists. I am but an individual with one opinion, and I do not
pretend to speak for the intactivist movement as a whole.<br /><br />I speak out against the forced circumcision of healthy, non-consenting
minors in any way, shape or form. I make no exception for "religion" nor
"cultural practice" of any kind. Please do not conflate my disdain for
the forced circumcision of minors with a belittlement of circumcised
men, or a hate for Jews.<br /><br />Male infant circumcision is not unique
to Judaism; in the US, 80% of males are circumcised, only 0.6% or so who
are Jews circumcised at a bris. It's disingenuous to paint criticism of
male infant circumcision as "an attack on Jews and Judaism" when it has
become such an ingrained part of American culture.<br /></i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: times;">This
day and age, not all Jewish men are circumcised, and not all Jewish
families circumcise their children. <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/02/intactivism-its-not-just-for-gentiles.html">Some of the most outspoken people in our movement happen to be Jewish</a>. Alternative ceremonies exist, such as
the Bris Shalom, for families choosing to forgo the ritual cutting. I
myself am an appreciator of Jewish tradition, music and culture.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: times;">If
I'm pointing something out, it's not out of hate for Jewish people,
it's out of disdain for the forced genital cutting of minors and the
violation of the most basic of human rights.</span></i></p></blockquote><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>On with my point.</span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">The next conflict of interest is that a stated interest in <i>“medical benefits”</i> is at odds with is religious conviction. Jewish doctors who promote or perform male infant circumcision allege <i>“medical benefits,”</i> but this is at odds with a personal conviction to their religious beliefs, where male infant circumcision is a divine commandment from God as stated in the Jewish holy text, the Torah.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>Historically, male infant circumcision has been a point of ridicule and disdain for Jews. </span>Jewish people have been on the defensive about the ritual mutilation of
male infant babies since the time of the Maccabees. Among other things,
Antiochus IV prohibited male infant circumcision. Jews were mocked by the
Greeks, where Jewish men would attempt to regrow their foreskins by
stretching out the remnants. (The rabbis at the time looked down on this
and thus added the "peri'ah" procedure of ripping every last bit of the
foreskin from the penile shaft so as to prevent restoration; this alone
is why medicalized male infant circumcision, the complete removal of the foreskin leaving a bare shaft and completely exposed glans is what it is today.) Jews
were feared by Europeans, and stories of Jews using gentile baby blood
to make matzo were invented to slander them (blood libel). On top of all
of this, circumcision was prohibited by Nazi Germany and used as a
marker to find Jews during the Holocaust.<span> <br /></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>The Victorians looking to circumcision as a possible solution to masturbation was a game changer for Jews. </span>Whereas in the past, male infant circumcision was something Jews were
ashamed about and didn't openly discuss, and circumcision in and of
itself wasn't openly discussed in general, save to disparage it, with the advent of the medicalization of it as a solution to masturbation and the prevention of many diseases, Jews no longer had to hide the practice and have even gained a sense of pride. Circumcision could now be talked about openly, and not merely as a religious ritual, but as a medical procedure with many “benefits.” Male infant circumcision went from a source of shame and ridicule, to one of newfound respect and prestige.<br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">The medicalization of male infant circumcision as "preventative
medicine" granted Jewish people redemption after having been
disparaged for so long, so Jewish advocates of male infant circumcision
are especially compelled to see to it that the practice of male infant
circumcision as "medicine" continues to be protected and isn’t presented
in anything other than a positive light. Having to present any risks or
negative implications of male infant circumcision would surely put them
in the awkward position of having to speak ill of their most cherished tradition to which they've held on for so long. The reversion of circumcision from revered medical intervention back to one of guilt and shame is not something Jewish advocates of circumcision would like to see happen.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>It
should be no surprise, then, that there is a disproportionate number of
Jewish doctors promoting circumcision, and "researchers" writing
literature saying that it is "beneficial." </span>Look into medical literature, and you'll find that there is a
disproportionate number of Jewish authors all purporting the "benefits"
of male infant circumcision. Look throughout <a href="http://www.whale.to/a/circumcision1.html">the history of male infant circumcision as medical panacea</a> and you'll see many Jewish names.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYf1p-xamgycobDPeKlTX1EQxbKWXh_b-pL1gdFkASxOleIwvmJz4uLUpYXcrdJs5v49Z-2McY48Xrb2dN2f1pExAWeSLJiKv2_cx4FHjkw2hVCzx-RlrIiUIEC2cyR9mWpmTNPNYWQmE/s900/PA_bigstock_Caduceus_Medical_Symbol_Chrome_7762432_+Mod.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="769" data-original-width="900" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYf1p-xamgycobDPeKlTX1EQxbKWXh_b-pL1gdFkASxOleIwvmJz4uLUpYXcrdJs5v49Z-2McY48Xrb2dN2f1pExAWeSLJiKv2_cx4FHjkw2hVCzx-RlrIiUIEC2cyR9mWpmTNPNYWQmE/s320/PA_bigstock_Caduceus_Medical_Symbol_Chrome_7762432_+Mod.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Jewish people can hardly be asked to give an objective, neutral, unbiased, dispassionate opinion on the matter, and yet, at least in America, they are often found in influential positions, such as authors writing circumcision “research,” or at the helm of medical organizations, writing public health policy. In fact, it can be said that one of the main reason male infant circumcision continues today is due to the presence of influential Jews in high places at organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and Centers for Disease Control protecting the practice. It was <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2016/08/edgar-schoen-americas-circumcision.html">Edgar Schoen</a> who steered the AAP away from advising against the practice in the 1970s, and it was Andrew Freedman who helped author the <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2012/08/aap-around-bush-and-closer-to-nowhere.html">AAP’s 2012 policy statement on circumcision</a>.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKmlXg1k4i3XcnizBak0cpyfy2o-zFGT0OxeUd3nYUuWFp3SFjc89niVyEtB8cFIR_fT15DykZAKXg2-gbKmbLa_rSpIMTnfHvjXNXn162Ni0Q9dP6aluddoP4LVrhQxn5TtBMPQ2H9Ys/s247/andrew+freedman.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="247" data-original-width="175" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKmlXg1k4i3XcnizBak0cpyfy2o-zFGT0OxeUd3nYUuWFp3SFjc89niVyEtB8cFIR_fT15DykZAKXg2-gbKmbLa_rSpIMTnfHvjXNXn162Ni0Q9dP6aluddoP4LVrhQxn5TtBMPQ2H9Ys/s0/andrew+freedman.png" width="175" /></span></a></div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"></i><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"></i></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times;"><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">"I circumcised [my son] myself on my parents’ kitchen table on the eighth day of his life. But I did it for religious, not medical reasons. I did it because I had 3,000 years of ancestors looking over my shoulder." </i><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">~Andrew Freedman</span></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: times;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"></span></span><p></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_utu5d6m6cfs8LcDCMgU6E1gRj3HMR4YKcIvGxYA_Qfh1lunKT7UoY_L8Qb-33Y3LOLREM-vdk1xlWDgdPMmsHQB2mMSaffDEhyphenhyphenQ7_Io1yCa7Gucl25CLH7XrigSVHEeo0-0qQ0fTexAnvH2aUBhqkkMmYh_Ld3um6uMkzgVrEY4c-akUP0jPJWVD1w/s380/IMG_0857.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="336" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_utu5d6m6cfs8LcDCMgU6E1gRj3HMR4YKcIvGxYA_Qfh1lunKT7UoY_L8Qb-33Y3LOLREM-vdk1xlWDgdPMmsHQB2mMSaffDEhyphenhyphenQ7_Io1yCa7Gucl25CLH7XrigSVHEeo0-0qQ0fTexAnvH2aUBhqkkMmYh_Ld3um6uMkzgVrEY4c-akUP0jPJWVD1w/w177-h200/IMG_0857.jpeg" width="177" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"></span><p></p><span style="font-family: times;">Susan Blank was the Chairwoman of the AAP Circumcision Task Force 2012, the same task force as Andrew Freedman above, and the same task force that released the AAP’s policy statement on circumcision in 2012 claiming <i>"the benefits outweigh the risks."</i> <br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT-7kmlWUUXX7aNs3-eqHTEzrHzd0nPtZHlIieBE1HJgBN2LlJGZ-OUHGYJ_YCdmMId7BVt775buR84WsBBj19B9J5sOavT4Acxaax1rVyFv_TAHzDoyBo1zTpctHy6JbT1Hill-Q9hU7Qojm-AZzEqTa0sfZXEL5wYARYHgtuzAn8HcyrVrW4xYLCyg/s750/IMG_0858.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="600" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT-7kmlWUUXX7aNs3-eqHTEzrHzd0nPtZHlIieBE1HJgBN2LlJGZ-OUHGYJ_YCdmMId7BVt775buR84WsBBj19B9J5sOavT4Acxaax1rVyFv_TAHzDoyBo1zTpctHy6JbT1Hill-Q9hU7Qojm-AZzEqTa0sfZXEL5wYARYHgtuzAn8HcyrVrW4xYLCyg/w160-h200/IMG_0858.jpeg" width="160" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><br /></span></p></span>Thomas R. Frieden was formerly the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). As Health Commissioner of New York City (2002-2009), he tried to promote circumcision as a way to prevent HIV in homosexual males.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span>In 2011,</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"> Colorado became the 18th state to drop Medicaid coverage for routine infant circumcision. In response to this, </span><a href="http://www.joycefoster.com/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Senator Joyce Foster</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"> introduced a bill to reinstate Medicaid coverage on the platforms of <i>"disease prevention," "fairness," "social justice"</i> and<i> "parental choice" </i>the following year.</span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuSVb4bFnWJUgl1jr31zxGnsQRRpMQ9VznjvWBOpMmrVvxMduUrQRYlEMPLsnULffuwCcoVOPs3q3F8d2OBCHVb7Muo8IqPJZWA-kNp2dbRs_cab4g2i67lK58C4p86XQWgsvs8LzyCljAZZ4w5Z4jMQYNj4j6P8CdwDPZg8blrE2h4FHX7-2HhiLGWg/s1501/joyce%20foster.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1501" data-original-width="1500" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuSVb4bFnWJUgl1jr31zxGnsQRRpMQ9VznjvWBOpMmrVvxMduUrQRYlEMPLsnULffuwCcoVOPs3q3F8d2OBCHVb7Muo8IqPJZWA-kNp2dbRs_cab4g2i67lK58C4p86XQWgsvs8LzyCljAZZ4w5Z4jMQYNj4j6P8CdwDPZg8blrE2h4FHX7-2HhiLGWg/w200-h200/joyce%20foster.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Despite trying to argue from a "social justice" platform, Foster couldn’t seem to be able to keep her ulterior motives from spilling out. In the preliminary hearing for the bill, after getting served by her opposition, Foster felt the need to explain her conflict of interests:</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /></span><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">"Let me clarify... I had my sons circumcised because it was a health issue <u>and</u> a religious issue."</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">In </span><a href="http://www.healthpolicysolutions.org/2012/04/24/lawmakers-reconsider-circumcision-for-low-income-babies/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">a news article</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">, she was quoted saying:</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /></span><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>"This bill will have absolutely nothing to do with the Jewish community of Colorado... [I am] most persuaded by the medical evidence."</i> ("Evidence" that couldn't persuade respected medical organizations in and outside the US to endorse the practice?)</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"> The </span><a href="http://forward.com/articles/151840/circumcision-debate-heats-up-in-colorado/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Jewish Daily Forward</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"> betrayed her true motives for the Colorado bill, however: </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /></span><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Foster, the main backer of the Colorado bill, said she believes that cutting Medicaid coverage for circumcision sent a message of support to anti-circumcision activists who want see the procedure outlawed nationwide. She is determined to push back against that effort.</i><i> </i><br /><br /><i>"Ultimately, I think when the anti-circumcision people begin to see so many states denying benefits... it will be easier for them now to make their case that circumcision should be banned altogether."</i></span></blockquote><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); clear: both; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipy35gKd1iHHszkwvv3cBLu64Dc-l1z_C2fPGxJBAfn_icvRJ4lGMwfOKY9pqz-zX9WtpRnXB_S3BXCYRxg89FSu6_y2bgEaQfn4zT_iPKNpWAWeqfaSjQAU99pgBkTMfSDsNjagWhSns/s1600/joyce+and+steven+foster.JPG" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipy35gKd1iHHszkwvv3cBLu64Dc-l1z_C2fPGxJBAfn_icvRJ4lGMwfOKY9pqz-zX9WtpRnXB_S3BXCYRxg89FSu6_y2bgEaQfn4zT_iPKNpWAWeqfaSjQAU99pgBkTMfSDsNjagWhSns/s320/joyce+and+steven+foster.JPG" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="237" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Above she is quoted the bill she pushed had nothing to do with the Jewish community in Colorado, however, it just so happens that Joyce Foster is married to a rabbi, Steven Foster.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">So did Foster introduce Senate Bill 90 in true interest in public health? Or did she use her position of power and authority to help safe-guard a medical procedure that also just happens to be a religious rite particular to Judaism?</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: times;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">It should be obvious by now, that one of the biggest reasons the practice of male infant circumcision continues is because </span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;">in the United States is because it is actively being protected and promoted by Jewish people in positions of medical authority and political power. Adherence to Judaism is a conflict of interest because of the historic and religious significance male infant circumcision has to people of the Jewish faith.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Cultural Inertia<br /></span></b><span style="font-family: times;">Another conflict of interest often unstated by circumcision advocates is merely cultural inertia. If circumcision is what one grew up with, if circumcision is ingrained in one’s culture, more than likely a person is going to want to defend it.</span></div></div><div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPf7_KThKeoDgHBSr_0qpcmRNi_d5JO1len25DEuWJuaFIc0-jabYgJPK_wONL4kmwur_GbGyL_ACUpb7b9iGivTnATn_NOinaC1cv1n9ZOa7Ihrm8_SJssKjBPL_qw02wiSYxso4AHo/s1424/8E1B66A3-C168-4751-8C33-A2564ED96DAA.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="947" data-original-width="1424" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPf7_KThKeoDgHBSr_0qpcmRNi_d5JO1len25DEuWJuaFIc0-jabYgJPK_wONL4kmwur_GbGyL_ACUpb7b9iGivTnATn_NOinaC1cv1n9ZOa7Ihrm8_SJssKjBPL_qw02wiSYxso4AHo/s320/8E1B66A3-C168-4751-8C33-A2564ED96DAA.webp" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Being practiced for well over a century, male infant circumcision has become culturally ingrained in American society. For some, having been circumcised at an American hospital has become a token of being<i> “American.”</i> A person may be circumcised, a spouse or lover of a circumcised man, or a father or mother of circumcised children, so one may be compelled to justify the practice of male infant circumcision out of personal conviction. No one wants to think something is wrong with their penis, their lover’s penis, or the penises of their children, so someone who comes from such a background may have a cultural bias to present male infant circumcision as being “beneficial,” or to downplay or even deny any risks or negatives attending the procedure.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaLKICPHwOpiv8RWKQJCFJ-6MLo0H4PVXtzl1sDpYKc-T2y_3sBys3RT_SU1uHn6xKqf0FFJyt5NkZZtmVnX_31Mp44rigM0Z4_s7LxWX1tForLqDzil9qee2fF3pkcHx-nYiOjpAYLXdlTG9iDUNEpGBpIwoQlSLcxaAhWFAJl0naT-9_TN71fv-JdQ/s1024/IMG_0862.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1017" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaLKICPHwOpiv8RWKQJCFJ-6MLo0H4PVXtzl1sDpYKc-T2y_3sBys3RT_SU1uHn6xKqf0FFJyt5NkZZtmVnX_31Mp44rigM0Z4_s7LxWX1tForLqDzil9qee2fF3pkcHx-nYiOjpAYLXdlTG9iDUNEpGBpIwoQlSLcxaAhWFAJl0naT-9_TN71fv-JdQ/s320/IMG_0862.jpeg" width="318" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">Aesop’s Fox Without a Tail tried convincing the other foxes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">that having a tail was cumbersome and having it cut off was best.</span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Cultural inertia wouldn’t be limited to the United States; while circumcision is performed routinely in male infants in American hospitals, circumcision is also practiced as an initiation rite in various countries in Africa, and it is performed on prepubescent minors in Muslim countries, such as Turkey, Malaysia and Indonesia. Physicians from a background where circumcision is either a cultural norm or religious practice may be at odds in presenting full or accurate information, and may actually attempt to gear parents in favor of the practice. </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Biased Researchers Produce Biased Research</span></b></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">As I've demonstrated, there is an inherent bias in doctors who defend or perform male infant circumcision. Reaping profit from it, having a religious conviction, or merely coming from a culture where circumcision is seen as a norm may already compel doctors to only present “research” or “evidence” that confirms their allegations of “medical benefit,” while downplaying or even denying research showing the risks and detriments of male infant circumcision. But what about the research used to support the practice of male infant circumcision itself? Who is writing it? Who is publishing it?</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span>More often than not, circumcision "researchers" happen to have the same conflicts of interests I talk about above, and it raises questions. Can “researchers” with these conflicts of interest be trusted to publish objective, neutral, unbiased, dispassionate information? Are they looking</span><span> find the best solutions to medical problems? Or rather, are they looking to establish male infant circumcision, as the </span><i>"solution"</i><span> to whatever medical problem they're "researching?" Could we trust them to publish research that shows circumcision might have negative effects?</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span>There is a problem when “researchers” with a personal conviction to justify a practice are in a position of deciding what gets published. They are loathe to publish adverse outcomes and any negative effects of male infant circumcision, and more than happy to publish positive results and “benefits.” Their duty to science and intellectual honesty would be compromised by personal belief or conviction, which means the composite picture that medical literature on the topic may not be accurate. </span><span>It should be to no one's surprise that much of the circumcision “research” cited by physicians who circumcise infants, just happens to be written by authors who are predominantly American or Jewish.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><div>Circumcision advocates often cite the latest African trials and tried to advocate circumcision as HIV prevention policy in general. And wouldn’t you have it, the idea that circumcision could prevent HIV transmission was invented by none other than <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/04/circumcision-research-rehashed-findings.html">Aaron J. Fink</a> in 1986.</div><div><br /></div><div><blockquote><i>"I suspect that men in the United States, who, as compared with those in Africa and elsewhere, have had less acquisition of AIDS, have benefited from the high rate of newborn circumcision in the United States… this is nothing I can prove."</i> ~Aaron J. Fink</blockquote><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><div><br /></div><div>And speaking of pushing circumcision as HIV prevention, Daniel T. Halperin, Ph.D., has published several papers on circumcision for HIV prevention, which are being used by the World Health Organization to endorse circumcision as an HIV prevention method. He’s not exactly shy about hiding his Jewish heritage as a conflict of interest, and has even openly flaunted it. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBAcbrMD2ObeNjVU0IVJtm_Y1D37jZ_FbC9F-X7pfC3snkdOVFDm65xjfi4rK8xzqApegbLgS7qtNXCx0PmlOVMmz4mPsoN5JnHZbBi1W3Vr1MRHLKV7njm7ThquJZjhcY_q_FgrOl7mBPx8kxp0Rq61GHxqT6Q8OyrA1XspoeKWw2YUEpNkcWHGf-Ag/s289/IMG_0859.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="199" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBAcbrMD2ObeNjVU0IVJtm_Y1D37jZ_FbC9F-X7pfC3snkdOVFDm65xjfi4rK8xzqApegbLgS7qtNXCx0PmlOVMmz4mPsoN5JnHZbBi1W3Vr1MRHLKV7njm7ThquJZjhcY_q_FgrOl7mBPx8kxp0Rq61GHxqT6Q8OyrA1XspoeKWw2YUEpNkcWHGf-Ag/w138-h200/IMG_0859.jpeg" width="138" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>When asked by Gordy Slack of the <i>East Bay Express</i> if his being Jewish factored into his work on circumcision. Halperin replied:</div></span><blockquote><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: italic;">No. At least it didn't during the first couple of years I was doing research. I didn't think about the Jewish part at all. I'd vaguely heard about a guy in Boston who does a non-cutting ritual bris, and maybe that would have appealed to me, if I had a boy someday. But in recent years<u> the Judaism aspect has crept in now and then</u>. Some </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: italic;">doctors, for example, an oncologist in northeastern Brazil who has to amputate cancerous penises every week, would tell me not knowing that I was Jewish, '<u><b>Those Jews were so smart; thousands of years ago they figured out this way to prevent health problems</b></u>.' That was one of the things that began to spin my head around from thinking of this as a savage ritual from the dark past to thinking of it as maybe a kind of health/cultural innovation ahead of its time... <u>So I guess it has made me appreciate my own heritage more. And who knows, maybe <b>finding out to my surprise that my own granddad was an occasional </b></u></span><b><u><i>mohel</i></u></b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><i><b><u> was a weird kind of confirmation that I'm maybe in some small way 'destined' to help pass along this health benefit to people in parts of the world where it could really make a difference and perhaps save many lives</u></b>. ~</i>Daniel Halperin</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><br /></blockquote><p></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Daniel Halperin works together with other circumcision “researchers” to promote male infant circumcision as disease prophylaxis. One of the prominent figures in that group is Robert Bailey, who wrote one the papers being used by the WHO to promote male circumcision in Africa.</p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif9ywuKN2dBe5OJqeBqcOrDwhYxiHb7LoJjeIB-vB-AAIpRdsUO82xXomrAansaWvnyPMyS9m_e7G44KX4l8QigtOHq8mPFhRfx9EFNG2lYOZFcqflMuKBH6Mn9Aatrx0RmrM1efeAhzzM34dJyChcIxmOjQHa-kH-bDq8VXyuRGcFlbTBgx-qIy7Cfg/s245/IMG_0861.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="245" data-original-width="200" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif9ywuKN2dBe5OJqeBqcOrDwhYxiHb7LoJjeIB-vB-AAIpRdsUO82xXomrAansaWvnyPMyS9m_e7G44KX4l8QigtOHq8mPFhRfx9EFNG2lYOZFcqflMuKBH6Mn9Aatrx0RmrM1efeAhzzM34dJyChcIxmOjQHa-kH-bDq8VXyuRGcFlbTBgx-qIy7Cfg/s1600/IMG_0861.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Bailey is an example of a circumcision “researcher” that promotes male circumcision who is not Jewish, but he is American, where 80% of all males are circumcised. There is no doubt he himself is circumcised and comes from a culture where circumcision is culturally ingrained, so his bias comes into question.</p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Another prominent circumcision advocate who is in that circle of circumcision promoters is Brian Morris.</p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWDc_e34jv8SIbrlImDxphR92-b7tJBAkkGH-ID79iNkC7e1wDPfLalFIpfci3zo7geQJXM0rol1tcD4CMEE6IYNgYueCrWKkgiLFbf7kj0tKXHwrL0od95X64mOnApyprGeQ5EOTP553TMMaKR4dsfDkbmZeFZrXuiF2FhQ1h7rU2llqSo95gfpHQTg/s600/brian%20morris.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="483" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWDc_e34jv8SIbrlImDxphR92-b7tJBAkkGH-ID79iNkC7e1wDPfLalFIpfci3zo7geQJXM0rol1tcD4CMEE6IYNgYueCrWKkgiLFbf7kj0tKXHwrL0od95X64mOnApyprGeQ5EOTP553TMMaKR4dsfDkbmZeFZrXuiF2FhQ1h7rU2llqSo95gfpHQTg/w161-h200/brian%20morris.jpg" width="161" /></a></div><br /><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">He’s not Jewish or American, but he’s Australian and he comes from a generation where circumcision was practiced routinely in Australia. In addition to trying to promote circumcision in Australia and to convince the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) to make male infant circumcision mandatory for all boys born in Australia, where circumcision has long since stopped being routine, he’s part of that group of <i>“researchers”</i> that is constantly publishing works in hopes that medical organizations around the world would promote male infant circumcision as a universal, compulsory practice.</p></div></span></div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">To conclude this section, it ought to be obvious by now, that circumcision advocated and performed by, "research" that shows circumcision is "beneficial" is written and published by people with the unstated interests of financial gain, religious or personal conviction, for which <i>"medical benefits"</i> is a superficial pretext.<br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">No Medical Basis</span></b></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Few people are aware, but the medical case for male infant circumcision, the one pillar on which it all is supposed to rest, has but long collapsed. The problem with the argument of <i>“potential medical benefits”</i> for circumcision is that even if we take these claims and the studies that support them at face-value, they aren’t even enough for medical organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to recommend for all males. In fact, not a single respected medical organization in the world does.<br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></b></p><div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;">In 2012, the American Academy of Pediatrics released their then-latest <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2012/08/aap-around-bush-and-closer-to-nowhere.html">policy statement on male infant circumcision</a>. The AAP’s so-called <i>“circumcision taskforce”</i> took upon themselves the arduous task of reviewing the entirety of medical literature revolving around male infant circumcision, this would include all the works published by <i>“researchers”</i> mentioned above, and much to the chagrin of many a male infant circumcision advocate, stopped short of the one thing they were hoping the AAP would do; issue a recommendation that male infant circumcision be universally recommended for all male children.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s2">Though the AAP littered their policy statement with the mantra <i>"the benefits of male infant circumcision outweigh the risks," </i>in the end, the AAP circumcision taskforce couldn’t commit to a recommendation based on all the medical literature. Indeed, they couldn’t and they can’t. </span><span class="s2">The trend of opinion on routine male circumcision is overwhelmingly
negative in industrialized nations. No respected medical board
recommends the circumcision of infants, not even in the name of HIV
prevention. They must all point to the risks, and they must all state
that there is no convincing evidence that the benefits outweigh these
risks. To do otherwise would be to take an unfounded position against
the best medical authorities of the West.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><i>"The benefits of male infant circumcision outweigh the risks"</i> was repeated enough times that it was the only part of the 2012 policy statement male infant circumcision advocates could remember. Drowned out by this mantra was the conclusion that <i>"the benefits of male infant circumcision aren’t great enough to recommend it,"</i> and overlooked remains the admission that <i>"the true incidence of complications after circumcision remain unknown."</i> The mantra that <i>"the benefits of male infant circumcision outweigh the risks"</i> collapses at the foot of these clauses alone, for <i>"benefits"</i>, that aren’t enough to recommend male infant circumcision mind you, can’t <i>"outweigh the risks"</i> if those risks remain unknown.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy06iWIbtZvCf2dQq_W0_hUOygvx7vZnmFCG5J0fT5UjpRpmSzL0usQfB3vobjM_G8jYv_s5Z5ArQSUjVZyfGrwCwT-6TA3fUWuSb49SIb9X84xkne3RsUqbHfjqE0Pg_ES8UqS6L57KM/s1599/balance.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1085" data-original-width="1599" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy06iWIbtZvCf2dQq_W0_hUOygvx7vZnmFCG5J0fT5UjpRpmSzL0usQfB3vobjM_G8jYv_s5Z5ArQSUjVZyfGrwCwT-6TA3fUWuSb49SIb9X84xkne3RsUqbHfjqE0Pg_ES8UqS6L57KM/w400-h271/balance.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s2">Still, the 2012 taskforce on male infant circumcision dared to conclude the AAP Policy Statement on male infant circumcision with the suggestion that </span><i>"Parents ultimately should decide whether circumcision is in the best interests of their male child.</i><i> They will need to weigh medical information in the context of their own <u>religious</u>, ethical, and <u>cultural beliefs and practices</u>."</i></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;">In other words, while experts at the AAP couldn’t recommend male infant circumcision based on their review of the entirety of medical literature, parents are expected to weigh the same evidence, and somehow come to a more reasonable conclusion. How this conclusion can be considered "reasonable,"<i> "in the context of their own religious, ethical and cultural beliefs and practices,"</i> and how American physicians are expected to perform non-medical surgery on healthy minors based on said conclusion is beyond me. By definition, religious and cultural beliefs are beyond reason.<br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s2">If the medical benefits of male infant circumcision aren’t enough to recommend the circumcision of healthy, non-consenting minors, that is pretty much where the purview of medical experts should end.<i> </i>If the 2012 AAP circumcision policy statement is supposed to mean anything, then where <i>"medical benefits" </i>aren't enough, <i>"religious and cultural beliefs"</i> are supposed to take over, and this simply doesn't make any sense. </span><span class="s2"><span class="s2">A doctor’s duty is to medicine, not <i>"religious, cultural beliefs and practices."</i></span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;">If a doctor is expected to perform elective, cosmetic surgery on healthy, non-consenting minors based purely on <i>"religious beliefs," "cultural considerations"</i> and a conclusion contrary to their own, can they be expected to perform other kinds of surgery? If doctors are expected to circumcise a baby boy based on <i>"religious and cultural beliefs"</i> and a parents' conclusion on medical benefits, why couldn't they be expected to circumcise a baby girl?</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><i> </i><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;">The logic falls apart.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;">It falls apart, and this reveals a glaringly obvious, self-serving double standard; <i>"religious and cultural beliefs"</i>, at least in the West, justify male infant circumcision only. The authors of the 2012 AAP statement are banking on male infant circumcision being a cultural norm that a majority of parents already agree with, and that many physicians already reap profit from performing. Without <i>"religious and cultural beliefs"</i> to carry them through, "experts" at the American Academy of Pediatrics have absolutely no medical basis to stand on.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><i><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;">"The benefits of male infant circumcision are not great enough to recommend male infant circumcision."</span></i></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;">End of story.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWI6lyJv_ZzFYccg50UbOEhYrWnJ0GmS6aPZ0TbW4qiDIpiBfipDNM_EYv7EMqg1uSHx7m61OIXC1kFKeL2ke7vIQ7pF91YOBi9kFVLhojeXr4MjPzZFtl-MCE7l9W2BaY5SitTDHk_Mk/s2048/A3A2F0B0-130A-4378-AE1F-D59271A04735.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1403" data-original-width="2048" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWI6lyJv_ZzFYccg50UbOEhYrWnJ0GmS6aPZ0TbW4qiDIpiBfipDNM_EYv7EMqg1uSHx7m61OIXC1kFKeL2ke7vIQ7pF91YOBi9kFVLhojeXr4MjPzZFtl-MCE7l9W2BaY5SitTDHk_Mk/w400-h274/A3A2F0B0-130A-4378-AE1F-D59271A04735.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><span class="s2"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>US Circumcision Arguments Hinge on "Religious Freedom" and "Parental Choice"</b><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">As I have just demonstrated, there is no medical basis for American physicians, or any physician whatever, performing male infant circumcision on healthy newborns. The medical basis fails, which is why experts at the AAP aim to transform the argument, shifting the onus of professional responsibility away from themselves, and onto parents, making it about<i> "religious freedom and parental choice,"</i> as opposed to "medical necessity and professional responsibility." In essence, the argument is <i>"I am blameless; the parents made me do it. Who am I to judge religious belief?"</i> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Parental Choice is Not Absolute</span></b></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Circumcision advocates will have you believe that “parental choice” justifies male infant circumcision. After all, parents can pierce their daughter’s ears can they not? And they decide what clothes they wear, what food they eat, what school they go to and what religion they’ll follow. If parents can decide to cut off a child’s hair, it only follows they can decide to cut off their male children’s foreskin. The parents decide. It’s how it works, right? But does that work in any case? Is “parental choice” absolute?</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: small;">First, while it is true that parents make all decisions concerning a child's well-being, it is also true that being a parent is not the end-all/be-all on whether or not decisions concerning them are justified.</span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span> </span></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: small;">A parent will go to jail if he or she decides to <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374039/Georgia-man-Eugene-Ashley-sentenced-tattooing-Daddys-Boy-2-year-old-son.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">tattoo their child</a>, for example. This has already happened multiple times. There is one instance in <a href="https://abc30.com/archive/7502941/">Fresno, CA</a>, and another in </span><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2016/06/alabama-mother-busted-for-tattooing-son.html">Alabama</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: small;">, where the mother not only tattooed her son, she also tried trading him for drugs.</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); clear: both; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLMiIZQq_OcyZYwn5rTEP-43PKVGv4QwDP-r6P9bSvf5FK__CojIjagxLH9M6GbBZYRlAuvrgf22nbixTJ8O49ugwRabkaeMN8FzECebU6l8Bz_f6SvNvFCHLfsNYTrY9_mIlNS6B7unI/s1600/my+child+my+choice.jpg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLMiIZQq_OcyZYwn5rTEP-43PKVGv4QwDP-r6P9bSvf5FK__CojIjagxLH9M6GbBZYRlAuvrgf22nbixTJ8O49ugwRabkaeMN8FzECebU6l8Bz_f6SvNvFCHLfsNYTrY9_mIlNS6B7unI/s400/my+child+my+choice.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="305" /></span></a></div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">One mother lost custody of her daughter for deciding to </span><a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2011/05/pageant-mom-loses-8yo-daughter-over.html" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">inject botox into her face</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"> for a beauty pageant. <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2016/06/las-vegas-parents-in-hot-water-after.html">In Las Vegas</a>, a couple got in trouble for modifying their child’s ears to look like a member of the fictitious Hylia people in the Legend of Zelda video game series. </span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM36HVRSbxktii0jpVNg5TOa8VQfJfWZj69mvAtkABU-PC4p5jJEs-wEZkkYRpPhkgQ5ho70xlEFsjSUoNraiqMdGyL-KytAfbgJ2n1Fzrib9IpFVN8qGP80j4jWtBjBlT4eUlRYnAJpPGskOuUZErUCT63jXA_LPCUijq9VPTBwjO_YFIsGp6-5Ii8A/s600/Baby%20Link%20Ears.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="600" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM36HVRSbxktii0jpVNg5TOa8VQfJfWZj69mvAtkABU-PC4p5jJEs-wEZkkYRpPhkgQ5ho70xlEFsjSUoNraiqMdGyL-KytAfbgJ2n1Fzrib9IpFVN8qGP80j4jWtBjBlT4eUlRYnAJpPGskOuUZErUCT63jXA_LPCUijq9VPTBwjO_YFIsGp6-5Ii8A/s320/Baby%20Link%20Ears.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">In some states, parents will </span><a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2015/10/oregon-couple-face-prison-for-denying.html" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">face prison if they deny urgent medical care to a child</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">. </span><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2017/03/fgm-ethiopian-man-deported-for-cutting.html" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Parents in the United States cannot get away</a> with performing any form of genital cutting on their daughters<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">, and there is no exempt for religious or cultural practice.</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: small;">There is also long-standing legal precedent that says parents are not free to do whatever it is with their child by mere virtue that they are parents.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: small;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_v._Massachusetts" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Prince vs. Massachusetts</a> court decision states: </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /></span></p><blockquote style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">"The family itself is not beyond regulation in the public interest, as against a claim of religious liberty. And neither the rights of religion nor the rights of parenthood are beyond limitation…The right to practice religion freely does not include the right to expose the community or the child to communicable disease or the latter to ill-health or death...</span></i></blockquote><blockquote style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i></i><i>Parents may be free to become martyrs themselves. But it does not follow they are free, in identical circumstances, to make martyrs of their children before they have reached the age of full and legal discretion when they can make that choice for themselves. Massachusetts has determined that an absolute prohibition, though one limited to streets and public places and to the incidental uses proscribed, is necessary to accomplish its legitimate objectives. Its power to attain them is broad enough to reach these peripheral instances in which the parent's supervision may reduce but cannot eliminate entirely the ill effects of the prohibited conduct. We think that with reference to the public proclaiming of religion, upon the streets and in other similar public places, the power of the state to control the conduct of children reaches beyond the scope of its authority over adults, as is true in the case of other freedoms, and the rightful boundary of its power has not been crossed in this case."</i></span></blockquote><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></b></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">“It’s The Parent’s Choice”</span></b></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Physicians who perform male infant circumcision are talking from both sides of their mouths. On the one hand, they claim to be experts in their field, demanding they be called by their title of “doctor” by others, often flaunting the fact that they went to school for years to earn it. On the other hand, simultaneously, they want to make it appear as if they are obedient slaves to parents who demand that their male children be circumcised. And yet this delusion falls apart if the same logic is applied to other cases.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">If a parent could ask a doctor to cut off part of a boy's penis, then doesn’t it follow that parents can ask the doctor to cut off part of a girl's vulva <i>“just because they are the parent and they make the decisions?”</i> If a parent asks the doctor to do any of the things mentioned above, why shouldn’t they comply?</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGKQAxcprAS-JXdC1RhTT7wAzuUbHBllKuSh06YWRI3qVLGba9JUfvHt1NAvPVE7_TEgtNquEg2KLxz7qUa7mRZujmDpZNmB4cwivD1KnYHheSLuxmdh7TGV_g_qgXGI5qTDghwLHhvPgPGbiO4cM18821VVFog7RfbflnAwiE2qEZCZiBp2AZqSIbZg/s300/IMG_0864.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGKQAxcprAS-JXdC1RhTT7wAzuUbHBllKuSh06YWRI3qVLGba9JUfvHt1NAvPVE7_TEgtNquEg2KLxz7qUa7mRZujmDpZNmB4cwivD1KnYHheSLuxmdh7TGV_g_qgXGI5qTDghwLHhvPgPGbiO4cM18821VVFog7RfbflnAwiE2qEZCZiBp2AZqSIbZg/s1600/IMG_0864.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">“I want to remove my daughter’s labia.</span></i></div><p></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">She’s my daughter. I’m the parent, and I decide.”</span></i></div><p></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">I think that we can agree, we ought to agree, that<i> “parental choice”</i> is not absolute, and crossing that line constitutes abuse. But where is that line?</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">My take is that, parents should have “parental choice” as much as they’re not violating that child’s basic human rights. A parent has no right to demand a doctor administer non-medical treatment or surgery to a healthy, non-consenting child. And a doctor has every duty to reject such demands.<br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Circumcision is an exception. An anomaly. It is the only instance in medicine where a doctor is allowed to perform surgery on a healthy, non-consenting child based purely on the whims of the parents, without any medical diagnosis. All other surgery demands there be a medical indication, and surgery is usually a last resort, where all other methods of treatment have failed.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">The bottom line is that a doctor's professional duty is to medicine, not parental whim. Without medical or clinical indication, doctors have no business performing surgery on healthy, non-consenting minors, let alone be offering parents any kind of <i>"choice"</i> in the matter. </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7V51FYiuyjsfYlpyW8XcBbW2X_d9yv84rFKh6OxWHRgXN-L4tG_nc0bqqysDc9XI9nfLF_oZJkB8saFr99mVa5N43F9j2JZx8DFd9j_w6tyxgATop22Njw4hHGrYifWdaAyI6KhWHK4c/s2048/9B032E80-D7C3-4313-8D02-58A8E659EEED.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1403" data-original-width="2048" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7V51FYiuyjsfYlpyW8XcBbW2X_d9yv84rFKh6OxWHRgXN-L4tG_nc0bqqysDc9XI9nfLF_oZJkB8saFr99mVa5N43F9j2JZx8DFd9j_w6tyxgATop22Njw4hHGrYifWdaAyI6KhWHK4c/w400-h274/9B032E80-D7C3-4313-8D02-58A8E659EEED.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><b></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">"Religious Freedom” is an Excuse, not Medicine</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>“Religious freedom”</i> is connected to the <i>“parental choice”</i> argument. It makes American physicians that reap profit from cutting off the foreskins of babies sound virtuous to say that they do this “<i>to honor parents’ wishes</i>” and “<i>religious freedom</i>,” but these are not a substitute for a medical diagnosis and medical indication for surgery. At the end of the day, this is merely posturing to cover for the fact that doctors are trying to get away with performing surgery on a healthy, non-consenting child.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: times;">In 2012, the AAP cited a parent’s <i>“religious, ethical ad cultural beliefs and practices”</i> as considerations for doctors circumcising healthy, non-consenting children.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times;"><i>“Parents ultimately should decide whether circumcision is in the best interests of their male child. They will need to weigh medical information in the context of their own religious, ethical, and cultural beliefs and practices. The medical benefits alone may not outweigh these other considerations for individual families.” ~AAP 2012</i></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>The very AAP concluded that</span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"> </span><span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">the</span><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"> “benefits”</i><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"> of circumcision were </span><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">“not enough to recommend the procedure.”</i><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"> In the same 2012 policy statement, they said that </span><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">“the true incidence of complications after newborn circumcision is unknown.” </i></span><span>How parents who never went to medical school are suddenly more qualified than physicians who went to school for years to earn the title of “Doctor” to decide whether or not surgery on a healthy, non-consenting child is needed or not, and how doctors are expected or even allowed to comply escapes me.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Doctors are physicians who deal in MEDICINE, not religious belief or superstition. There is no medical indication to circumcise a healthy, non-consenting child, full stop. How far are doctors expected to comply with a parent’s request for surgery based on their “<i>Religious, ethical and cultural beliefs and practices?</i>”</span></p><div><span style="font-family: times;">Female infant circumcision, or <i>"sunat,"</i> as it is also known, is a common procedure in South East Asian countries, such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Singapore. Upward from 96% of the female Indonesian population has undergone <i>"sunat"</i> of some kind.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgne6trn7YpWbWpCOX0ABaD09Ij-0eS4zZTfc_G_RhkEuGJvoRq57ohFhboOZUaVT0eoLo87Oyhqd-091DAZ3SzBVaKvqNCq0IL6R7nhHoupUkJ0-eFWkzvx8EzcLGfgeW3h0FlM_aTQ6E/s940/female+sunat.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="940" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgne6trn7YpWbWpCOX0ABaD09Ij-0eS4zZTfc_G_RhkEuGJvoRq57ohFhboOZUaVT0eoLo87Oyhqd-091DAZ3SzBVaKvqNCq0IL6R7nhHoupUkJ0-eFWkzvx8EzcLGfgeW3h0FlM_aTQ6E/w400-h219/female+sunat.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <span><span style="font-size: x-small;">A child being prepared to get "sunat," as her Muslim parents have chosen</span><br /></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">For better or for worse, it is seen as a religious requirement, a <a href="https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2018/11/431411/female-circumcision-part-malaysian-culture-says-dpm">cultural tradition</a>, and a "parental choice."</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbqedOMsP0K2gSMvGq1ktR-z4jozrIpy1HAS2H4B-eT4a-Kl3VPiWBvyDxcAgr3SBvVtwhnURjHhyphenhyphen4mGEyUEKoWpJjH8RsI6HtQ3nY99Ab4QxE4vZ9VYi4Iah7e7uZcYjSKzBBtQ_hkxGlF8o9nnSkh1sr4A5ZIgoXiaVV1q6FeDIaizsn_C5RAy2jmw/s1149/IMG_0854.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1149" data-original-width="1043" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbqedOMsP0K2gSMvGq1ktR-z4jozrIpy1HAS2H4B-eT4a-Kl3VPiWBvyDxcAgr3SBvVtwhnURjHhyphenhyphen4mGEyUEKoWpJjH8RsI6HtQ3nY99Ab4QxE4vZ9VYi4Iah7e7uZcYjSKzBBtQ_hkxGlF8o9nnSkh1sr4A5ZIgoXiaVV1q6FeDIaizsn_C5RAy2jmw/s320/IMG_0854.jpeg" width="290" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>"Sunat"</i> is often performed by physicians, and consented to by parents. When it comes to male infant circumcision, <i>"religion"</i> and <i>"parental choice"</i> are cited as alibis by American doctors who perform it. So how far are doctors expected to comply with a parent’s request for surgery based on their “<i>Religious, ethical and cultural beliefs and practices?</i>”</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times;">If a doctor can circumcise a boy, not based on any “medical evidence” that it’s necessary, but based on non-medical arguments of <i>“religious practice,”</i> <i>“cultural custom”</i> and/or<i> </i><i>“parental choice”</i>, then does it not follow that a doctor can, and is obliged to circumcise a girl, because for better or for worse, it’s part of a few million parents’ cultural beliefs, religious customs, they’re the parents, and they decide?</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Or does this only apply to male infant circumcision?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>The bottom line is that a doctor's duty is to medicine. </span><span>Without medical or clinical indication, doctors have no business performing surgery on healthy, non-consenting individuals, let alone giving parents any kind of “choice”. </span><span>“</span><i>Religious, ethical and cultural beliefs and practices</i><span>” are immaterial. </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: times;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmtKgYYH_3f17eM13v4pyL6jvfuyesc_5pXvIEwiJimTbMAbyJPcgzGBKOe69EJf4zeqvIC8iXy3PQSvnQWRZ6Z9wZHvutEeCpwHQ3IlmD1u97N0Y2tW9MwnsRUnHN6NhUq_X_2QLnDt8/s2048/88303A3F-7C36-459F-9A57-144978191353.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="2048" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmtKgYYH_3f17eM13v4pyL6jvfuyesc_5pXvIEwiJimTbMAbyJPcgzGBKOe69EJf4zeqvIC8iXy3PQSvnQWRZ6Z9wZHvutEeCpwHQ3IlmD1u97N0Y2tW9MwnsRUnHN6NhUq_X_2QLnDt8/w400-h274/88303A3F-7C36-459F-9A57-144978191353.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: times;">Conclusion</span></b></div><span style="font-family: times;">So there you have it.</span><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">That’s it.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">If logic and reason mean anything, male infant circumcision as defended by the American medical establishment stands completely demolished in front of you. I have demonstrated how every last alibi used by American doctors in defense of male infant circumcision ultimately fails. </span><span style="font-family: times;">
It is professionally irresponsible, not to mention unethical medical
fraud, to be reaping profit from performing surgery on healthy,
non-consenting minors based on "parental decision" or "religious
belief." </span><span style="font-family: times;">Unless there is clear medical indication, doctors have no business performing male infant circumcision on infants, let alone be offering parents any kind of “choice.” Religious belief and cultural traditions do not, and cannot have any bearing in a medical setting, where doctors are expected to practice medicine. </span><span style="font-family: times;">It
should now be painfully obvious that male infant circumcision is nothing more than a
modern-day medical scam based on pseudo-medicine, religious superstition
and cultural inertia.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt5eRYuc7KcJJhJVYcG7b4b5ttSWfmBztmhPWG_37N5bU0EjwVbgYN6GYgSRg_n3qS7YDGtB-CL3KBF6zbm641L9SawkNttPComR4Dt5LXZFzcPItTPytypqNXB-44IEYkB7ulEZlatwI/s2048/032C2713-4301-49B5-B706-A9A35A589E2D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1389" data-original-width="2048" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt5eRYuc7KcJJhJVYcG7b4b5ttSWfmBztmhPWG_37N5bU0EjwVbgYN6GYgSRg_n3qS7YDGtB-CL3KBF6zbm641L9SawkNttPComR4Dt5LXZFzcPItTPytypqNXB-44IEYkB7ulEZlatwI/s320/032C2713-4301-49B5-B706-A9A35A589E2D.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: times;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Mission Statement</b><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">The foreskin is not a birth defect. Neither is it a congenital deformity or genetic anomaly akin to a 6th finger or a cleft. Neither is it a medical condition like a ruptured appendix or diseased gall bladder. Neither is it a dead part of the body, like the umbilical cord, hair, or fingernails.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">The foreskin is not <i>"extra skin."</i> The foreskin is normal, natural, healthy, functioning tissue, present in all males at birth; it is as intrinsic to male genitalia as labia are to female genitalia.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Unless there is a medical or clinical indication, the circumcision of a healthy, non-consenting individual is a deliberate wound; it is the destruction of normal, healthy tissue, the permanent disfigurement of normal, healthy organs, and by very definition, infant genital mutilation, and a violation of the most basic of human rights.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Without medical or clinical indication, doctors have absolutely no business performing surgery in healthy, non-consenting individuals, much less be eliciting any kind of "decision" from parents.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">In any other case, reaping profit from non-medical procedures on non-consenting individuals constitutes medical fraud.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Genital integrity, autonomy and self-determination are inalienable human rights. I am against the forced circumcision of healthy, non-consenting minors because it violates these rights.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /></span></p><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Genital mutilation, whether it be wrapped in culture, religion or “research” is still genital mutilation.</b><br /><br /><b>It is mistaken, the belief that the right amount of “science” can be used to legitimize the deliberate violation of basic human rights.</b></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">DISCLAIMER: </b><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">I speak out against the forced circumcision of healthy, non-consenting minors in any way, shape or form. I make no exception for "religion" nor "cultural practice" of any kind. Please do not conflate my disdain for the forced circumcision of minors with a belittlement of circumcised men, or a hate for Jews.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">In this blog I criticize circumcision advocates and expose information about them that is not always revealed to the public. Some may argue that I am engaging in ad hominem. However, I'm only pointing out conflicts of interest, and this is not ad hominem. The following is an excerpt from Wikipedia's entry on ad hominem (4/22/2012):</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"></b><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><b>Conflict of Interest</b>: Where a source seeks to convince by a claim of authority or by personal observation, <u>identification of conflicts of interest are not </u></i><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><u>ad hominem </u>– it is generally well accepted that <u>an "authority" needs to be objective and impartial, and that an audience can only evaluate information from a source if they know about conflicts of interest that may affect the objectivity of the source</u>. <b><u>Identification of a conflict of interest is appropriate, and concealment of a conflict of interest is a problem</u>.</b></i><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">The views I express in this blog are my own individual opinion, and they do not necessarily reflect the views of all intactivists. I am but an individual with one opinion, and I do not pretend to speak for the intactivist movement as a whole, thank you.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">~Joseph4GI</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span class="s2" style="font-family: times;">Related Posts:</span></b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2016/08/edgar-schoen-americas-circumcision.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: times;"><u>EDGAR SCHOEN: America's Circumcision Champion Dies</u></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: times; font-size: small;"><u></u></span><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2021/04/daniel-barnz-mocks-french-and-intact.html">Daniel Barnz Mocks the French and Intact Men on HBO Max's "Generation"</a></span></span></h3></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/02/intactivism-its-not-just-for-gentiles.html"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">Intactivism: It's Not Just for Gentiles Anymore
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margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2018/11/431411/female-circumcision-part-malaysian-culture-says-dpm"><span style="font-family: times;">Female circumcision part of Malaysian culture, says DPM</span></a><br /></p></div></div>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-64033321857869300272022-06-15T14:01:00.000-07:002022-06-15T14:01:13.260-07:00Matt Walsh Should Be an Intactivist<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_XcXe4fBTfhu146g4ndfbaswcTWh42t_VoWlj8K_gJTRiyb6qQT2t_FeXWq_nMHNN1X4tov1qY3feon2PlTtvTSGvXUwLlJMUvGRTKDbgVuYPJBchaKN7jw5zsRSTANSIpiIrGKzJhBMEfe2hXrE6st9ceVQYAnkVMFRB0sEwyC8aqP6DTccqoCg/s1280/mwalsh.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_XcXe4fBTfhu146g4ndfbaswcTWh42t_VoWlj8K_gJTRiyb6qQT2t_FeXWq_nMHNN1X4tov1qY3feon2PlTtvTSGvXUwLlJMUvGRTKDbgVuYPJBchaKN7jw5zsRSTANSIpiIrGKzJhBMEfe2hXrE6st9ceVQYAnkVMFRB0sEwyC8aqP6DTccqoCg/w400-h225/mwalsh.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>I've been following Matt Walsh for a while now.</p><p>Why?</p><p>Because, although I know he is unpopular, particularly in leftist circles, he makes some very interesting points concerning children and their bodily autonomy.</p><p>From the get go, I want to make it clear that I do not agree with every single point Matt Walsh makes. He and I disagree on gun control, for instance. He believes there should be zero sex education in schools. He believes that nobody, even consenting adults, should be allowed to transition socially or medically.</p><p>Where he and I tend to agree is pushing back on this idea that children can give informed consent to be put on puberty blockers, such as Lupron, and that teens who aren't yet of the age of majority, can consent to life-altering surgery, such as double mastectomy and genital surgery.</p><p>*MY* stance in all of this parallels my views on male infant circumcision; a child cannot give informed consent to elective, cosmetic, permanent, irreversible surgery that radically changes the mechanics of his genitals for the rest of his life. An adult man who is of age of consent, however, should have the right to choose to get circumcised, if indeed, that's what he wants. <br /></p><p>Matt and I diverge on this point; he believes that NO ONE should be allowed to alter their bodies radically, EVER. To which I say, at some point, you're going to have to let adults make their own decisions. I fully support an adult person's right to live as they want, and alter their body as they see fit. This includes circumcision, as well as surgery to alter one's genitals radically and even double-mastectomy. It's none of Matt's, or anyone else's business what a person wants to do to their body to live life as they want.<br /></p><p>Matt Walsh has recently released a documentary called "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42ivIRd9N8E&t=3s">What is a Woman</a>?" where he questions gender ideology and the <i>"affirmative treatment"</i> of children, and it's causing waves on social media. Of course there are people who don't want you to see it. Some people don't want you to watch <a href="https://circumcisionmovie.com/">American Circumcision</a> <i>"because it's full of antisemitic hate."</i> However, in my opinion, there being people who don't want you to see something is even all the more reason why people SHOULD see it.</p><p>Arguments stand or fall on their own. If Matt's arguments are weak, they'll be refuted. If they're not, then people will have to consider his points. The fact that people desperately want you to NOT see it, attack Matt with accusations of <i>"transphobia"</i> and <i>"bigotry"</i>, before even watching the film, tells you that maybe, just maybe, the man might have something important to say. I see people attacking Matt as a <i>"transphobic bigot"</i> as no different than people attacking intactivists as <i>"<a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/06/anti-semite-card-no-longer-washes.html">antisemitic nazis</a>."</i> All empty ad hominem meant to discredit and distract from the points being made. <br /></p><p>Intactivists, I ask, what do we think about the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), or any other American medical institution that promotes the "medical benefits of male infant circumcision"? The CDC? The AMA? We insist that they're wrong because they <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/03/out-of-line-aap-circumcision-policy.html">contradict the consensus of medical institutions around the world</a>; that male infant circumcision is unnecessary, and may even be harmful.</p><p>Matt Walsh is in a similar position; he stands and questions medical organizations who promote the idea that children who are gender non-conforming should be put on puberty blockers and on the path to medical transition before they can even give informed consent.</p><p>Medical organizations have been wrong before. Medical institutions taught <a href="https://andreasvesalius2.weebly.com/vesalius-vs-galen.html">Galen's mistaken works on anatomy for 1000 years</a> before they were questioned, and anyone who did was ridiculed and labeled a heretic. For the longest time the WHO listed homosexuality as a mental illness, and now they don't.</p><p>Just because medical institutions condone, promote or otherwise recommend a practice does not necessarily mean that practice is correct or backed by science. Some practices may be in fact backed by pseudo-science as is the case with male infant circumcision. There may be <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2019/09/when-someone-says-its-not-money.html">financial incentive</a> behind promoting <i>"affirmative therapy"</i> in children, and that's because transitioning a child early guarantees a medical patient for life, requiring a rash of surgery and hormones for life.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYCQHLT1jNpFFssnzUu7FsvnWi30exWImVUJQ5PvQdf5ccNeofDnfS2Ubc58b7wJ9Sy8TUAPrcw5ydKF7jeRXI2c8rXi0dzyMixBAgfX5QCxjQzSVMXsfmVvMNTmtFQ-MZimR_EEfMnPlK38UWqSEeYDpQn_ytb9D0q3IZYRAvPZUsam4lhD_VRgs/s380/AAP%20All%20About%20Profit.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="367" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYCQHLT1jNpFFssnzUu7FsvnWi30exWImVUJQ5PvQdf5ccNeofDnfS2Ubc58b7wJ9Sy8TUAPrcw5ydKF7jeRXI2c8rXi0dzyMixBAgfX5QCxjQzSVMXsfmVvMNTmtFQ-MZimR_EEfMnPlK38UWqSEeYDpQn_ytb9D0q3IZYRAvPZUsam4lhD_VRgs/s320/AAP%20All%20About%20Profit.png" width="309" /></a></div><p><i></i></p><blockquote><i> "It's difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."</i> ~Upton Sinclair</blockquote><br /><p></p><p>If we're going to stand up and question the practice of male infant circumcision, then surely, it stands to reason that we need to question double mastectomy, orchiectomy, hysterectomy, or radical surgery on otherwise healthy individuals who aren't yet of the age of consent. Surely giving children puberty blockers, drugs that are normally given to sex offenders to chemically castrate them, warrants introspection.</p><p>If removing a child's foreskin is a problem, because it's invasive, elective, removing normal, healthy tissue, then surely removing a teen's breasts and penis and testicles before they're even 18 is an even bigger problem.</p><p>Why isn't anyone questioning this? Why is everyone just smiling, nodding and going along? Is it because people are afraid of being vilified as "transphobic bigots?" In the same way people who question circumcision are called "antisemite nazis?" Is that what people are afraid of?</p><p>It shouldn't be <i>"transphobic"</i> or <i>"bigoted"</i> to want to question invasive medical treatment and radical surgery. It shouldn't be controversial to question chemically castrating, giving mastectomies and radical genital-altering surgery to healthy, minors who are incapable of giving informed consent.<br /></p><p>One would think that before considering radical surgery a patient need to be equipped the the information, all the pros and cons, before making an informed decision, yet somehow suggesting this is controversial.</p><p>One would think that doctors exploiting the transient <span>naïveté of youth to get them to agree to radical surgery would be seen as medical fraud and deliberate child abuse.<br /></span></p><p>And yet, here we are. <br /></p><p><b>How far does Matt Walsh Buy his own arguments?</b></p><p>The above being said, however, I do wonder how consistent are Matt's arguments that we should not perform surgery on healthy, non-consenting minors. He is certainly insistent that healthy children cannot consent to chemical castration, double-mastectomy or radical genital altering surgery. And yet I wonder what his thoughts are on circumcision?</p><p>It is my surmisal that, given that he has rather conservative values, he either sees no problem with male infant circumcision, or actually advocates for it, and that cognitive dissonance and cultural blinders simply disallow him to see the inconsistency of condoning male infant circumcision, while opposing double-mastectomy and bottom surgery for underage individuals. In these conversations, conservatives often coin the term <i>"genital mutilation"</i> to express their disgust at genital surgery on minors.<br /></p><p>In a very recent video (today is June 14th, 2022), Matt engages in a monologue that, were it about the foreskin, you'd think he was an intactivist. It is a response to a journalist who critiques his film "What is a Woman."</p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8D0QlBzEerE" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><p><br /></p><p>Here is the excerpt from the transcript:</p><p></p><blockquote><i>"The primary complication of cutting off a woman's healthy breasts is that, *you've cut off a woman's healthy breasts.* The complication is that you've removed a piece of her body, a piece of her, and you've done it on the theory that it will help her be a man, even though, she could never be a man, and chopping off her breasts will bring her no closer to manhood, than she was when she still had them. <br /><br />The fact that there are, allegedly "only," "additional complications in 12% of cases" does not rescue you from this fact, it's the surgery itself that's the problem. Even if everything goes "perfectly well" when you're cutting the breasts off of a woman, you're still cutting her breasts off, and that's the issue. You are removing healthy body parts, and often you're doing this to young girls who would not even be allowed to legally get tattoos, because they've been judged "too young" for it."</i></blockquote><br />Though Matt would most likely be loathe to admit it, what he says parallels the issue of male infant circumcision. He's on to something. He's so close! He's nearly there. If only he would follow through with his own logic and condemn the forced circumcision of healthy, non-consenting minors, he'd be consistent. If he actually believed what he said, I think he'd be an intactivist. <p></p><p>Male infant circumcision advocates often cite the <i>"low complication rates"</i>. That's not the problem. That you're cutting off healthy tissue from a child's penis IS the complication. This is precisely the point intactivists have been trying to drive home for decades. The fact that it's <i>"only 2%"</i> does not rescue circumcision advocates. 2% of 1.4 million babies is STILL 28,000 babies with complications. <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">The risks include </span><a href="http://archive.boston.com/news/health/articles/2009/04/11/state_details_safety_lapses_at_beth_israel/?page=2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: #888888; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;">infection</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2015/04/mogen-circumcision-clamp-manufacturers.html" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: #888888; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;">partial or full ablation</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">, hemorrhage and even </span><a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2016/05/circumcision-death-this-time-in-italy.html" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: #888888; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;">death</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">.</span></p><p>It's circumcision itself that is the problem. Even if everything <i>"goes perfectly well"</i> you're still cutting off part of a child's penis, you're removing healthy, functional flesh from children who aren't legally allowed to get tattoos, and that's the issue. <br /><br />This is the problem with male infant circumcision, and it would be nice if people like Matt Walsh followed through with his logic and applied it consistently. It's too bad that cultural blinders and cognitive dissonance will most likely disallow him apply his own logic.<br /></p><p><b>Matt Walsh Trips Over Male Infant Circumcision and Fails to Recognize It as a Problem</b></p><p>In yet another video, Matt gives a speech at the Western Conservative Summit. </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rZ27ezGYNqM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He highlights the failure that was John Money's horrible experiment gone wrong (starts at 15:55), but somehow manages to gloss over the very procedure that resulted in David Reimer's castration.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Poor Matt, I feel so sorry for him.</span></p><p>There are <span style="font-family: inherit;">so many things he gets right, and yet, he falls into his own trap of wanting to preserve his own world view.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>"He (David Reimer) was circumcised for phimosis,"</i> he said. A condition that <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2016/09/phimosis-lost-knowledge-missing-in.html">can't be observed in newborns because the foreskin is fused to the head of the penis in most newborns</a>.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Reimer twins were NOT born with <i>"phimosis,"</i> no child ever is, as non-retractability of the foreskin is normal in 99% of boys at birth. The boys were not being <i>"treated for a condition,"</i> they were perfectly healthy. The other twin was not circumcised. He mysteriously survived until his suicide.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's almost studious; justify circumcision while condemning the resulting castration, which wasn't Money's fault. Money raising David as a girl? What a monster. The needless, elective, purely cosmetic procedure which resulted in losing David's penis? That's just fine.</span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is nothing EVER wrong with boys at birth. That is, unless it's doctors wanting to offer their <i>"solutions."</i> Money's <i>"solution"</i> to turn David into a girl was a solution to a problem caused by another unneeded <i>"solution"</i> to a non-existent problem. To coin a phrase, <i>"Robbing Peter to Pay Paul."</i><br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Circumcision is another elephant in the room, and Matt is not yet ready to address it.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He is so close. So darn close! And yet he misses it.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If mutilating the genitals of a child who cannot yet give his full consent is a problem, then male infant circumcision is RIGHT OUT.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Matt maligns parents who would let a doctors put their child on puberty blockers, give them bottom surgery etc. and rightfully so. But he glosses over the one procedure that produced a case like David Reimer in the first place.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nothing screams cultural blinders, nothing screams cognitive dissonance, nothing screams willful ignorance than causally glossing over the one thing we do every day that can and does result in boys losing their penis, while protesting that gender affirming surgery is genital mutilation.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My only guess is that Matt is circumcised and has had any male children he has</span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> circumcised</span></span>, so he must find some sort of justification for what he did and what was done to him, while at the same time condemning the despicable experiment that was John Money's forcible transition of David Reimer. At the same time, condemning parents making these<i> "decisions"</i> for their children. </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm not trying to defend parents "transing" their children; giving puberty blockers to kids and giving them <i>" gender affirming surgery"</i> when they can't actually give fully informed consent is horrendous. But if Matt seriously believes we shouldn't mutilate our children at a time when they're unable to give their informed consent, he has got to talk about the elephant in the room that is male infant circumcision.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In any other case, reaping profit from non-medical surgery on healthy, non-consenting individuals constitutes medical fraud. Without any medical indication, doctors have no business performing surgery on healthy, non-consenting minors, let alone be giving parents any kind of <i>"choice."</i></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The risks of male infant circumcision include infection, partial or full ablation of the penis (see David Reimer), hemorrhage, sepsis and even death.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The same reasons why we shouldn't be giving puberty blockers or genital surgery to healthy minors are the same reasons we shouldn't be circumcising healthy, non-consenting newborns.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If Matt is serious about genital mutilation and the well-being and rights of children who are too young to consent to elective non-medical surgery, he has GOT to talk about the genital mutilation that goes on every day in this country.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Otherwise, he doesn't actually care about the rights of children, informed consent, medical fraud, or charlatans profiting off of pseudo-medicine, and his concern for child abuse rings hollow.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">DISCLAIMER: </b><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">I speak out against the forced circumcision of healthy, non-consenting minors in any way, shape or form. I make no exception for "religion" nor "cultural practice" of any kind. Please do not conflate my disdain for the forced circumcision of minors with a belittlement of circumcised men, or a hate for Jews.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">In this blog I criticize circumcision advocates and expose information about them that is not always revealed to the public. Some may argue that I am engaging in ad hominem. However, I'm only pointing out conflicts of interest, and this is not ad hominem. The following is an excerpt from Wikipedia's entry on ad hominem (4/22/2012):</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"></b><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><b>Conflict of Interest</b>: Where a source seeks to convince by a claim of authority or by personal observation, <u>identification of conflicts of interest are not </u></i><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><u>ad hominem </u>– it is generally well accepted that <u>an "authority" needs to be objective and impartial, and that an audience can only evaluate information from a source if they know about conflicts of interest that may affect the objectivity of the source</u>. <b><u>Identification of a conflict of interest is appropriate, and concealment of a conflict of interest is a problem</u>.</b></i><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">The views I express in this blog are my own individual opinion, and they do not necessarily reflect the views of all intactivists. I am but an individual with one opinion, and I do not pretend to speak for the intactivist movement as a whole, thank you.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">~Joseph4GI</span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Related Posts</b></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/06/anti-semite-card-no-longer-washes.html">The "Anti-Semite" Card No Longer Washes</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/03/out-of-line-aap-circumcision-policy.html">OUT OF LINE: AAP Circumcision Policy Statement Formally Rejected</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2015/04/mogen-circumcision-clamp-manufacturers.html">Mogen Circumcision Clamp Manufacturers Face Civil Lawsuit</a></div></div></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2016/05/circumcision-death-this-time-in-italy.html">CIRCUMCISION DEATH: This Time in Italy</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2016/09/phimosis-lost-knowledge-missing-in.html">PHIMOSIS: Lost Knowledge Missing In American Medicine</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/02/politically-correct-research-when.html">Politically Correct Research: When Science, Morals and Political Agendas Collide</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2019/09/when-someone-says-its-not-money.html">When Someone Says It's Not the Money...</a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>External Links</b></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://archive.boston.com/news/health/articles/2009/04/11/state_details_safety_lapses_at_beth_israel/?page=2">State details safety lapses at Beth Israel</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://andreasvesalius2.weebly.com/vesalius-vs-galen.html">Vesalius vs. Galen </a><br /></span></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p>
</p>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-77493467681787253132022-05-01T07:50:00.003-07:002022-05-01T07:50:46.798-07:00It Looks Like @Joseph4GI Is Back<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJtrU3CX4HSPTJwAY-dQ_LIVkZoyaIRkZzeZA_cC6BnVu1v-YATokal-fDiUXkgsUYM96hwt9X0nq9jwfRzXN3nbLvdmyYAY4f4euZuE8jQWDqZlt3KraFCpJVpisf1JiwwVW63UoZtpEp56k6aUkkVOS9Vs6pRoaeSvcyY67sR2ZjDdIXyGZHpJU/s718/1%20qIvMJr5XPEYTQ9J2eXSeFA.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="718" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJtrU3CX4HSPTJwAY-dQ_LIVkZoyaIRkZzeZA_cC6BnVu1v-YATokal-fDiUXkgsUYM96hwt9X0nq9jwfRzXN3nbLvdmyYAY4f4euZuE8jQWDqZlt3KraFCpJVpisf1JiwwVW63UoZtpEp56k6aUkkVOS9Vs6pRoaeSvcyY67sR2ZjDdIXyGZHpJU/w400-h228/1%20qIvMJr5XPEYTQ9J2eXSeFA.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>It looks like my account at Twitter has been restored.</p><p>I wonder what could have happened?</p><p>Could it be Elon Musk is keeping his word?</p><p>Those of you who have been following me on here know that Twitter had suspended my account and it looked like I wasn't getting it back.</p><p>Well, following the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk, I decided I would try logging back into my account, and lo and behold, it looks like I'm finally able to start tweeting again.</p><p>However, I'm not sure how active I'll be now that my account is back.</p><p>It was nice not having to worry about who was tweeting, responding to me, mentioning me etc.</p><p>Do I really want to go back to that?</p><p>Perhaps for now, I'll just stick to publishing any new posts I create on this blog.</p><p><b>My Thoughts on Elon Musk's Acquisition of Twitter</b></p><p>I'm of two minds regarding the recent series of events surrounding this social media platform<b>.</b></p><p>On the one hand, I'm not sure how I feel about one man having the power to censor or allow information to be published.</p><p>That was the problem before, though.<br /><br />It still IS the problem on platforms such as Facebook, who are owned by a single billionaire, namely Mark Zuckerberg.<br /></p><p>Actually, as long as I've been an intactivst, there have always been people trying to label us "anti-Semites," and what we post "hate speech" or "disinformation."</p><p>How verifiable fact can be called any of these things is beyond me, and yet, for a while, it seems advocates of male infant circumcision were successful in having me silenced on Twitter.</p><p>It is not uncommon to hear from other intactivists that Twitter, Facebook or other social media platforms had suspended their accounts and put them on periodical bans.</p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyB-dqv6G6pUNEKedofvuOfwbF7KqN4uuUlStXezd0-079yfjUnhrdbh8z2niQBgQ06pwOIz-TTNl5t1xhEoTbPK6gzMDbvY_bx251oJOhZG_Viokt6P0pdDm4S5F-KnQHzfvGpgJvCjQNtppDcsk0HDptqOJt6Wy82Dq12b1kuX2LVf3xQfJzBEI/s1280/censortwit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyB-dqv6G6pUNEKedofvuOfwbF7KqN4uuUlStXezd0-079yfjUnhrdbh8z2niQBgQ06pwOIz-TTNl5t1xhEoTbPK6gzMDbvY_bx251oJOhZG_Viokt6P0pdDm4S5F-KnQHzfvGpgJvCjQNtppDcsk0HDptqOJt6Wy82Dq12b1kuX2LVf3xQfJzBEI/s320/censortwit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>It's rather sad, frustrating, scary, all of these things and more at the same time, that the factual information that intactivists have to share can be labeled "hate speech," "disinformation" etc. and banned, blocked, deleted, what have you.</p><p>So on the other hand, I'm glad that Twitter is now in the hands of someone that, at least for now, seems to be a champion of free speech.</p><p>It is a problem when truth and verifiable fact can be labeled "hate speech" and/or "disinformation" for the sake of censoring it.</p><p>It is my hope that Mr. Elon Musk is a man of his word and he protects the free speech of intactivists, although this would be construed as "hate speech" and/or "disinformation" by those who are inconvenienced by it and who would have us silenced.</p><p>WHO would be interested in silencing intactivists?</p><p></p><blockquote><p>-Those who profit from this procedure performed on millions annually in the United States alone.</p><p>-Those who have religious or cultural conviction to protect what they see as an age-old custom.</p><p>-Those who have malpractice lawsuits for disseminating medical misinformation and reaping profit from non-medical procedures on healthy, non-consenting individuals to evade.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>There are pocketbooks, reputations, religious beliefs and cultural customs to protect.</p><p></p><p>Arguments stand or fall on their own.<br /><br />Given a proper hearing, it would be self-evident that arguments against male infant circumcision are robust, and arguments in favor collapse under their own weight.</p><p>The only way advocates of male infant circumcision *can* win is to find ways to make sure the conversation doesn't happen, whether it be by crying "hate speech," "disinformation" or by demanding platforms have us banned.</p><p>So I am glad that it sounds like we have a champion in Elon Musk.</p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_P3OFt88Z-ImJ6NhA9ziiw0WKU3PiLg_T14DB9hx75SfvzhNTfdCgmSF-q0aPO_o0luvFGO8-gNIkVrmF1oWxv800uDMblZRiQ8ThJexCEIDnrMolszaiFzhtFvEjNVnFCo9vOjTVFh30Tn3-If7ATweOxI576TLChpEmf4V_3PFQ4ACNWDPeI1g/s1200/elon%20twitter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_P3OFt88Z-ImJ6NhA9ziiw0WKU3PiLg_T14DB9hx75SfvzhNTfdCgmSF-q0aPO_o0luvFGO8-gNIkVrmF1oWxv800uDMblZRiQ8ThJexCEIDnrMolszaiFzhtFvEjNVnFCo9vOjTVFh30Tn3-If7ATweOxI576TLChpEmf4V_3PFQ4ACNWDPeI1g/s320/elon%20twitter.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>A lot of people don't like this, but allowing the freedom of speech is a GOOD thing.</p><p>It allows us to have important, meaningful conversation, discuss difficult topics such as male infant circumcision, and to present the facts so people can see and verify them for themselves.</p><p>It's thanks to freedom of speech that we're allowed to question guidelines put out by male infant circumcision advocates at the CDC and AAP, which we know are deliberately misleading.<br /></p><p>It is a logical fallacy to dismiss information when it's not being purported by "the experts" at medical organizations, and/or to prop it up when it is.</p><p>It's called "ad verecundiam," also known as "appeal to authority.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="818" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIjN9ubcuW4e0D_sqdwIx6qz2uP40sPAwnAjsFTCDmpIKXmM5o2TkDTYgLXbOU0byd9CgOXy2rpfGob-W8X4kdEW6NCfNiYVL0d7R6ojuf90-ITctXSdHyn10QSyjzj1oDICQUlTfgNb3EUjWd-dtRHy01v053z9qJNSawEvOgz4CI8m9ea1FLnl4/w400-h306/appeal%20to%20authority.png" width="400" /></a></div><p> </p><p>Information is either true or false based on its own merit, regardless of who is presenting it, and it is completely possible for even experts at prestigious organizations to be wrong.<br /></p><p>It is those interested in suppressing information while maintaining a false narrative who are interested in having the power to decide what is "mis/disinformation" or not.</p><p>Intactivists have factual, verifiable information on our side, but what good does it do us if circumcision advocates on Twitter deem it "hate speech" or "disinformation?"</p><p>I'm SO glad Mr. Elon Musk decided to buy Twitter.</p><p>Only those who fear the truth need fear freedom of speech and eager to wield the power to silence others.</p><p>Those who fear actual lies and disinformation need not fret, for the truth shall set us free.<br /></p><p><b>Related Posts:</b></p><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2020/02/the-state-of-affairs-for-joseph4gi.html">The State of Affairs for Joseph4gi</a> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2020/01/twitter-censoring-joseph4gi.html">Twitter Censoring Joseph4GI</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2017/12/circumcision-censorship-at-twitter.html">Circumcision Censorship at Twitter? </a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2020/06/twitter-bans-award-winning-circumcision.html">Twitter Bans Award-Winning Circumcision Documentary Filmmaker</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/02/politically-correct-research-when.html">Politically Correct Research: When Science, Morals and Political Agendas Collide</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> <br /><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/03/out-of-line-aap-circumcision-policy.html">OUT OF LINE: AAP Circumcision Policy Statement Formally Rejected</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div></div><p></p>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-84907157381312815292022-05-01T02:28:00.002-07:002022-05-01T07:51:37.199-07:00CIRCUMCISION DEATH: 7yo Dies in Bishek, Kyrgyzstan Post-Circumcision<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM40UDRVDySgXb_08KU4NlRFTwKKOUau0Iya4W-NgrCVSWiWsoOXTM4r8dVnhHUxErSy2PXMCa0UVrcGwOXNGRNcGnzjbW41sDNOUCElRtn1lKFw2B_TIjoHSuVU7IrOpNAfJrDm6PXk9uUszxMSV_bH2ByLWWEotqivKjUi2wkadkluM2TcDbp6s/s728/kyrgystan%20flag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="728" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM40UDRVDySgXb_08KU4NlRFTwKKOUau0Iya4W-NgrCVSWiWsoOXTM4r8dVnhHUxErSy2PXMCa0UVrcGwOXNGRNcGnzjbW41sDNOUCElRtn1lKFw2B_TIjoHSuVU7IrOpNAfJrDm6PXk9uUszxMSV_bH2ByLWWEotqivKjUi2wkadkluM2TcDbp6s/w400-h233/kyrgystan%20flag.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <p></p><p>This happened last month, and I've been sitting on it because I've been busy with life and work, but I figured, better late than never.</p><p>I can't read the <a href="https://akipress.com/news:669704:7yo_boy_died_in_Bishkek_after_circumcision,_autopsy_not_performed/">original news article</a> anymore because it's now behind a paywall, but the opening line says it all; A 7-year-old boy died in the Bishkek Children's Hospital, Bishek, Kyrgyzstan on April 2nd this year.</p><p>The headline says that an autopsy was not performed.</p><p>Outside of the United States, circumcision is performed on boys of varying ages. In Muslim countries, such as Kyrgyzstan, circumcision is performed on children between the ages of 7 and 13.</p><p>Some circumcision advocates love to say "death doesn't happen when it's performed on newborns." Jewish advocates love to say "death never happens when performed on the 8th day." Of course, they say this because this is when Jewish boys are customarily circumcised.</p><p>None of this is true, however.</p><p>Death is a risk of circumcision, and it doesn't really matter at what age the circumcision is performed. <br /></p><p>The risks of male infant circumcision include infection, partial or full ablation, hemorrhage and even death.</p><p>Quite possibly the most common of all complications is the child bleeding to death because the wound has failed to heal properly, and this will happen to any male, any age, whether it's performed by a ritual circumcisor or doctor.</p><p>Please see the long list of links below.</p><p>In 2012, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued their policy
statement on male infant circumcision, where they state that <i>"the benefits of circumcision outweigh the risks,"</i> but at the same time, in the same policy statement, they say <i>"the true incidence of complications after newborn circumcision is unknown." </i>The
statement concluded that<i> "the benefits are not enough to recommend the
procedure," </i>while at the same time, that parents should be the ones to
weight the risks and benefits for themselves, the risks of which are, by
the AAP's own admission, unknown. In effect, the AAP absolves doctors
who perform circumcisions on healthy minors of any responsibility,
placing the onus on parents instead.<br /></p><p>Because this is cosmetic,
non-medical surgery, whether or not these risks are conscionable ought
to be considered when performing it on healthy, non-consenting minors.</p>It
is my view that, unless absolutely indicated, the decision of whether
or not to circumcise should be left up to the individual in question,
when he is of age, and after he has considered all the benefits and
risks for himself. <p></p><p>The child was alive and well up until April 2nd last month, and had he not been circumcised he would still be alive.</p><p>Death is a risk of circumcision.</p><p>Are parents being properly informed about this?</p><p>Without medical or clinical indication, can doctors even be performing circumcision on healthy, non-consenting minors, let alone be giving parents any kind of "choice?"</p><p>Isn't it medically fraudulent to be profiting from non-medical procedures on healthy, non-consenting individuals?</p><p>And if one of said individuals dies, should doctors not be held liable?<br /></p><p><b>Related Posts:</b> </p><p><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/05/so-wheres-sunat-party.html">So Where's the "Sunat Party?"</a></p><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/05/no-world-record-for-circumcision-party.html">No World Record for "Circumcision Party"</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><b>External Link:</b></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><b> </b></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://akipress.com/news:669704:7yo_boy_died_in_Bishkek_after_circumcision,_autopsy_not_performed/">AKIPress:7yo in died in Bihsek after circumcision, autopsy not performed</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><b> </b></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><b>Further Reading:</b></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2022/03/circumcision-death-13yo-bleeds-to-death.html">CIRCUMCISION DEATH: 13yo Bleeds to Death in the Philippines</a></div></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2021/12/australia-one-child-dies-another-nearly.html">AUSTRALIA: One Child Dies, Another Nearly Bleeds to Death Post Circumcision</a><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span><b> </b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2020/08/africa-two-boys-die-post-circumcision.html"><span><span><span>AFRICA: Two Boys Die Post-Circumcision Despite Thoughts and Prayers</span></span></span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><b> </b></span></span></span></div>
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While Filipinos are mostly Catholic now, and the Bible prohibits circumcision for gentiles (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians%205%3A1-6&version=KJV">Galatians 5</a>), circumcision continues to be ingrained in Filipino culture.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQBdsvDRet3iOj_2luJgFG8acgXJX50x-d4Opgbj_2iyYbtqfsSvI5tOgPEL23NNqi-VR3CpaW0K6SbHHNngs-kK8cws-jNdGsCcEKqCDP32EQ7RQloQft6xf4DyW-UXsaqtv_mF-x0KDCmep4B3lDZ5TE3pXtGYAM4eZU3rSnh_p2RhH7H7LmDNw/s634/manila.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="634" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQBdsvDRet3iOj_2luJgFG8acgXJX50x-d4Opgbj_2iyYbtqfsSvI5tOgPEL23NNqi-VR3CpaW0K6SbHHNngs-kK8cws-jNdGsCcEKqCDP32EQ7RQloQft6xf4DyW-UXsaqtv_mF-x0KDCmep4B3lDZ5TE3pXtGYAM4eZU3rSnh_p2RhH7H7LmDNw/s320/manila.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Boys being circumcised at a "circumcision party" in Marikina, The Philippines</span><br /></p><p>Unlike the United States where male infant circumcision is performed on newborns, in the Philippines it is a rite of passage, often performed on older boys. In the Philippines, circumcision can happen at a hospital, or a doctor's office, but it often happens at mass circumcision events, where boys are gathered and circumcised by organizations dedicated to circumcising boys.</p><p>Because it is stigmatized to remain intact, or "supot" as they say in the Philippines, most boys are geared toward getting circumcised from a young age, in the summer before going back to school.</p><p>While most circumcisions are performed "successfully," where the destruction of the glanular hood is intentional, there are risks that attend the procedure.</p><p>Various kinds of infection, including MRSA and galloping gangrene can occur, part or full ablation of the penis can happen, and hemorrhage or sepsis can occur. The most common complication of circumcision is uncontrollable bleeding.</p><p>Not to mention that even a circumcision considered "successful" will not always be an aesthetically pleasing result, often resulting in too much or too little skin removed, skin tags, uneven scarring and other misshaping. <br /></p><p>And yes, death is a risk of male circumcision. <br /></p><p>These risks attend male circumcision at any age.</p><p>In 2012, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued their policy statement on male infant circumcision, where they state that <i>"the benefits of circumcision outweigh the risks,"</i> but at the same time, in the same policy statement, they say <i>"the true incidence of complications after newborn circumcision is unknown." </i>The statement concluded that "the benefits are not enough to recommend the procedure," while at the same time, that parents should be the ones to weight the risks and benefits for themselves, the risks of which are, by the AAP's own admission, unknown. In effect, the AAP absolves doctors who perform circumcisions on healthy minors of any responsibility, placing the onus on parents instead.<br /></p><p>Because this is cosmetic, non-medical surgery, whether or not these risks are conscionable ought to be considered when performing it on healthy, non-consenting minors.</p><p>It is my view that, unless absolutely indicated, the decision of whether or not to circumcise should be left up to the individual in question, when he is of age, and after he has considered all the benefits and risks for himself. <br /></p><p><b>Related Posts:</b> </p><p><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/05/so-wheres-sunat-party.html">So Where's the "Sunat Party?"</a></p><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/05/no-world-record-for-circumcision-party.html">No World Record for "Circumcision Party"</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><b>External Link:</b></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><b> </b></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/regions/826327/circumcision-causes-13-year-old-to-bleed-to-death-in-lucena/story/">GMA News Online: Circumcision causes 13-year-old to bleed to death in Lucena<b> </b></a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><b> </b></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><b>Further Reading:</b></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><b> </b></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2021/12/australia-one-child-dies-another-nearly.html">AUSTRALIA: One Child Dies, Another Nearly Bleeds to Death Post Circumcision</a><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span><b> </b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2020/08/africa-two-boys-die-post-circumcision.html"><span><span><span>AFRICA: Two Boys Die Post-Circumcision Despite Thoughts and Prayers</span></span></span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><b> </b></span></span></span></div>
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The foreskin is not a birth defect. Neither is it a congenital
deformity or genetic anomaly akin to a 6th finger or a cleft. Neither is
it a medical condition like a ruptured appendix or diseased gall
bladder. Neither is it a dead part of the body, like the umbilical
cord, hair, or fingernails.<br />
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The foreskin is not "extra skin." The foreskin is normal, natural,
healthy, functioning tissue, present in all males at birth; it is as
intrinsic to male genitalia as labia are to female genitalia.<br />
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Unless there is a medical or clinical indication, the circumcision of a
healthy, non-consenting individuals is a deliberate wound; it is
the destruction of normal, healthy tissue, the permanent
disfigurement of normal, healthy organs, and by very definition,
infant genital mutilation, and a violation of the most basic of
human rights.</p>The risks of male infant circumcision include <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2009/04/11/state_details_safety_lapses_at_beth_israel/?page=2">infection</a>, hemorrhage, <a href="http://www.jacksonwhitelaw.com/az-personal-injury/2012/03/21/the-controversy-behind-the-mogen-clamp/">partial</a> or <a href="http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/story/23912521/mother-upset-over-botched-circumcision#axzz31ueB7S5g">full ablation</a> of the penis and even <a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2013/03/circumcision-death-yet-another-one-i.html">death</a>.<br />
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Without medical or clinical indication, doctors have absolutely no
business performing surgery in healthy, non-consenting individuals, much
less be eliciting any kind of "decision" from parents.<p>Because male infant circumcision is elective, cosmetic surgery, any death above "zero" is unconscionable.</p><p>May one day the circumcision of healthy, non-consenting individuals be recognized for the medical fraud and violation of basic human rights that it is.<br /></p><p><b>Related Posts:</b><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2014/05/new-study-circumcision-risks-low-in.html">NEW "STUDY": "Circumcision Risks Low in Newborns"</a></p><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2012/12/the-circumcision-blame-game.html">The Circumcision Blame Game</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span><b>List of Deaths and Complications Documented on This Blog:</b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span><b> </b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2021/12/australia-one-child-dies-another-nearly.html">AUSTRALIA: One Child Dies, Another Nearly Bleeds to Death Post Circumcision</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span><b> </b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2020/08/africa-two-boys-die-post-circumcision.html"><span><span><span>AFRICA: Two Boys Die Post-Circumcision Despite Thoughts and Prayers</span></span></span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><b> </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span><a href="https://joseph4gi.blogspot.com/2020/07/facebook-another-circumcision-death.html">FACEBOOK: Another Circumcision Death Surfaces</a></span></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><a href="https://joseph4gi.blogspot.com/2019/04/italy-yet-another-circumcision-death.html">ITALY: Yet Another Circumcision Death</a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2017/06/facebook-another-baby-fighting-for-his.html">FACEBOOK: Another Baby Fighting For His Life Post Circumcision</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2017/05/madera-ca-another-circumcision.html">MADERA, CA: Another Circumcision Complication</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2017/03/circumcision-botch-another-post.html">CIRCUMCISION BOTCH: Another Post-Circumcision Hemorrhage Case Surfaces on Facebook</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2017/02/law-suit-child-loses-significant.html"><span>LAW SUIT: Child Loses "Significant Portion" of Penis During Circ</span>umcision</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2017/01/circumcision-botches-colombia-and.html">CIRCUMCISION BOTCHES: Colombia and Malaysia</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2017/01/circumcision-death-this-time-in-russia.html">CIRCUMCISION DEATH: This Time in Russia</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2016/09/facebook-kentucky-botched-circumcision.html">FACEBOOK: KENTUCKY - Botched Circumcision Gives Newborn Severe UTI</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2016/08/facebook-circumcision-sends-another.html">FACEBOOK: Circumcision Sends Another Child to NICU - This Time in LA</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2016/05/circumcision-death-this-time-in-italy.html">CIRCUMCISION DEATH: This Time in Italy</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2016/04/intactivists-why-we-concern-ourselves.html">INTACTIVISTS: Why We Concern Ourselves</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2016/01/facebook-two-botches-and-death.html">FACEBOOK: Two Botches and a Death</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2015/10/circumcision-death-child-dies-after.html">CIRCUMCISION DEATH: Child Dies After Doctor Convinces Ontario Couple to Circumcise</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2015/10/ontario-circumcision-death-plot-thickens.html">ONTARIO CIRCUMCISION DEATH: The Plot Thickens</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2015/06/phony-phimosis-how-american-doctors-get.html">Phony Phimosis: How American Doctors Get Away With Medical Fraud</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2016/06/facebook-two-more-babies-nearly-succumb.html">FACEBOOK: Two More Babies Nearly Succumb to Post Circumcision Hemorrhage</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2016/03/facebook-another-circumcision-mishap.html">FACEBOOK: Another Circumcision Mishap - Baby Hemorrhaging After Circumcision</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2015/11/what-your-dr-doesnt-know-could-hurt.html">What Your Dr. Doesn't Know Could Hurt Your Child</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2016/02/facebook-child-in-nicu-after-lung.html">FACEBOOK: Child in NICU After Lung Collapses During Circumcision</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2016/07/emirates-circumcision-claims-another.html">EMIRATES: Circumcision Claims Another Life</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2016/07/babycenter-keeping-us-parents-in-dark.html">BabyCenter Keeping US Parents In the Dark About Circumcision</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2015/10/texas-nother-circumcision-botch.html">TEXAS: 'Nother Circumcision Botch</a> <br /></div>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-48113313029281079492021-12-15T13:02:00.000-08:002021-12-15T13:02:10.170-08:00RABBI ANDREW SACKS - Intact Boys Born to Jewish Mothers are Jewish<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqXAjcuBNy3mNax_4rp8JF29qFj451-N14oLEqJE-BRBiH3pZsqJRzB9BIIY9pE3OJhUo7SPFZ9k007Xo20b4mEBZ3KhTMZB9jItVwc5_JMA6gGs6pFAZsoZM7IIYlouA7-115laxy-E6cruKZgNPj7Sriwr2GR-5a5Ro4CIEIZHdVI_LCFJ4T1DU=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1141" data-original-width="2048" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqXAjcuBNy3mNax_4rp8JF29qFj451-N14oLEqJE-BRBiH3pZsqJRzB9BIIY9pE3OJhUo7SPFZ9k007Xo20b4mEBZ3KhTMZB9jItVwc5_JMA6gGs6pFAZsoZM7IIYlouA7-115laxy-E6cruKZgNPj7Sriwr2GR-5a5Ro4CIEIZHdVI_LCFJ4T1DU=w400-h223" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Who is Jewish?</p><p>What is Jewish? <br /></p><p>Well, as a goy (what racist Jews call non-Jews), I would think it would be as simple as, if your parents are Jewish, then you're Jewish too.</p><p>If your dad is white and your mom is Chinese, then you're half white and half Chinese. You have double-heritage.</p><p>If your dad is Jewish and your mom isn't, or vice-versa, then you're at least half-Jewish.</p><p>But of course, it isn't as simple as that.</p><p>Being Jewish, it seems, is more than just being born to parents who are descendants of one of the twelve tribes of Israel.</p><p>Is Jewish a religion or is it an ethnic group?</p><p>At one point it used to be one and the same; people who were Jewish followed Judaism, but nowadays things aren't so clear cut, pardon the pun.</p><p>If I'm following correctly, anyone can convert now.</p><p>If you're male, go get circumcised by a rabbi (EECH.), get his blessing and you're Jewish now. <br /></p><p>If you're a woman, a rabbi blesses you and you're now Jewish.</p><p>And therefore your children are Jewish, if we look at Halakhic law.</p><p>Pardon my racism, but this creates a whole ethnic mess.</p><p>It muddies the waters.</p><p>In any other case you can't just be "blessed" into an ethnicity.</p><p>No matter how hard I try, I can never be Irish. Or Danish. Or Chinese. I am who I am.</p><p>My DNA makeup is what it is, and there is nothing I can do to change this, so it is difficult for me to conceive of just anyone "converting" to Judaism, "becoming" a Jew.</p><p>Who is Jewish?</p><p>I'm not Jewish, I can't speak, really, but in MY book, someone who is "truly" Jewish can trace their lineage to, well, actual Jews.</p><p>One of the 12 tribes.</p><p>My goyism aside, it's refreshing to see an actual rabbi from Israel setting the record straight.</p><p>I just saw the following video on Facebook and I thought it was relevant to share here:</p><p> <br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cucbBEzUrZ4" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p> (Last visible as of 12/16/2021)</p><p>Rabbi Andrew Sacks, Director of the Rabbinical Assembly of the
Conservative movement in Israel says that there is no question that Jewish males who have not been
circumcised are fully Jewish and, further, they can participate fully in
synagogue and ritual life, including bar mitzvah.</p><p>Sacks reiterates what I've always known; that a person is Jewish by virtue of having a Jewish mother.</p><p>(Does this include converts? Can a Japanese couple suddenly birth a Jewish baby if the mother decides to convert to Judaism?)</p><p>I appreciate the inclusion, but the man is still adamant that the "tradition" be continued.</p><p>Furthermore, he comments on what I am almost certain is not his area of expertise; he's a rabbi. Why is he commenting on "medical benefits?" "Benefits" that are contested and fail to manifest in the United States where we have the highest rates of STDs, including HIV, even though 80% of male are circumcised from birth?<br /></p><p>But hey, at the very least Brit Shalom and the existence of intact Jewish males is being acknowledged.</p><p><b>External Link:</b></p><p><a href="https://www.bruchim.online/leading-israeli-rabbi-jewish-males-to-be-included-regardless-of-circumcision-status-2/?fbclid=IwAR0H1E8iH-CD3uUsi13nMt9w574SiCa8QmEgapnBoMaCXCuJYev9OG-P4aw">Bruchim Online - Leading Israeli Rabbi: Jewish Males to be Included Regardless of Circumcision Status</a><br /></p>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-39897138297354189032021-12-14T14:50:00.002-08:002021-12-15T13:21:50.538-08:00Tucker Carlson and Fuambai Ahmadu Make the Case Against Male Infant Circumcision<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqAp2nzzn1PfQNpgDxsfVDzBtOXCUc0L7CYHmlgHn5JvPolE5pls0w6GZltIE4glK5rD3kSJnzfcsAmZthkIGjuwIaVg_qvjYqWFFer43BEounHkzlTgrXz8QzMcCpx72w9J_oakOupF9YQoxKe8FInJ2Fky2L7tgZYDvk6xOanelL_6qv-QVPwAw=s1200" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="831" data-original-width="1200" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqAp2nzzn1PfQNpgDxsfVDzBtOXCUc0L7CYHmlgHn5JvPolE5pls0w6GZltIE4glK5rD3kSJnzfcsAmZthkIGjuwIaVg_qvjYqWFFer43BEounHkzlTgrXz8QzMcCpx72w9J_oakOupF9YQoxKe8FInJ2Fky2L7tgZYDvk6xOanelL_6qv-QVPwAw=w400-h278" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Well, well, well! Would you look at this! I guess I'm on a roll after a long hiatus. Who knows how long it will last? Well, I guess I might as well ride the wave while I'm at it.</p><p>I was surfing Facebook and I came across an old video I hadn't noticed before. Fox's Tucker Carlson was interviewing Fuambai Ahmadu and her advocacy for female genital cutting. According to YouTube, the video was put up on May 4, 2017, around the time the <a href="DETROIT: Federal Ban on FGM Declared Unconstitutional">federal ban on FGM was lifted due to a court case in Detroit</a>.</p><p>I'll embed the video here. Today is December 15, 2021 and I can still see the video as of today, so if you can't see the video anymore, it was probably taken down. See the video below.</p><p><br />
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</p><p><br /></p><p>I decided to watch the whole video, and I couldn't help but notice that basically these two are making the case against male infant circumcision in the United States.</p><p>I think this back-and-forth perfectly illustrates the male infant circumcision slash female circumcision debate and how it usually goes down in this country because people are committed to the narrative that ignores and protects their cognitive dissonance.</p><p>I decided to type up a transcript of the whole thing and post it here. (I'm afraid there are some things that I couldn't quite hear clearly, please forgive me)</p><p>I'll be inserting my own commentary; if you want to hear the argument without any commentary, please feel free to watch the video.<br /></p><p><b>BEGIN TRANSCRIPT:</b></p><p></p><blockquote><i><b>Fuambai Ahmadu:</b><br />"I don't defend FGM. I don't mutilation. I would never defend the mutilation of anybody. I don't identify with the term 'mutilation.' I don't know anybody in my family who does, or my community. From over 25 years of research I've done on this field, I would say the great majority of women who are affected by what I call female circumcision practices do not see themselves as mutilated. I think we need to start interrogating how we use that terminology."<br /><br /></i></blockquote><p>I'd like to draw a parallel here; she sounds precisely like an advocate for male infant circumcision. People who advocate and support cutting the genitals of boys never think it's <i>"mutilation" </i>and they feel <i>"insulted"</i> that anyone ever referred to what they do as such. Well THEY don't do<i> "mutilation," </i>it's those other people who do it. We're the innocent ones. And I think this is where the whole trouble of <i>"female genital cutting is mutilation"</i> begins, because the point is not actually to decry mutilation; if it were, we would talk about the elephant in the room, and we would have to talk about the very practice one is defending. In my opinion, the whole point of decrying genital cutting as it occurs in girls as <i>"mutilation"</i> is to diverge attention to the practice one wishes to defend. If "that other" thing is "mutilation," what we do is perfectly fine.<br /></p><blockquote><i><b>Tucker Carlson:</b><br />"I almost don't want to specify what it refers to because it's upsetting, but it's the removal of a kind of key female sex organ in a lot of cases and this is being done to girls who obviously can't give consent, and it affects them for life."<br /></i></blockquote><p>Notice here the arguments that Carlson is putting forward, because it will get him in the end.</p><p>He has a problem with cutting girls because they can't give consent, and it affects them for life.</p><p>The same is irrefutably and demonstrably true for male infant circumcision. The biggest problem any intactivist have with male infant circumcision are, as you can read throughout my entire blog is, consent, and the fact that a man has to live with the outcome, adverse or benign, for the rest of his life.<br /></p><blockquote><i><br /><b>Ahmadu:</b><br />"This is why I think we DO need to have a discussion on what IT is. When we use the term "female genital mutilation, automatically a certain image comes to mind, an image that has been put out there for over 30, 40 years in the mainstream media through activists, efforts and women's groups. It's the idea of the most horrific of procedure, which is Type 3, the WHO's classified this as type 3 infibulation, that involves the suturing and sowing up of the labia majora. This is a very rare procedure that is confined, basically, to a specific part of sub-Sahara Africa, the horn of Africa. It makes up less than 10% of the entire prevalence of the procedures in sub-Sahara Africa and across various parts of the world.<br /></i></blockquote><p>A case I've made on here on several posts already (scroll to the bottom for links to other posts I've written on this subject).</p><p>Ahmadu is engaging in a classic tactic that advocates of male infant circumcision turn to, and that's blaming it all on the media and the negative image it has given it. It is forceful cutting of a healthy, non-consenting child, but that's not the problem; it's the negative attention it has garnered.</p><p>Can you imagine pedophiles arguing that nothing is wrong with what they do; it's the negative image the media and others have given them and they're being oppressed?<br /></p><p>Actually, in the case of male infant circumcision, it's quite the opposite; for the past century it's been presented as this good and wonderful and harmless and <i>"medically beneficial"</i> thing.<br /></p><blockquote><i><br />We need to understand that over 90% of what we call 'female circumcision' involves what WHO classifes as Types 1, and that's divided up into types A and B, and Types 2, A and B as well. So for instance, the </i><i>Dawoodi Bohra case that has become quite talked about in recent weeks with the doctor, the female doctor, Dr. Nagarwala I believe, in Michigan, their community, their Shia Muslim, you know, quiet community here in the United States, their community performs, first of all they perform circumcision on boys, we'll get to that in a moment, and they perform Type 1 A circumcision, which is a nick, a nick of the prepuce, the foreskin of the clitoris."<br /><br /></i></blockquote><p>Exactly. She's on point.</p><p>Advocates of male infant circumcision would like people to believe that female genital cutting is "much, much worse" without actually ever making comparisons. The argument usually goes something like this:</p><p>Male infant circumcision advocate:<br />"Female infant circumcision is so much worse."</p><p>Skeptic:<br />"So let's discuss it."</p><p>Male infant circumcision advocate:<br />"How dare you compare them! You just can't! So don't!"</p><p>I'm SO glad to see a woman discussing this; I'm usually shut down because I'm male. Well, here is an actual woman who has undergone so-called "FGM."<br /></p><blockquote><i><b>Carlson:</b><br />"That is not actually what is illegal as far as I understand. What I understand is the removal of an entire portion of the female sex organ without the consent of the child. Now, you underwent this as an adult; there's a quantum difference between making a decision to do something like that, and having that decision made for you that cannot be reversed as a child. That seems to me, probably the worst thing you can do to a child."<br /></i></blockquote><p> </p><p>Here again, Carlson brings up the elephant in the room when it comes to male infant circumcision; the consent of the person involved for a decision that cannot be reversed. This is precisely it, Tucker! You've got it!<br /></p><blockquote><i><br /><b>Ahmadu:</b><br />"OK, so back to the case of the </i><i>Dawoodi Bohra doctor who is now in prison waiting trial, she is accused, she's charged with FGM, mutilating 7yo girls , he performed nicks, nicks, Type 1 A to the clitoral foreskin. (Carlson tries to interrupt) But it's really important because what's happened it's the activists who have made the term female genital mutilation they've conflated it with all these different practices..."<br /></i></blockquote><p> </p><p>Yes! It's a nick! So small! And she's completely right. This shouldn't be a problem. Not if it's OK to slice off a chunk of flesh from a child's penis. <br /></p><blockquote><i><br /><b>Carlson:</b><br />"Some of these activists are victims of the practice itself. And we've interviewed them on this set. And they have said this has affected my life and my happiness, and my ability to experience happiness in a profound way, and it's totally barbaric, and guess I don't buy the 'hey it's a different culture,' well so is throwing widows on the pyre, and it's still wrong."<br /></i></blockquote><p> <br />Tucker sounds like he could be on the intactivist team! Except when Fuambai actually throws his own logic in his face.</p><p>Yes, Tucker. <i>"It's a different culture"</i> shouldn't justify slicing parts of children's genitals without their consent. You are right on the money.<br /></p><blockquote><i><br /><b>Ahmadu:</b><br />"...and I absolutely agree with you, Tucker, but there's one thing I want to correct. You've said it removes a vital part of the female genital anatomy, alright? And is it OK to say if I actually that part is? Because there's a misconception about actually, you know, what these surgeries entail. There is no female circumcision procedure that removes the clitoris of a woman. It is absolutely impossible to remove a woman's clitoris without killing her. What is exposed is a tiny fraction of what is actually an extensive organ.<br /></i></blockquote><p><br />Again. Fuambai is on point.</p><p>And here too is an argument that male infant circumcision advocates like to use; the foreskin isn't a VITAL part of man's anatomy, is it? Since it isn't "vital," then it should be OK for parents to have doctors remove it in their children. After all, they can still have fulfilling lives, sexual or otherwise, what's the real "harm?"</p><p>This argument works in the case of female genital cutting. If it's not actually removing anything "vital," what's actually wrong with it? Why can't parents choose to have doctors do this? It's the same argument.<br /></p><blockquote><i><br /><b>Carlson:</b><br />"I'm going to stop you there and before we get too into it, I'm gonna just... lemme just say... (he's interrupting) Would you concede, because there are a lot of women who feel mutilated by this, this is being led by women, that maybe we should let adults make this decision and not imposed on six year olds? Is that fair?"<br /></i></blockquote><p><br />(Clap, clap, clap...) BRAVO, Tucker. Bravo.</p><p>Now if only you could agree to carry this argument through its logical conclusion... <br /></p><blockquote><i><br /><b>Ahmadu:</b><br />"Well here's what I think. There are a lot of men, right? ...who have experience male infant circumcision who say that this is mutilation. In fact, in the courtroom, when Dr. Nagarwala appeared in court, there were protesters outside they were not anti-FGM protesters...<br /><br /></i></blockquote><p>Jesus Christ! Who's side is this Fuambai woman on?</p><p>Intactivists could easily confuse her as one of our own.</p><p>She's completely right.</p><p>The one thing that I would have to say to this is that far from being an "experience," a lot of men have graphic evidence that circumcision has indeed harmed them, because their procedures resulted in severe deformity of their organs. It is verifiably, objectively true that, to many men, circumcision has resulted in "mutilation" as defined by opponents of FGM.</p><p>Of course, in my book, unless there is medical or clinical indication, slicing ANY part of a healthy, non-consenting person's body off is "mutilation." <br /></p><blockquote><i><b>Carlson:</b><br />(Interrupts again) But that's not an argument for female circumcision...<br /></i></blockquote><p> <br />Tucker, yes it is. Readers, scroll back up. Did he, or did he not bring up that <i>"there are a lot of women who feel mutilated by this, this is being
led by women, that maybe we should let adults make this decision and not
imposed on six year olds?"</i></p><p>Sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander, Tucker.<i> <br /></i></p><blockquote><i><br /><b>Ahmadu:</b><br />"What I'm saying is, you're saying to me that there are opponents to female circumcision...<br /><b><br />Carlson:</b><br />"Look as you know, there's a lot of research, and I don't want to get into the circumcision debate on men, but there is research that shows that there are profound medical advantages in that, there is no research that shows there's any medical advantage in female genital mutilation.<br /></i></blockquote><p> <br />Classic.</p><p>Notice here how his own argument of consent and letting adults make their own decision flies right out the window...<br /></p><blockquote><i><br /><b>Ahmadu:</b><br />"First of all, that research is contested. There's a lot of research that shows that yes there IS harm, there IS risk. There are over a hundred deaths, a hundred deaths each year from male circumcision.<br /></i></blockquote><p> <br />THIS WOMAN! Fuambai, you're an intactivist!!!<br /></p><blockquote><i><br /><b>Carlson:</b><br />"Look, I don't want to... that's... that's a separate show... and I'm open-minded but, but, but what you're doing is not making...<br /></i></blockquote><p><br />Poor Tucker... walked into his own trap on this one... <br /></p><blockquote><i><br /><b>Ahmadu:</b><br />"You're saying we're abusing girls...<br /></i></blockquote><p><br />That's what he said, Fuambai... <br /></p><blockquote><i><br /><b>Carlson:</b><br />"But that's like saying... you know we can't ban weed because beer is legal... it's two separate arguments..."<br /></i></blockquote><p><br />Talk about attacking a straw man... what does weed and beer, two substances that adults choose to take out of their own accord, have to do with the arguments at hand, that of the severity of genital cutting and the consent of the individual... <br /></p><blockquote><i><br /><b>Ahmadu:</b><br />"You are accepting that it is OK to perform a much more intensive or, invasive procedure on boys...<br /></i></blockquote><p> <br />When she dies, Fuambai Ahmadu needs to be made an intactivist saint...<br /></p><blockquote><i><br /><b>Carlson:</b><br />"No, I'm not accepting that I'm just saying that this is bad to do to little girls it's pretty simple...<br /></i></blockquote><p><br />But OK to do to little boys... <br /></p><blockquote><i><br /><b>Ahmadu:</b><br />"I disagree. I think that if we accept it in American society that we do remove the foreskin on boys, we do practice genital cutting here, in the US, on boys, then it should not be impossible to understand that there are cultures and societies that practice what certain people are now calling gender inclusive genital surgery.<br /></i></blockquote><p> <br />BINGO.<br /></p><blockquote><i><b><br />Carlson:</b><br />"Well I just don't want it in my culture, in my society, I guess it's what it all comes down to."<br /></i></blockquote><p><br />As his society mutilates 1.4 million boys annually... <br /></p><blockquote><i><br /><b>Ahmadu:</b><br />"So what, it's OK to cut BOYS in your society?"<br /></i></blockquote><p> <br />YOU GO, GIRL!!!<br /></p><blockquote><i><br /><b>Carlson:</b><br />"I'm just saying I don't want THIS. I think it's awful."<br /></i></blockquote><p> <br />Yes to this, but no to that.<br /><br />The words "ad hoc" and "special pleading" come to mind...<br /></p><blockquote><i><br /><b>Ahmadu:</b><br />"Well we don't in our culture we don't discriminate. You know, we have gender egalitarian surgeries. We do not discriminate."<br /><br /><b>Carlon:</b><br />"We're out of time I feel that we could finish the hour... I'd probably die of embarrassment but thank you very much..."<br /><br /><b>Ahmadu:</b><br />"You're welcome."</i></blockquote><p><br />Poor Tucker... clearly here tripping over his own arguments, and clearly his attacking the straw men of beer and weed isn't working and he can't stand it so he's got to end the segment...</p><p>But see, neither of them is wrong. They're both absolutely correct.</p><p>Both of these individuals make the case as to why forcibly cutting the genitals of boys, and girls, is wrong.</p><p>Tucker Carlson, quite rightly so, points out that this is a decision that needs to be made by consenting adults, and he makes no exception for culture. He says <i>"I don't want this in my culture,"</i> but then recoils when he is faced with the fact that his own culture already accepts the forcible cutting of minors.</p><p>Fuambai Ahmadu is on point when she talks about gender egalitarianism and non-discrimination, albeit in the wrong direction. She's right though.</p><p><i>"..if we accept it in American society that we do remove the foreskin on
boys, we do practice genital cutting here, in the US, on boys, then it
should not be impossible to understand that there are cultures and
societies that practice what certain people are now calling gender
inclusive genital surgery."</i></p><p>Absolutely on point.</p><p>However, conversely, if we oppose it in American society, the forced cutting of healthy, non-consenting girls without their consent, regard for culture or religion, then the same should be true of the forced cutting of healthy, non-consenting boys, regardless of culture, religion or otherwise.</p><p>Though it's on Fox, I thought this was an excellent interview and an excellent representation of how the circumcision debate usually goes, with the absolute meltdown when male and female genital cutting is discussed in the the same breath, the refusal to acknowledge that they are the same issue.</p><p>Spot on.<br /></p><p></p><p><b>Related Posts:</b><br /><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/06/circumcision-is-child-abuse-picture.html">Circumcision is Child Abuse: A Picture Essay</a></p><p><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/02/politically-correct-research-when.html">Politically Correct Research: When Science, Morals and Political Agendas Collide</a></p><p><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2017/06/courtroom-showdown-religious-freedom-on.html">COURTROOM SHOWDOWN: Religious Freedom on Trial</a></p><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2018/11/detroit-federal-ban-on-fgm-declared.html">DETROIT: Federal Ban on FGM Declared Unconstitutional</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/09/repost-of-ecstasy-and-rape-surgery-and.html">REPOST: Of Ecstasy and Rape, Surgery and Mutilation</a>
</div><p> </p>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-69750662356228668832021-12-13T14:35:00.001-08:002021-12-13T14:35:49.536-08:00Anne Rice, Willfully Ignorant Male Genital Mutilation Apologist Dies<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJhSbHDmIFmncLi-XujKU_9gygTKgY9M9DfjpyoeSxcJz9S7G-3UWZ7WCAHPNPsQfwZzJZaAtWPNGZLKZw3FNerPwaf491YmIh5Q64bvTWhl7hSgAGyREvrMZg568J1Ay2uzxxn3dme1Tj6Gx49JB6peJSgcBmdaF3ypvqS7q4baMS2tnVBFH-DLE=s976" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="976" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJhSbHDmIFmncLi-XujKU_9gygTKgY9M9DfjpyoeSxcJz9S7G-3UWZ7WCAHPNPsQfwZzJZaAtWPNGZLKZw3FNerPwaf491YmIh5Q64bvTWhl7hSgAGyREvrMZg568J1Ay2uzxxn3dme1Tj6Gx49JB6peJSgcBmdaF3ypvqS7q4baMS2tnVBFH-DLE=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>Recently I ran across news that <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59627125">Anne Rice has finally kicked the bucket at 80</a>.</p><p>And good riddance.</p><p>I couldn't stand how <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/04/anne-rice-misandrist-attention-whore.html">she threw children and men under the bus to pander to her feminist base and boost her book sales</a>.</p><p>As <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2016/08/edgar-schoen-americas-circumcision.html">more advocates of male genital mutilation croak</a>, the world becomes a better place for current and future generations.</p><p>Fuck her.</p><p>Fuck anyone who insists on continuing to push the false narrative that <i>"male and female circumcision aren't the same"</i> and that men have all the attention when it comes to genital mutilation and that men attempt to <i>"shove women to the back of the bus"</i> in this regard. <br /></p><p>It's feminists and anti-female genital mutilation activists and organizations that hog the limelight and piss on the rights of boys and men.</p><p>To push the narrative that <i>"men bring up male circumcision while women suffering genital mutilation struggle to find a voice"</i> as countless organizations dedicate themselves to raise awareness of FGM in Africa as they ignore boys and men who die in circumcision initiation rituals has got to be the ultimate misandrist grift.<br /></p><p>Ding dong the witch is dead.</p><p>I can't wait until all willfully ignorant advocates of male genital mutilation die out.</p><p>Then the world will be a better place for ALL. <br /></p><p>Willfully ignorant misandrist bitch.</p><p><b>Related Posts:</b><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/04/anne-rice-misandrist-attention-whore.html"><br />ANNE RICE: Misandrist Attention Whore</a></p><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2016/08/edgar-schoen-americas-circumcision.html">EDGAR SCHOEN: America's Circumcision Champion Dies</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/06/circumcision-is-child-abuse-picture.html">Circumcision is Child Abuse: A Picture Essay</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/02/politically-correct-research-when.html">Politically Correct Research: When Science, Morals and Political Agendas Collide</a></div><p><b>External Links:</b><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59627125"><br />Anne Rice, author of Interview with the Vampire, dies aged 80</a></p>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-29622644425375800952021-12-12T14:01:00.000-08:002021-12-12T14:01:02.450-08:00AUSTRALIA: One Child Dies, Another Nearly Bleeds to Death Post Circumcision<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpnkVLJIBuEAo6y5bml0Qj2kAJfPDWxGZF2oclCWZsj6g6j0zu83_qG8Czx0_Xoyrj-b44h4bsu3G10yQaSlKDyaqEw4WFmeQNpy20mferD9qB5BIXL5SYHcdN02xnztvNElZ0pgSmzhtwIBRCf85mlc-dSrEJS35gSMZajm1bTJnQAlNyf4xLbkg=s650" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="650" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpnkVLJIBuEAo6y5bml0Qj2kAJfPDWxGZF2oclCWZsj6g6j0zu83_qG8Czx0_Xoyrj-b44h4bsu3G10yQaSlKDyaqEw4WFmeQNpy20mferD9qB5BIXL5SYHcdN02xnztvNElZ0pgSmzhtwIBRCf85mlc-dSrEJS35gSMZajm1bTJnQAlNyf4xLbkg=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>Hey readers... I know it's been a while, but as noted earlier, I just don't have time to post anymore. I felt this was worth posting and I wasn't going to let it get away.</p><p>Every once in a while, a circumcision mishap makes the news. I say this, because as a follower of circumcision stories on Facebook, there are a lot of stories that just don't. When I can, I post on here, but it's not always possible.</p><p>Even this post is going to be rather brief because I need to get ready for work and I don't have the time to write in all the details as I'd like. Instead I'm going to post links to various articles so readers can go check out the story for themselves. <br /></p><p>At any rate, one child has died in Perth, Australia, and another has nearly bled to death.</p><p>As is the usual case, doctors and reporters are already trying to shift blame away from circumcision and are studiously avoiding talking about the fact that as male infant circumcision is cosmetic, non-medical procedure in healthy, non-consenting individuals, and that these deaths should have never happened.</p><p>Here is a list of news articles; I'll let the reader make their own judgement:</p><p><a href="https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/toddler-dies-baby-fighting-for-life-after-allegedly-botched-circumcision-at-perth-medical-clinic/news-story/41628ee49bf89a56d1f244aca7ee13a7"></a></p><blockquote><p><a href="https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/toddler-dies-baby-fighting-for-life-after-allegedly-botched-circumcision-at-perth-medical-clinic/news-story/41628ee49bf89a56d1f244aca7ee13a7">Toddler dies, baby fighting for life after allegedly botched circumcision at Perth medical clinic</a> <br /></p><p><a href="https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/likely-cause-of-wa-toddlers-death-after-circumcision-revealed/news-story/fe6e7119195b4da06c7b9a1b3a3c526d">Likely cause of WA toddler’s death after circumcision revealed</a></p><p><a href="https://7news.com.au/news/perth/toddler-dead-infant-rushed-to-life-saving-surgery-after-circumcision-gone-wrong-in-perth-c-4874452">Toddler dead, infant rushed into life-saving surgery after medical procedure goes wrong in Perth</a> </p><p><a href="https://7news.com.au/news/wa/perth-toddler-who-died-after-circumcision-had-adverse-reaction-to-anaesthetic-officials-say-c-4885050">Perth toddler who died after circumcision had adverse reaction to anaesthetic, officials say</a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/dec/09/toddler-dies-and-baby-brother-in-serious-condition-after-circumcisions-at-perth-clinic">Toddler dies and baby brother left in serious condition after circumcisions at Perth clinic</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-09/boy-dies-after-circumcision-in-perth-southern-suburbs/100687108">Boy dies after circumcision in Perth's southern suburbs</a></p><p><a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/toddler-dies-baby-fighting-for-life-after-botched-circumcision-at-australian-medical-centre/YZPRK4DKJY66XKFXQFOALTSTQM/">Toddler dies, baby fighting for life after 'botched circumcision' at Australian medical centre</a></p></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/toddler-dies-baby-fighting-for-life-after-botched-circumcision-at-australian-medical-centre/YZPRK4DKJY66XKFXQFOALTSTQM/"></a></p><p>At least one doctor has his head on straight:</p><p><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10293843/Circumcision-warning-two-year-old-dies-brother-bleeds-Western-Australia.html"></a></p><blockquote><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10293843/Circumcision-warning-two-year-old-dies-brother-bleeds-Western-Australia.html">Parents are warned against circumcising their children after a toddler, 2, died 'of a reaction to anaesthetic' and his baby brother almost bled out</a> </blockquote><p>The spin of these news articles seem very suspicious.<br /><br />As a follower of circumcision stories, I observe a tendency for news reporters, especially reporters in countries where circumcision is a normalized procedure, to want to shift blame away from and vindicate male infant circumcision.</p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><p><i>"It was an allergic reaction."</i></p><p><i>"The child suffered from bleeding problems."</i></p><p><i>"The doctor was incompetent."</i></p></blockquote><p><i></i></p><p>All these reasons and excuses as to why readers should overlook the fact that a child has died from medically unnecessary procedure.</p><p><b>Shouldn't have doctors known before?</b><br />A few things aren't adding up here.<br /><br />Let's just assume for the sake of argument that the children were undergoing medically indicated surgery. (Which they weren't.)<br /><br />An allergic reaction to general anesthesia, even local anesthesia is, or should be a serious concern, and so should a history of hemophilia, as these could prove fatal.<br /><br />So what is the reason the doctors involved, the anesthesiologist, the surgeon, the doctor who consulted these parents, did not order tests and analyses to make sure the children would survive the surgery?<br /><br />Why are these even to blame?<br /><br />From experience, I recently had to have knee surgery to have my anterior crucial ligament (ACL) repaired. At least in my case, in addition to questioning my family history for hemophilia and allergic reactions to drugs and anesthesia, the doctor ordered blood tests and analyses weeks ahead of my surgery.<br /><br />Is this not standard procedure at all hospitals or clinics?<br /><br />What is the reason these have become the culprit and not the incompetent doctors?<br /><br />And it isn't it convenient that the first child died of an "allergic reaction" while the other nearly bled to death?<br /><br />The two children are related; why was only one found to be allergic to anesthesia but not the other?<br /><br />I'm no expert or coroner, but I suspect the OTHER child died of uncontrollable bleeding too, except doctors want to save their skins, avoid malpractice lawsuits while keeping male infant circumcision as a source of income, so they shifted the blame, and, as is the usual case, reporters, who may be circumcised and/or parents of circumcised children themselves, are complicit.<br /><br />The elephant in the room here, however, is that without medical or clinical indication, doctors have no business performing surgery on healthy, non-consenting minors, let alone giving parents any kind of a "choice."<br /><br />Whether or not blood tests or allergy analyses were conducted are secondary, as far as I'm concerned, because these surgeries were not medically indicated, and should have never happened in the first place.<br /><br />The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) policy statement on male circumcision states:</p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><i> "After reviewing the currently available evidence, the RACP believes that the frequency of diseases modifiable by circumcision, the level of protection offered by circumcision and the complication rates of circumcision do not warrant routine infant circumcision in Australia and New Zealand."</i></blockquote>This is in sharp contrast to the <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2012/08/aap-around-bush-and-closer-to-nowhere.html">American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) circumcision policy statement of 2012</a>, which attempts to vindicate, but never quite coming to a recommendation circumcision, saying both that <i>"the benefits outweigh the risks,"</i> and that <i>"[the benefits] are not enough to recommend circumcision."</i><p></p><p>It should be noted that Australia and the US also have starkly different rates of male infant circumcision, Australia, fewer than 20% according to <a href="https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/circumcision">BetterHealth</a>, and at about 56%, according to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6034a4.htm?s_cid=mm6034a4_w">CDC</a>.</p><p>While the trend in other English-speaking countries is to recommend AWAY from male infant circumcision, American physicians strive to hang on.</p><p>What's it going to take for American doctors and world medicine in general to recognize that male infant circumcision is needless and potentially life-threatening?</p><p><b>Closing Statement</b><br />
The foreskin is not a birth defect. Neither is it a congenital
deformity or genetic anomaly akin to a 6th finger or a cleft. Neither is
it a medical condition like a ruptured appendix or diseased gall
bladder. Neither is it a dead part of the body, like the umbilical
cord, hair, or fingernails.<br />
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The foreskin is not "extra skin." The foreskin is normal, natural,
healthy, functioning tissue, present in all males at birth; it is as
intrinsic to male genitalia as labia are to female genitalia.<br />
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Unless there is a medical or clinical indication, the circumcision of a
healthy, non-consenting individuals is a deliberate wound; it is
the destruction of normal, healthy tissue, the permanent
disfigurement of normal, healthy organs, and by very definition,
infant genital mutilation, and a violation of the most basic of
human rights.</p><p>The risks of circumcision include infection, hemorrhage, partial or full ablation and even death.<br />
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Without medical or clinical indication, doctors have absolutely no
business performing surgery in healthy, non-consenting individuals, much
less be eliciting any kind of "decision" from parents.<br /></p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">
<b>Related Posts:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2015/09/canada-cps-diverges-from-aap-on-infant.html">CANADA: CPS Diverges from AAP on Infant Circumcision</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/03/out-of-line-aap-circumcision-policy.html">OUT OF LINE: AAP Circumcision Policy Statement Formally Rejected</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/03/tu-quoque-aap-fends-off-accusations-of.html">TU QUOQUE: The AAP Fends Off Accusations of Bias</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2012/08/washington-post-great-controversy.html">WASHINGTON POST: The "Great Controversy" Strikes Again</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2012/12/the-circumcision-blame-game.html">The Circumcision Blame Game</a>
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2017/05/madera-ca-another-circumcision.html">MADERA, CA: Another Circumcision Complication</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2017/03/circumcision-botch-another-post.html">CIRCUMCISION BOTCH: Another Post-Circumcision Hemorrhage Case Surfaces on Facebook</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2017/02/law-suit-child-loses-significant.html"><span>LAW SUIT: Child Loses "Significant Portion" of Penis During Circ</span>umcision</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2017/01/circumcision-botches-colombia-and.html">CIRCUMCISION BOTCHES: Colombia and Malaysia</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2017/01/circumcision-death-this-time-in-russia.html">CIRCUMCISION DEATH: This Time in Russia</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2016/09/facebook-kentucky-botched-circumcision.html">FACEBOOK: KENTUCKY - Botched Circumcision Gives Newborn Severe UTI</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2016/05/circumcision-death-this-time-in-italy.html">CIRCUMCISION DEATH: This Time in Italy</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2015/10/circumcision-death-child-dies-after.html">CIRCUMCISION DEATH: Child Dies After Doctor Convinces Ontario Couple to Circumcise</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2015/10/ontario-circumcision-death-plot-thickens.html">ONTARIO CIRCUMCISION DEATH: The Plot Thickens</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2015/06/phony-phimosis-how-american-doctors-get.html">Phony Phimosis: How American Doctors Get Away With Medical Fraud</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2016/06/facebook-two-more-babies-nearly-succumb.html">FACEBOOK: Two More Babies Nearly Succumb to Post Circumcision Hemorrhage</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2016/03/facebook-another-circumcision-mishap.html">FACEBOOK: Another Circumcision Mishap - Baby Hemorrhaging After Circumcision</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2015/11/what-your-dr-doesnt-know-could-hurt.html">What Your Dr. Doesn't Know Could Hurt Your Child</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2016/02/facebook-child-in-nicu-after-lung.html">FACEBOOK: Child in NICU After Lung Collapses During Circumcision</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2016/07/emirates-circumcision-claims-another.html">EMIRATES: Circumcision Claims Another Life</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2016/07/babycenter-keeping-us-parents-in-dark.html">BabyCenter Keeping US Parents In the Dark About Circumcision</a><br />
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<a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2015/10/texas-nother-circumcision-botch.html">TEXAS: 'Nother Circumcision Botch</a>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-53566948298731302732021-07-02T07:01:00.000-07:002021-07-02T07:01:12.735-07:00Washington Daily News Publishes OBGYN Circumcision Misinformation Piece<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8JUehHljRXH11yx4PKoX6cfhUOBnzJFlkOteKwL3u3D9FuPLd6Lp1XlmzUDEeh4QxgI2Bsva-TMYzjW1kaoLl1rnRds4_it0zH4iNoX-6QnljAvAhAhQizDfHQTAY0vYl44XF7Fgm13Y/s1125/AA183EBD-2900-4F9B-9367-16B7E0455F51.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="1125" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8JUehHljRXH11yx4PKoX6cfhUOBnzJFlkOteKwL3u3D9FuPLd6Lp1XlmzUDEeh4QxgI2Bsva-TMYzjW1kaoLl1rnRds4_it0zH4iNoX-6QnljAvAhAhQizDfHQTAY0vYl44XF7Fgm13Y/w400-h261/AA183EBD-2900-4F9B-9367-16B7E0455F51.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">I’d never heard of the Washington Daily News until today, when I saw this scroll up on my Facebook news feed:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOvYGInjE6fVdSjYB_GEAfFGurS1uFHjqqDTwS1V3pfDJyYwdUI-YpuJr2E796QqDwVfqX9B2bBBlpkikJ1WatZ9ABcpB01JeSjGOvWpXCS2pdZAjfZbX0iNKpRcm57R8_sTFW4p1bHKE/s2018/5D823909-4246-40BE-81C9-D9F0BB909E25.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2018" data-original-width="1125" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOvYGInjE6fVdSjYB_GEAfFGurS1uFHjqqDTwS1V3pfDJyYwdUI-YpuJr2E796QqDwVfqX9B2bBBlpkikJ1WatZ9ABcpB01JeSjGOvWpXCS2pdZAjfZbX0iNKpRcm57R8_sTFW4p1bHKE/w356-h640/5D823909-4246-40BE-81C9-D9F0BB909E25.jpeg" width="356" /></a></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">I wanted to see if anything had changed in terms of the misinformation dispensed on American mass media. I clicked, and sure enough, it's a self-serving doctor repeating the same myths and misinformation regarding male infant genital cosmetic surgery.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">I'm not sure exactly what kind of article this is supposed to be. Is it a news article? An opinion piece? It's not immediately obvious what this is supposed to be. It looks a lot like a paid advertisement. The user allowed to publish is one "Vidant Health." Scroll further down and it's one "Dr. Bonnie Corley of Vidant Women's Care." Presumably she's a doctor working for Vidant and she is plugging the business and attempting to justify a practice OB/GYNs hold the lion's share for; male infant circumcision.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s1"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEROWKsjb4d_xXLztwl4RLCNCjp4agmz4qNAnLC3FsJjCQee2xX8MA8_6zn65N7-lgPz2BhZhdPpYD9St4W8VfXH1wbVFwt_n1rY1JFVRfLA0L7jrxv1bZ7PXsyLdLYiW4HJPtLdOQUTU/s846/Peds+vs+OBGYNs.bmp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="846" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEROWKsjb4d_xXLztwl4RLCNCjp4agmz4qNAnLC3FsJjCQee2xX8MA8_6zn65N7-lgPz2BhZhdPpYD9St4W8VfXH1wbVFwt_n1rY1JFVRfLA0L7jrxv1bZ7PXsyLdLYiW4HJPtLdOQUTU/w400-h240/Peds+vs+OBGYNs.bmp" width="400" /></a></span></div><span class="s1"><br /> </span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">One would think that a publication that calls itself "Washington Daily News" would be interested publishing factual, accurate, verifiable information they've thoroughly investigated.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">You know? What most of us would call "journalism."</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Instead, it seems they've given this "doctor" a carte blanche to publish self-serving lies and nonsense.<br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><br /><b>Why is an OB/GYN talking about male genital surgery?</b> <br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">First, it must be asked why a doctor whose purview is WOMEN’S HEALTH is pushing male infant surgery.</span> It should strike readers as odd that a doctor who is supposed to deal in gynecology, the female reproductive system and women's health is pontificating on male anatomy and care.</p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This is supposed to be the territory of pediatricians and urologists. Yet here she is, spewing garbage she just doesn't know what she's talking about. Could they have not asked an actual expert in the field?</p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBh-_hbInRCPODZ8BfwbzuptaV3paD7MPBBaUewxVujCMgE7Yp0rgZdNHf7Tx0PMzVILUMVW_vf0RNBLba1NscitSF2bqL5SZlagrGtNUz8b_5W3YhBZryabKowsziy_kb2-n-SP7-pyk/s720/circ+blame+game+-+parody.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBh-_hbInRCPODZ8BfwbzuptaV3paD7MPBBaUewxVujCMgE7Yp0rgZdNHf7Tx0PMzVILUMVW_vf0RNBLba1NscitSF2bqL5SZlagrGtNUz8b_5W3YhBZryabKowsziy_kb2-n-SP7-pyk/s320/circ+blame+game+-+parody.PNG" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Pontificating in a field one has no business in has got to be against medical standards somehow. Why is this woman defending male infant genital mutilation?<span class="s1"> The answer is, as an OBGYN who attends pregnant women, they’ve got first dibs. <br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Not mentioned here is how much she makes per mutilation. Some hospitals charge <a href=" https://www.joseph4gi.com/2019/09/when-someone-says-its-not-money.html">up to $7,000</a> a pop.</span> It is estimated that 1.4 million American baby boys are being circumcised a year. This means that, at $7,000 per circumcision, American hospitals can be
making as much as $9,800,000,000 annually on circumcision alone. It's no wonder doctors and nurses gush on and on about male infant
circumcision; there is money to be made, and OB/GYNs, pediatricians and urologists are in competition.</p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYcQIIBcWd4ggeNMvauU_khzoplJrssI6n1uepGoX9lFP3PqWLaUJYRjA0wC1nvXNsnrgVXHhRRlCvsCngLglE9QjssPYobPPG_sMnP4CCt6fUUGggkGl5argcuXnCf6wedi11Z6XIKdA/s500/dr+money.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYcQIIBcWd4ggeNMvauU_khzoplJrssI6n1uepGoX9lFP3PqWLaUJYRjA0wC1nvXNsnrgVXHhRRlCvsCngLglE9QjssPYobPPG_sMnP4CCt6fUUGggkGl5argcuXnCf6wedi11Z6XIKdA/s320/dr+money.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2019/09/when-someone-says-its-not-money.html">When Someone Says It's Not the Money...</a> it's the money. It's always the money.</span></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>What Dr. Corley Omits and Why</b></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As stated above, circumcision brings in a pretty penny, so there is financial incentive for American doctors to highlight all what's good and wonderful about circumcision to parents, while downplaying, if not omitting all the downsides. Upton Sinclair once said:</p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"></span></p><blockquote><span class="s1"><i>“It’s difficult to get a [wo]man to understand something when [her] salary depends on [her] not understanding it."</i></span></blockquote><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In other words, doctors who perform circumcision have a conflict of interest in actually conveying factual information to parents. Honest doctors worth their salt would outright say there is no medical reason for performing surgery on a healthy, non-consenting minor. They would refuse to perform surgery on healthy children. In the United States, male infant circumcision is the one exception to this rule. In all other cases, reaping profit from elective non-medical surgery on healthy, non-consenting individuals constitutes "medical fraud."<br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"> I'm going to go down the article refuting all the lies Dr. Corley tells, and filling in all the information she omits.<br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;">First, male infant circumcision is no "small procedure." It is the removal of up to 50% of the penile skin. In babies, the foreskin may be a few square centimeters, but in adults, it can be as big as a 3x5 card. </p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"> </p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;">How much skin is removed is different in every circumcision as there is no real way to tell how much skin to remove. This, in and of itself is a problem; a circumcision could result in too much skin being removed, resulting in painful erections and sex. Or, a circumcision could remove too little skin, resulting in a foreskin that heals itself to the head of the penis, needing correction later on. Parents ought to be informed that male infant circumcision botch jobs are so common that there are actually<a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/05/circumcision-botches-and-elephant-in.html"> doctors who specialize in circumcision corrections</a>; children going in for circumcision revisions because the first doctor screwed it up are not unheard of.<br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;">Even in a circumcision that goes "according to plan," the head of the penis is permanently exposed, where it would have been covered and kept warm and moist by the foreskin. This results in layers upon layers of keratin, necessarily resulting in desensitization. Not talked about here is the Sorrells study that showed that circumcised men were desensitized by a factor of four. Lack of a foreskin dries out the head of the penis and surrounding mucosa, necessitating the need for artificial lubrication, like K-Y, vaseline or astroglide for masturbation and sex.<br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p>To contrast with the fact that 80% of American men are circumcised from birth, the doctor should have mentioned that 70% of men are intact globally. American parents ought to know that most men in the world are not circumcised and live their lives just fine. She doesn't talk about the fact that, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6034a4.htm?s_cid=mm6034a4_w">according to the CDC, male infant circumcision rates in the US have dropped to about 56%</a>, and still falling. But of course she doesn't say this; Corley is appealing to the "everybody's doing it" alibi.<br /><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">This focus on <i>“parents having circumcision performed on their children for perceived medical benefits in the US”</i> is wrong.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">DOCTORS push this non-medical surgery on parents for these reasons and then absolve themselves from this medical fraud by asking them to sign a consent form.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Male infant circumcision is the only cosmetic, non-essential surgery American doctors will perform on healthy, non-consenting minors. All other medical procedures require medical indication. Otherwise it’s medical fraud.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Let’s talk about the so-called <i>“benefits,”</i> shall we?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="s1">“Urinary tract infections are 90% less common in males who have been circumcised.”</span></i></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">How much less?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It takes around 100 circumcisions to prevent a single UTI, and UTIs can
be treated easily by other less invasive ways, like antibiotics. Not to
mention, it is easily prevented with basic hygiene. <br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="s1">“Circumcised men have a lower risk of developing cancer of the penis, HIV and probably herpes,"</span></i><span class="s1"> Corley says.<br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">“Probably?”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">First off, again, what is this difference? Is the doctor going to cite any medical literature?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Here is what the<a href="https://www.cancer.org/cancer/penile-cancer/causes-risks-prevention/prevention.html"> American Cancer Society</a> has to say about the matter:</span></p><p><span class="s1"></span></p><blockquote><p><i><span class="s1">"</span>In the past, circumcision (removing the foreskin on the penis) was
suggested as a way to lower penile cancer risk. This was based on
studies that reported much lower penile cancer rates among circumcised
men than among uncircumcised men. But in some studies, the protective
effect of circumcision wasn't seen after factors like smegma and
phimosis were taken into account. Still, some experts have said that
circumcision prevents penile cancer.
</i></p>
<p><i>In the US, the risk of penile cancer is low even among
uncircumcised men. Men who aren’t circumcised can help lower their risk
of penile cancer by practicing good genital hygiene." </i></p></blockquote><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Scrutinize the medical literature;<a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/04/circumcision-research-rehashed-findings.html"> a causal link between having a foreskin and a “higher risk of HIV” simply does not exist</a>.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Looking at world HIV data, the United States has one of the highest rates of HIV transmission in the world in spite of 80% of men being circumcised from birth. <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/02/where-circumcision-doesnt-prevent-hiv-ii.html">We have more HIV than Mexico</a>.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">The CDC reports the <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-04-14/americas-std-rate-at-record-high-again-cdc">US has higher STD rates</a> than European countries where circumcision is rare or not practiced.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Research actually shows <a href="https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20170519/circumcised-men-at-twice-the-risk-for-cancercausing-hpv-study-shows">circumcised males are at a higher risk for HPV</a>. In case you are “probably” worried about herpes or cervical cancer.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">What’s more, and here is the kicker, is that there simply isn’t a global epidemic for all of these things. 70% of men are intact globally and there simply isn’t a world epidemic of men’s penises rotting off, or women with cervical cancer in non-circumcising countries. Boys and men aren’t lining up at urologist’s office clamoring for circumcision.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">She’s right about penile cancer being rare and there now being HPV vaccines. In which case, what’s the point?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">She minimizes the risks as <i>"usually not serious."</i></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><i> </i></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The risks include <a href="http://archive.boston.com/news/health/articles/2009/04/11/state_details_safety_lapses_at_beth_israel/?page=2">infection</a>, <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/05/circumcision-botches-and-elephant-in.html">a botched circumcision that may have needed correction later on</a>, <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2015/04/mogen-circumcision-clamp-manufacturers.html">loss of part or all of his penis</a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/newborn-bleeds-death-after-doctor-persuades-parents-have-him-circumcised-canada-a6710061.html">hemorrhage</a>, <a href="https://med.stanford.edu/newborns/professional-education/circumcision/complications.html">septic shock</a>, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/health/la-xpm-2011-sep-26-la-he-circumcision-20110926-story.html">a penis that was mutilated beyond what is deemed <i>“acceptable,</i>”</a> , <a href="https://youtu.be/rXDoezKLZjc">painful erections</a> and <a href="https://nationalpost.com/health/ontario-newborn-bleeds-to-death-after-family-doctor-persuades-parents-to-get-him-circumcised">death</a>, not to mention the inevitability of keratinization and eventual desensitization.<span class="s1"> Hemorrhage is THE MOST common complication that sends circumcised children to the ER.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Injury to the penis has not only been reported, there have been very public <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/national/atlanta-lawyer-wins-million-lawsuit-for-family-botched-circumcision/P9Jewrh4v1GWStqGyfejiP/">million dollar lawsuits</a>. Just Google them. “Appear very rare” to whom? A greedy OB/GYN with dollar signs in her eyes? Serious complications are COMMON. SO common that there are lawyers who specialize in taking circumcision cases.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">The following is a comment taken from the comment section, written by known circumcision David Llewellyn:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"> </span><br /><span class="s1"></span></p><blockquote><span class="s1"><i>"As a lawyer I have represented many boys and men who have either lost
too much shaft skin or lost part of the end of the penis (and in one
case all of the end) as a result of a botched circumcision or bad post
circumcision care. From what I can tell I expect that 30% or so of boys
and men who were circumcised at birth have had too much skin removed
from their penile shafts. So, even though there are no really good
studies on errors, I think the error rate is quite high. In my
experience deposing doctors I have found that few docs understand the
penile skin system. Also,the article is in error when it states that
there are no studies showing a decrease in sensitivity. The article by
Sorrells, et al. in BJU International in 2007 showed that the foreskin
is the most sensitive part of the penis. This article has never been
refuted. It defies common sense to think that you can remove the
protective covering of the glans, tissue that is full of specialized
nerve endings, and not reduce sensitivity. A study from Belgium by
Bronselaer, et atl in BJU Int'l in 2013 showed a decrease in
sensitivity. In fact, reduction in sensitivity was one of the initial
reasons given for circumcision in this country in the late 19th Century.
In summary, circumcision is risky and damaging and should not be
performed unless there is a real medical necessity, which is very, very
rare. Most of the world is not circumcised and gets along just fine.
Uncircumcised Europe has less STDs and other penile problems than does
the heavily circumcised U.S. Sadly, this article merely repeats the
prejudiced views of circumcised U.S. doctors who profit from the
continuation of this needless and damaging surgery."</i></span></blockquote><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1">His website is: </span><a href="http://thecircumcisionlawyer.com">David J Llewellyn: The Circumcision Lawyer</a></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><i>“The risk of not having a circumcision in infancy is largely related to difficulties in keeping the uncircumcised penis clean,” </i>says Corley, but again, real world data shows that this simply isn’t a problem. Care during menstruation is more meticulous and complex. Boys and men in the world simply have no difficulty cleaning themselves.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="s1">“When bacteria and debris are trapped between the foreskin and glans, infections can result causing scarring known as phimosis, which prevents the foreskin from being retracted.”</span></i><span class="s1"> she continues.</span><i><span class="s1"><br /></span></i></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">This speaks to Corley's ignorance, willful or genuine, on the matter.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Phimosis is a fibrotic ring caused by lesions as a result of an infection of balanitis xerotica obliterans, or BXO for short. It is not caused by <i>“bacteria and debris being trapped between the foreskin and the glans.”</i></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">And this can’t happen to newborns and children, where the foreskin is adhered to the glans until puberty by a bio-preputial lamina known as “synechia.” The foreskin not retracting during infancy is not “phimosis” but a normal stage in male development.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">True phimosis is vanishingly rare, at less than 1%, and it occurs in adults.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="s1">“Another condition is paraphimosis, in which the foreskin retracts and cannot be returned to its normal position," </span></i><span class="s1">Corley says.</span><i><span class="s1"><br /></span></i></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">This is usually caused by the doctor or the parents he instructs, insisting a child should have his foreskin retracted for “cleaning.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Please see <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2016/09/phimosis-lost-knowledge-missing-in.html">this post</a> for information this doctor SHOULD have been taught and SHOULD BE telling parents. <br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="s1">“These conditions may need to be eventually treated with circumcision, and the procedure is likely more painful and traumatizing to older children and adults than it is for infants,” </span></i><span class="s1">Corley goes on.<br /></span><i><span class="s1"></span></i></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Self-serving scare tactics.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">These conditions are rare, iatrogenic and completely preventable.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Note; 70% of men are not circumcised globally. The rest are usually circumcised out of religious or cultural custom. Where is the epidemic of “problems” causing world-wide circumcise demand?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">And the <i>“more painful and traumatizing”</i> canard is appeal to emotion; ALL surgery is traumatizing to an older child or an adult. Let’s imagine, for a moment, a reality where all surgery a child may go through as an adult is administered to him in infancy to “spare him the pain.” Ridiculous.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Very few men have conditions for which circumcision is medically indicated. In children it should NEVER be a problem; children who “need to be circumcised” are usually GIVEN their problems by American doctors and their harmful advice. As already mentioned before, there isn’t an epidemic of children or men with “problems” in non-circumcising countries.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="s1">“There is no data available on the number of males who are circumcised for medical reasons after the newborn period.”</span></i></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Which is a testament to how vanishingly rare these cases are. And here, Corley is lying, because <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2016/09/phimosis-lost-knowledge-missing-in.html">yes there is</a>, albeit limited.</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="s1">“Uncircumcised boys should be taught the importance of washing beneath the foreskin on a regular basis once the foreskin is fully retractable.” </span></i><span class="s1">says Corley.<br /></span><i><span class="s1"></span></i></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Just as uncircumcised women must be taught to clean out their labia and vulva. Actually, male hygiene is much simpler. This doctor is an OBGYN. She ought to know.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="s1">“One of the best arguments against circumcision is that the child is being subjected to a surgical procedure that he cannot consent to and which is often being performed as a culturally accepted cosmetic procedure.”</span></i><span class="s1"> Corley continues.<br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Let’s talk about FGM. That’s also a culturally accepted cosmetic procedure where it is performed. And let’s talk about a doctor’s duty to medicine, not cultural brokerage.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Lack of consent for elective, non-medical procedure is quite possibly the biggest problem for doctors like Corley; in any other case, reaping profit from non-medical surgery on healthy, non-consenting individuals constitutes medical fraud.</p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But this isn’t the only problem; the risks of infection, partial or full ablation, hemorrhage and even death are also important arguments against circumcision. Because male infant circumcision is elective, cosmetic surgery, any risk above zero is unconscionable.</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="s1">“Some opponents of circumcision suggest that the procedure should not be performed until the child is old enough to understand the risks and give consent to the procedure. However as previously noted, at that time it will be more painful and expensive, and the recovery period needed after surgery will be longer.” - </span></i><span class="s1">More self-serving promotion.<br /></span><i><span class="s1"></span></i></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">The pain and recovery are true of any surgery. Medically necessary circumcision is vanishingly rare. In contrast, complications are common. A child could end up with an aesthetically displeasing penis, lose it completely, or his life.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="s1">“Because there are known health benefits from male circumcision, its use has been supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2012, and also by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.”</span></i></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">False.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2012/08/aap-around-bush-and-closer-to-nowhere.html">In 2012, the AAP concluded</a> that the<i> “benefits”</i> of circumcision were <i>“not enough to recommend the procedure.”</i> In the same policy statement, they said that <i>“the true incidence of complications after newborn circumcision is unknown.”</i></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And ACOG only support it because it’s a money maker for them. The AAP released a policy statement in 2012 after a review of all existing medical literature on the matter; ACOG did no such review and only ever cite the AAP for “support.”</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="s1">“Overall it is seen as potentially beneficial and rarely harmful, but every family should weigh the risks and benefits of this procedure and decide if it is right for them,” </span></i><span class="s1">she continues.<br /></span><i><span class="s1"></span></i></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Absolving the doctor of any responsibility.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Isn’t “weigh the risks and benefits” of a medical procedure and determining its necessity the DOCTOR’s job?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">And where does Corley get “rarely harmful” from?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Let me repeat; In 2012, the AAP concluded that the<i> “benefits”</i> of circumcision were <i>“not enough to recommend the procedure.”</i> In the same policy statement, they said that <i>“the true incidence of complications after newborn circumcision is unknown.”</i></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">How are lay parents expected to come to a more reasonable conclusion?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="s1">“In the end most people probably make the choice based on cultural values," </span></i><span class="s1">Corley concludes.<br /></span><i><span class="s1"></span></i></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">In any other case, reaping profit from performing elective, non-medical surgery on healthy, non-consenting individuals constitutes “medical fraud.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Without medical or clinical indication, how is it doctors are performing surgery on healthy, non-consenting minors? Let alone giving parents any kind of choice?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">This OB/GYN is nothing more than a charlatan, and this is nothing more than a paid ad.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Washington Daily News is colluding with a charlatan in perpetuating blatant misinformation. Rather than merely publish a self-serving business plug, the Washington Daily News ought to engage in journalism and publish the truth about this matter.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="s1"></span></i></p><blockquote><i><span class="s1">“It’s difficult to get a [wo]man to understand something when her salary depends on [her] not understanding it.”</span></i></blockquote><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Publishing circumcision information from a woman who makes her living performing them is probably not the best idea for neutral, objective, unbiased, dispassionate reporting.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Do better, Washington Daily News.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><b>Related Posts:</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2012/12/the-circumcision-blame-game.html">The Circumcision Blame Game</a></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; 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margin: 0px;"><a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2012/08/aap-around-bush-and-closer-to-nowhere.html">AAP: Around the Bush and Closer to Nowhere</a></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>External Links:</b></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://m.thewashingtondailynews.com/2021/06/28/health-beat-what-to-know-about-circumcision/?fbclid=IwAR3NOrJXD4siWQA43SJrJlLelCzAq-9nvpO4Pko4-7v4jnVJW8K9sted-JA">Washington Daily News - Health Beat: What to know about circumcision</a></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://nationalpost.com/health/ontario-newborn-bleeds-to-death-after-family-doctor-persuades-parents-to-get-him-circumcised">National Post: Ontario newborn bleeds to death after family doctor persuades parents to get him circumcised </a></p><p><a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/national/atlanta-lawyer-wins-million-lawsuit-for-family-botched-circumcision/P9Jewrh4v1GWStqGyfejiP/">Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision</a></p><a href="http://thecircumcisionlawyer.com">David J Llewellyn: The Circumcision Lawyer</a>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-39903376833002332732021-06-30T06:37:00.001-07:002021-06-30T06:37:37.704-07:00Mohel Uses Pride Month to Shamelessly Plug on Facebook<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH6j4Or-OKqOfudaAHaVpgwi9MIxbSUp4aQfSM2kv7sqITAGxSFr8Zh-U2yaTAkGvbUp8_4PgEPVJ90dDWaB40U7qayuWAa8qn0SEzovp5pL1gIFeevnTH-t-DodZuC258JWwsrNyZDd0/s1125/0A79FE92-40DC-45AF-88EE-3BA45B49444E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1119" data-original-width="1125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH6j4Or-OKqOfudaAHaVpgwi9MIxbSUp4aQfSM2kv7sqITAGxSFr8Zh-U2yaTAkGvbUp8_4PgEPVJ90dDWaB40U7qayuWAa8qn0SEzovp5pL1gIFeevnTH-t-DodZuC258JWwsrNyZDd0/s320/0A79FE92-40DC-45AF-88EE-3BA45B49444E.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">I get it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Intactivists face an uphill battle.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">You’re not going to convince a Jewish mohel to stop mutilating baby boys anymore than you’re going to convince a Malaysian imam to stop mutilating baby girls.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Yes, traditions die hard, and really, short of stomping our feet, there is nothing we can do to stop an intrepid adherent of a violent religion intent on carrying out his faith.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">It’s not illegal, at least yet, and as long as they can get away with it, cutters gonna cut.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">And hey. Mohels gotta eat too.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">I get it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">I should point out that up until 2018, there was a federal ban on female genital mutilation (<a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2018/11/detroit-federal-ban-on-fgm-declared.html">was</a>), and for a while, yes, you could face federal charges for mutilating a girl, without religious exemption. This is the way it is in many Western countries.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Thanks to the naturalization of male genital mutilation in this country though, mohels get a pass. It is my speculation that this shield of protection from criticism and scrutiny is a big reason why Jewish “researchers” help put out “studies” saying circumcision “prevents disease,” why Jewish doctors in American medical organizations protect it by codifying it in medical policy, and Jewish lawmakers block any measure condemning the practice.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">But here is something I don’t get.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Scrolling down my Facebook feed, I see that some mohel actually took the opportunity of Pride Month to push his business.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU9b1Sk7M6VMYPE7_jFnyHM4xT62UG7l7mBbYed_1k3EpCeR8VneH5DBAF-lj1gL5yeaCdxGZCX42u6cxsfZK8bQg4-ZlUF9Q63qjHGnfhnDItddpIkY_6luXZc7gdrwqUJLV6MYW7HCo/s2048/765F703E-F09D-489D-A09D-236AECE90A77.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1123" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU9b1Sk7M6VMYPE7_jFnyHM4xT62UG7l7mBbYed_1k3EpCeR8VneH5DBAF-lj1gL5yeaCdxGZCX42u6cxsfZK8bQg4-ZlUF9Q63qjHGnfhnDItddpIkY_6luXZc7gdrwqUJLV6MYW7HCo/w219-h400/765F703E-F09D-489D-A09D-236AECE90A77.jpeg" width="219" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size: small;">I’m not Jewish, never could be, thank my lucky stars I wasn’t born to Jewish parents. But, is it just me, or is this not just a little bit hypocritical?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">On the one hand, we have this mohel, and he wouldn’t be the first, plugging his business of infant genital mutilation, preaching to the Jewish gay community that they ought to have their children mutilated to fulfill religious obligation. Genesis and all that.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5jkO5X6zGo42GpWOSh_f8kIhB4Ujy2XwLbzrgQr7QVmL-HPT3OE1Rumr4JqDKZ8y_ikBGtDf_s8FLOSQ5-jtNFqH-wQAnZDElqYbQtYO1sT63Ree6504ebAMrXQ1LmMMRun3oLyLGRpg/s1652/5A3BD669-C81B-42C9-BEB4-DB50CD259DCE.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1652" data-original-width="1125" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5jkO5X6zGo42GpWOSh_f8kIhB4Ujy2XwLbzrgQr7QVmL-HPT3OE1Rumr4JqDKZ8y_ikBGtDf_s8FLOSQ5-jtNFqH-wQAnZDElqYbQtYO1sT63Ree6504ebAMrXQ1LmMMRun3oLyLGRpg/s320/5A3BD669-C81B-42C9-BEB4-DB50CD259DCE.jpeg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size: small;">But on the other hand, if I recall correctly, Jewish gays are already in trouble with Adonai, as they are an abomination who should be “put to death.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIAsLqEC-XW56rFbqGNuFSd67sF-FMGZ8PoQjGA1ZJbEU9LdGszyaiTMFvXEZ2OW6nHhhqXpo7gnBXyte62oB7jAfbhAVAZjqnuHnojGB6uwV0kBkEMQn0BQD1vcSwio3fO6f1x9z7hiE/s1125/4E95DD17-9841-46C9-8B1B-EA4EB02168F3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="1125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIAsLqEC-XW56rFbqGNuFSd67sF-FMGZ8PoQjGA1ZJbEU9LdGszyaiTMFvXEZ2OW6nHhhqXpo7gnBXyte62oB7jAfbhAVAZjqnuHnojGB6uwV0kBkEMQn0BQD1vcSwio3fO6f1x9z7hiE/s320/4E95DD17-9841-46C9-8B1B-EA4EB02168F3.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCHAnwPkjCAxwA4PVqTh8bpRyaXFIjlWTj0yOnfCDpKc-NF0RcHQnHrrTQDLYjck11mdP8AjVbJZkerYGXJGo1jg68dTMvXoGxlvmiVr-zjBxObKf4u04We6x6o74tgrVIYLrfzEuJfww/s1125/9B8B5D05-6F69-4146-AD59-CB249A466871.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="1125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCHAnwPkjCAxwA4PVqTh8bpRyaXFIjlWTj0yOnfCDpKc-NF0RcHQnHrrTQDLYjck11mdP8AjVbJZkerYGXJGo1jg68dTMvXoGxlvmiVr-zjBxObKf4u04We6x6o74tgrVIYLrfzEuJfww/s320/9B8B5D05-6F69-4146-AD59-CB249A466871.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size: small;">Like, am I missing something?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Adonai wants you dead, but you still need to fulfill your religious obligation to have any male children you adopt, mutilated.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">The same guy who is morally obligated to kill you wants you to pay him to mutilate your baby boy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">How does that make any sense?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">How are these two things reconciled?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">We’ve all heard it before.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">The rationale goes something like this:</span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“Well, it’s the 20th century, and obviously there are things in the Torah we just don’t do this day and age. We no longer sell our daughters into slavery nor do we sacrifice bulls at the altar.”</i></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: small;">And this is exactly right.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">There are things we just don’t do this day and age.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">So then the bigger question is, why even circumcise children as a religious obligation in the first place?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Things change.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">And thankfully so.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Some Jewish families are opting for a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit_shalom_(naming_ceremony)">bris shalom</a> instead of a mutilation ritual that may or may not result in the child losing his penis, getting infected with herpes or bleeding to death. (Google these things. Herpes is exclusively a risk of ultra orthodox Jewish circumcision.)<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">This is 2021.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Why is this still happening?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">It’s hypocritical cringe to see this mohel shamelessly trying to capitalize on Pride Month to shamelessly plug his business of infant genital mutilation.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Like how do you announce your business of the <i>“sacred and ancient tradition”</i> to Jewish gays, the very people the sacred and ancient Torah says god hates and should be put to death? On Pride Month?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Am I the only one who sees the audacity of a mohel reminding Jewish gays they have an obligation to uphold?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“The Torah says you’re an abomination to Adonai and that you should be put to death. But bring me your male babies so that I may mutilate them as the sacred and ancient Torah says.”</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">It just doesn’t compute.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Don’t get me wrong.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">I think it’s abhorrent that there are actually people dedicated to the business of child ritual mutilation in and of itself.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Plugging to the very people your holy book says you’re obliged to kill is on a whole ‘nother level.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">The wording is so audacious!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="s1"></span></i></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="s1">“Every Jew who requires a bris whether for themselves or their children, regardless of gender identity or orientation deserves equal access to the sacred and ancient tradition.”</span></i></span></blockquote><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;">All the progressive buzz words are included here.<br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;">How do you <i>“require” </i>a bris for someone other than yourself? <br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;">He’s just not going to mention that little fact that, HELLO, if you’re gay, Adonai thinks you’re an abomination that should be put to death?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;">What if you or your child identify as female? Would he then not be committing female genital mutilation?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH9TeE10YnUTn7BwRpNIWqadbth6_qW38qjJJ6X3I5vYLRw_NoRIUDqF6svjQBaGOXyRv7punSh526gKYh84zyuBPyKvOMvhRmizY_BE5cnxDxexggD_UditAaeUdb67ZSBxnCBkEAXF0/s1500/your+daughter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH9TeE10YnUTn7BwRpNIWqadbth6_qW38qjJJ6X3I5vYLRw_NoRIUDqF6svjQBaGOXyRv7punSh526gKYh84zyuBPyKvOMvhRmizY_BE5cnxDxexggD_UditAaeUdb67ZSBxnCBkEAXF0/w400-h134/your+daughter.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;">What does the Torah have to say about trans folk with top and bottom surgery?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;">Here. I can help.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyd4AkH_yavSaMzPHpuP2FC3TpIFUGuu8jDbfTWrWrh0zQ0lqIC_8CVJycOy9DUTyrLrDfV_mTdAXBQNOHPf5CpaULuDg_W6IkiLtFSPt_YkH91dk6CMu7fTpD5t0Egzsxibg-8i0sEb0/s1125/CFF19B92-06E8-4F5C-A3F6-B847E3A1FD67.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="1125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyd4AkH_yavSaMzPHpuP2FC3TpIFUGuu8jDbfTWrWrh0zQ0lqIC_8CVJycOy9DUTyrLrDfV_mTdAXBQNOHPf5CpaULuDg_W6IkiLtFSPt_YkH91dk6CMu7fTpD5t0Egzsxibg-8i0sEb0/s320/CFF19B92-06E8-4F5C-A3F6-B847E3A1FD67.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /></span><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;">Love the nod to<i> “equity.”</i></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="s1">“Equal access to the sacred and ancient tradition.”</span></i></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;">What would we say about an imam or African shaman offering <i>“equal access”</i> to female genital mutilation?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;">And what do Jewish LGBT folk who take their children to this guy to have them mutilated hope to achieve?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;">Some sort of redemption?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;">Having your male children mutilated hoping Adonai will forgive you for being gay or trans just adds a whole ‘nother level of cringe.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;">This whole thing stinks any way you look at it.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;">In the end it’s just another entrepreneur capitalizing on Pride Month to push his business of infant genital mutilation.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;">The way he’s trying to frame this “sacred and ancient tradition” as “progressive” and “equitable” to push it on Jewish gays, but more importantly, at the expense of baby boys is absolutely despicable.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;">Jewish LGBT folk, the Torah already says Adonai hates you and you should be put to death.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;">If you’re going to dismiss passages that call for the end of your existence as just “a relic of times past,” you might as well opt for a bris shalom.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;">I’m sure you condemn parents trying to give conversion therapy to their children. Why would you force a covenant your child can’t even comprehend on them? If you respect their autonomy, their identity, their bodies and their choice to do what they want in life, you won’t do this.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;">What an absolutely shameless plug by a guy whose business is infant genital mutilation. <br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Related Posts:</b></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2018/11/detroit-federal-ban-on-fgm-declared.html" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">DETROIT: Federal Ban on FGM Declared Unconstitutional</a></span></span></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/10/pro-circumcision-jewish-lgbts-height-of.html">Pro-Circumcision Jewish LGBTs - The Height of Hypocrisy?</a></span></span></span></h3><div><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></u></span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2021/05/jews-circumcising-adopted-children.html">Jews Circumcising Adopted Children</a></span></u></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times;"><u style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2021/04/daniel-barnz-mocks-french-and-intact.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><u><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Daniel Barnz Mocks the French and Intact Men on HBO Max's "Generation"</span></u></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></span><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/02/intactivism-its-not-just-for-gentiles.html">Intactivism: It's Not Just for Gentiles Anymore</a></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><u style="text-decoration: none;">External Link:</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit_shalom_(naming_ceremony)">Wikipedia entry on Brit Shalom</a><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></u></div>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-36250521069506946652021-06-13T16:50:00.007-07:002021-06-14T05:48:14.982-07:00TikTok Mother Claps Back at “Mom-Shaming” With American Idiocy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAue51kTvKAo2GRshELcapdmX-6_yWLVpFMdjyZiTftQAsHY2CSfQkRhetoicGJEFJNgxJ9tqdzblhMEQeygccYIwwr6n6SH4z3YqfS8vlHww7c6AHaTSbu_OjuYCBbzSLjPXRmZ7zj4I/s1125/324960FA-1AD1-4E76-AAA0-C0034A47F002.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="1125" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAue51kTvKAo2GRshELcapdmX-6_yWLVpFMdjyZiTftQAsHY2CSfQkRhetoicGJEFJNgxJ9tqdzblhMEQeygccYIwwr6n6SH4z3YqfS8vlHww7c6AHaTSbu_OjuYCBbzSLjPXRmZ7zj4I/w400-h326/324960FA-1AD1-4E76-AAA0-C0034A47F002.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>To quote a certain mother on TikTok,<i> “So I was going to leave this alone, but, I’m not.”</i><div><br /></div><div>You know, I used to be one of those intactivists who would hop on each and every time some mother posted about their son’s genital mutilation online. Back when I used to be an angrier intactivist, I would wait on Twitter, wait in Facebook intactivist groups for others to post links to mothers talking about their son’s circumcision. I would go and lay into them, pulling out all the stops, making sure I did every thing I could to make sure it stung.</div><div><br /></div><div>But then, I realized my time could be used more productively.</div><div><br /></div><div>Once a child has been mutilated, there’s nothing we can do about it, and chances are a parent’s mind is already made up and their ears are deaf to anything we tell them. So why bother?</div><div><br /></div><div>There is merit to posting on these threads though; while the mother may be trying to justify herself and may be hardening herself to any information we post, there are other moms reading this, and somebody’s got to be setting the record straight.</div><div><br /></div><div>So while I no longer go<i> “circumcision mom hunting,”</i> if I see BS, I will call it out when and if I can. Sometimes I go on there, and there are already others commenting, which is great. And sometimes, what can I say, I’m a busy family man and I can’t get sucked in to every circumcision shit-storm some attention-seeking mom whips up on social media.</div><div><br /></div><div>Still, if I see straight up verifiable idiocy, I can’t help but dig in.</div><div><br /></div><div>I’m going to be polite about it, I’m going to refrain from making personal attacks, but I’m still going to call BS out whenever I see it.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Mother on TikTok Doubles Down on Idiotic Alibis</b></div><div>So like, I was scrolling down my Facebook newsfeed, and I saw this video that someone decided to take from TikTok and upload to YouTube.</div><div> </div><div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/j2f2_o-TfFQ" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> </div><div><br /></div><div>I thought <i>“TikTok? Not TikTok…”</i> I had never had a TikTok account, mind you, I swore I’d stay away from that place if it’s the last thing I did.</div><div><br /></div><div>But there I go, like the weak idiot that I am, and I click on the link. I watched the whole thing and I was like “No. This shit just can't fly.”<br /><br />Her TikTok handle is right there for everyone to see. (I'm not going to post it on here... if anyone wants to go comment, I'm'a let you do the work.)<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>So there I go, downloading the app for this shit, making my Joseph4GI profile just so that I can comment. Thoughts going through my mind are…<i> "what if I get <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2017/12/circumcision-censorship-at-twitter.html">banned like on Twitter</a> because my posts are reported as 'harassment' or what not?"</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Whatever, I thought, I’ll just post and leave.</div><div> </div><div> Like, I’m not going to call her names for doing this, I’m going to give
this mother the benefit of the doubt; I’m a father too, and I completely
understand that we all just want the best for our children. But she is
repeating verifiable bullshit and I just have to call it out.</div><div><br /></div><div>I went in the comments section for this video, and while there were some voices of reason there, there were also other moms repeating the same old BS to justify themselves.</div><div><br /></div><div>I went to town making my comment, which on TikTok has to be made in a series because of the character limit.</div><div><br /></div><div>TikTok is a funny place, because even after a user has blocked you (I can tell she blocked me because I could no longer see the video…), TikTok still notifies you when others reply to your comment on the video that supposedly <i>“doesn’t exist.”</i></div><div><br /></div><div>I decided I’d log out of TikTok and never log in ever again, because it just seems like another black hole I can get sucked into, but other intactivist users I know tell me that, as is usually the case with mothers flaunting their son’s circumcision on social media, the mother is intent on calling whenever someone tries to present her with information <i>“mom-shaming,”</i> and she’s blocking users and deleting comments that don’t agree with her.</div><div><br /></div><div>Well, I may not be able to post to the TikTok video anymore, but nothing will prevent me from calling this woman out here.</div><div><br /></div><div>Again, keeping it respectful.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Point by Point Response</b></div><div>What I’m going to do is post the transcript to her short video here, addressing what she says point by point.</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Let’s begin with her opening lines:</div><div><br /></div><div><blockquote><i>“So I was going to leave this alone, but, I’m not.”</i></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>She should have left well enough alone. I could have left this alone too, but, as with her, I’m not.</div><div><br /></div><div><i><blockquote>“We’re not gonna mom-shame on here. OK?”</blockquote></i></div><div><br /></div><div>This is an interesting opener; it’s almost as if she was expecting backlash. But I ask, what does she consider <i>“mom-shaming?”</i> On the one hand, calling her names would be wrong. That’s no argument and no one deserves that. But is<i> “mom-shaming” </i>hurling insults? Or merely posting information that does not validate her position? There is a difference.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>As parents, we can only make informed decisions, and make better future decisions from hearing newer, better information. Sometimes we make mistakes, and it’s only human. But good parents should want to hear new information so as to not make the same mistake in the future. The presentation of newer, better information so that we could make better decisions in the future should not be construed as <i>“mom-shaming.”</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Yet it seems to be <i>“mom-shaming”</i> any time a mom makes the decision to circumcise, and others present information that debunk her reasons for allowing it to happen.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>“We’re not gonna mom-shame here”</i> seems to be code for <i>“Don’t post anything that makes me have to second-guess my decision, because it makes me feel ashamed.”</i></div><div><br /></div><div>No one ever wants to learn we made the wrong decision, especially something as irrevocable as cutting off part of our children's’ genitals, but how are parents supposed to make better decisions if this information is forbidden from being presented?</div><div><br /></div><div><i><blockquote> “If you wanna get your son circumcised, that’s fine. If you don’t, that’s fine.”</blockquote></i></div><div><br /></div><div>Invariably, mothers that are trying to justify their own position of having had their sons circumcised want to frame it as<i> “just another parental decision.” </i>Diapers or cloth, processed baby food or food made in-house, circumcision or intact organs, tattoos and piercings or clear unpierced skin. <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2016/06/las-vegas-parents-in-hot-water-after.html">Zelda ears</a> or not. You know? The usual.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgknotONfKQKTVNMgQr8mBMXip-P4-iNkDo_FvjgxN5QSZL1QKf09aB_Fk_B_Oa3JM3azM9yyXZdS41MOPZfob0YKxBp-beun97lQFFyzP5jqdl3Aj1u1QrQuQJVAFR1CK4gOlWamE0LFs/s331/69E38918-E642-43E9-881F-4ED8A207A7F4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="331" data-original-width="236" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgknotONfKQKTVNMgQr8mBMXip-P4-iNkDo_FvjgxN5QSZL1QKf09aB_Fk_B_Oa3JM3azM9yyXZdS41MOPZfob0YKxBp-beun97lQFFyzP5jqdl3Aj1u1QrQuQJVAFR1CK4gOlWamE0LFs/w285-h400/69E38918-E642-43E9-881F-4ED8A207A7F4.jpeg" width="285" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Though it’s true that parents must make many decisions for their children, not every decision parents make in regards to their children is justified merely because<i> “parents must decide everything for their children.” </i> A parent may decide to give cigarettes and booze to their children. And why not, <i>“my child, my choice,”</i> right?</div><div><br /></div><div>But talk of <i>“the big parental decision”</i> is a red-herring.</div><div><br /></div><div>Reaping profit from performing elective, non-medical surgery on healthy, non-consenting individuals already constitutes medical fraud. Without medical or clinical indication, how is it doctors are performing surgery on healthy, non-consenting minors, let alone giving parents any kind of “choice?”</div><div><br /></div><div>This mother is under the delusion that she’s entitled to a <i>“choice,”</i> as are many others. It benefits doctors who perform male infant circumcision.</div><div> </div><div>The question must be asked, what other elective, cosmetic, non-medical <i>"options"</i> can doctors offer parents for their healthy, non-consenting child? <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Now begin the alibis:</div><div><br /></div><div><i><blockquote>“My issue is, I got my son circumcised because I don’t want him to have any issues in the future because I’m not that ‘what if mom.’ I don’t want that “We’ll we’re gonna let this happen and then see how it goes. NO. We’re gonna go ahead and take care of the situation, while we can.”</blockquote></i></div><div><br />So much to unpack here.</div><div><br /></div><div>First off, what<i> “situation?”</i></div><div><br /></div><div>A disease indicating a cure is a situation. An injury or deformity requiring surgical correction is a situation. Anatomically correct organs every child is born with are not a<i> “situation” </i>that needs<i> “taking care of.”</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Her<i> “issue” </i>is hypothetical non-issues.</div><div><br /></div><div>In essence, the <i>“issue” </i>is imagined.</div><div><br /></div><div>It’s interesting she wants to frame herself as not being a <i>“what if” </i>mom. There are so many <i>“what ifs” </i>that she chose to ignore when she put her son through this.</div><div><br /></div><div>What if her son got <a href="http://archive.boston.com/news/health/articles/2009/04/11/state_details_safety_lapses_at_beth_israel/?page=2">an infection</a>?</div><div><br /></div><div>What if her son got <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/05/circumcision-botches-and-elephant-in.html">a botched circumcision that may have needed correction later on</a>?</div><div><br /></div><div>What if her son <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2015/04/mogen-circumcision-clamp-manufacturers.html">lost part or all of his penis</a>?</div><div><br /></div><div>What if her son started <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/newborn-bleeds-death-after-doctor-persuades-parents-have-him-circumcised-canada-a6710061.html">hemorrhaging</a>?</div><div><br /></div><div>What if her son went into <a href="https://med.stanford.edu/newborns/professional-education/circumcision/complications.html">septic shock</a>?</div><div><br /></div><div>What if her son was left with <a href="https://www.latimes.com/health/la-xpm-2011-sep-26-la-he-circumcision-20110926-story.html">a penis that was mutilated beyond what is deemed <i>“acceptable?”</i></a></div><div><br /></div><div>What if her son grows up to have <a href="https://youtu.be/rXDoezKLZjc">painful erections</a>?</div><div><br /></div><div>What if her son <a href="https://www.mendocomplain.com/">grows up to resent</a> that his penis was cut to assuage the concern for<i> “issues”</i> that may not even manifest in the future?</div><div><br /></div><div>Did she stop to think about that?</div><div><br /></div><div>No. This whole video is mostly about justifying what she did and not feeling <i>“ashamed”</i> for having made a permanent decision on her son’s body. That’s what’s kinda frustrating about this video; she wants to make it about <i>“him.”</i> The poor child doesn’t have a say in what happens to his body. This is all about getting validation on social media.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i><blockquote>“And he did perfectly fine. Dr. said he didn’t cry or anything like that.”</blockquote></i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The doctor would tell her that. Why does she believe him at face value? Has she not seen videos of the procedure on YouTube? Children don’t just <i>“not cry”</i> during the procedure. And even when they don’t, who is she trying to fool? There are videos on YouTube of mothers changing their children’s diapers for the first time and the uncontrollable crying that ensues after the local numbing wears off. She’s either dense or she hopes her viewers are.</div><div><br /></div><div><i><blockquote>“But do you really trust your teenage boy to wash down there and, get all in where he needs to get to make sure it’s clean? NO. I’m sorry, I’m not gonna trust my son to do that…”</blockquote></i></div><div><br /></div><div>This is probably the most telling part of the video.</div><div><br /></div><div>It’s almost as if she has forgotten the hygiene issues she has to worry about as a woman every month. A teenage girl needs to learn to wear pads or insert tampons, how to dispose of them properly, not to mention clean up after herself and her surroundings. But she <i>“can’t trust a teenage boy to wash down there.” </i>Right.<br /><i></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>Perhaps we should assume good faith; after all, she doesn’t have a penis, let alone an intact one.</div><div><br /></div><div><i><blockquote>“…and on top of that, when he’s like 80 or 90 years old, I don’t trust the nursing home, the nurses or himself to take care of himself, cuz I have known people that work in nursing homes, and they don’t wash themselves properly down there and get multiple infections.”</blockquote></i></div><div><br /></div><div>This last part is rather convoluted bunkum.</div><div><br /></div><div>Men AND women struggle to clean themselves in old age, especially if they become senile and unable to care for themselves. If you can’t trust the nursing home and the nurses working there to do their job and look after the elderly interned there, who can you trust? If a nurse is incompetent and won’t clean an intact man, shouldn’t she be fired for not doing her job?<br /><br />No. Grandpa should be circumcised and geriatric caretakers shouldn't be expected to learn natural male anatomy.</div><div><br /></div><div>Like nurses must clean up feces, urine, and vomit, and they must clean out grandma's vagina, but don't make them come near grandpa's intact penis. Oh, no!<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>She says she has known people that work in nursing homes and <i>“they don’t wash themselves properly down there and get multiple infections.”</i> She probably means to say that according to the people she knows, the *men* don’t wash properly and get multiple infections.</div><div> </div><div>In all honesty, I think she's just making this up as she goes along. Every mother who wants to justify herself for doing this knows *someone* who has had, or whose child has had <i>“problems,”</i> or <i>"someone"</i> who <i>"works in a nursing home"</i> with horror stories. Like 80% of men in the US are circumcised. Where on earth are all the intact boys and men coming from?</div><div><br /></div><div>Another reality; only boys and men with problems go to hospitals. You won't hear of all the intact boys and men who aren't <i>"suffering"</i> because they don't go to the doctor. Doctors and nurses will tell you about other problems they see in patients. Appendectomies and gall bladder removals day in and day out. Every patient that goes to the doctor goes there for some sort of "problem." But no one says <i>"You should have his or her appendix out because I see tons of patients at the hospital who need it." </i>Or <i>"It's better to remove his or her gall bladder right now. So many patients come in to get those removed."</i></div><div><i> </i></div><div>All of these <i>"I know someone who blah blah blah"</i> stories are nothing but ad-hoc/post-hoc special pleading non-sense.</div><div><i> </i><br /></div><div>For those of you who don't understand logical fallacies by name, ad-hoc/post-hoc means <i>"justification after the fact." "Special pleading"</i> means when you want to make a special case for yourself.<br /></div><div> </div><div>But let's just give this mother the benefit of the doubt; this raises the question of why weren’t the nursing home workers doing their job properly to begin with.</div><div><br /></div><div>She doesn’t mention anything of what happens when women get infections and have hygiene problems.</div><div><br /></div><div>It is common for older women to get hysterectomies, as having a uterus and ovaries is a risk for f<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: #3c4043;"><span style="font-family: times;">ibroids (noncancerous growths inside the uterus), endometriosis (a painful disorder in which tissue similar to normal uterine lining grows outside the uterus), and cancer of the uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, or cervix. Does it make sense to perform a hysterectomy on a newborn to prevent problems for her near the end of her life?</span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: #3c4043;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: #3c4043;"><span style="font-family: times;">No. It doesn’t.</span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: #3c4043;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #3c4043; font-family: times;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67);">The foreskin has function. It protects the glans in the uterus and in early childhood years. It has the most erogenous part of the penis. It keeps the glans moist and supple; without the foreskin, the glans becomes dried out and desensitized under layers of keratin. The foreskin provides a buffer zone during masturbation and helps stimulate a woman during intercourse. The expanding foreskin accommodates the shaft; removal of the foreskin can result in painful erections if too much skin is removed.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #3c4043; font-family: times;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #3c4043; font-family: times;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67);">How does it make sense to destroy these functions and possibly ruin a man’s sex life so that caretakers <i>“don’t have to clean it in his 90s?”</i></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>It’s nonsense.</div><div><br /></div><div>Of course, we’ve heard the whole <i>“when he’s 90”</i> canard before.</div><div><br /></div><div>Can she be forgiven for not actually having researched the prevalence of circumcision globally, and how intact men fare in geriatric care in the UK, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, France, pretty much the rest of Europe, not to mention Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and pretty much the rest of South America?</div><div><br /></div><div>Maybe she can be forgiven for failing to notice the absence of an epidemic of <i>“issues”</i> in the rest of the world where most men, upward from 70%, aren’t circumcised?</div><div> </div><div>Maybe.</div><div> </div><div>She is American after all, and information in America seems to gear American parents toward circumcision.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>And that’s the other thing that bothers me about this whole thing. All over her thread she repeats over and over <i>“I’ve done my research, I’ve done my research,”</i> when clearly she hasn’t.</div><div><br /></div><div>If she did, she would know that not a single medical organization in the world recommends male infant circumcision, not even the American Academy of Pediatrics. She would know that in 2012 the AAP reviewed all existing medical literature on the topic and concluded that <i>“the benefits are not great enough to recommend male infant circumcision,”</i> and that <i>“the true incidence of complications after male infant circumcision is unknown.” </i>You can’t<i> “do your research” </i>and arrive at a more reasonable conclusion than the most respected medical organizations on the planet.</div><div><br /></div><div>But you know, she can't even be blamed for this; it shouldn't be a parent's job to be on the up-and-up regarding global medical consensus. That <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2012/12/the-circumcision-blame-game.html?m=1">should be the job of the doctor.</a> What on earth are they paid millions for? So they can flout being held professionally responsible?</div><div><br /></div><div>Parents trust doctors in their white lab coats to be the most informed resource regarding healthcare, and it's a shame that American doctors are abusing this trust to reap profit on an elective, non-medical procedure.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCDzq4cqlLeSsa0ZGHezf36TsU7nLkvGm0iHcg3L02N-mKU9DuW4q85MkTBkChxmbUnGD1WvvjoHkW-tZGCizrEyKRpLtVGX9P7LfKJnFAsMwEa33-_O7Dcp72E3XR1JGUv8ZakyigLSM/s380/AAP+All+About+Profit.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="367" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCDzq4cqlLeSsa0ZGHezf36TsU7nLkvGm0iHcg3L02N-mKU9DuW4q85MkTBkChxmbUnGD1WvvjoHkW-tZGCizrEyKRpLtVGX9P7LfKJnFAsMwEa33-_O7Dcp72E3XR1JGUv8ZakyigLSM/s320/AAP+All+About+Profit.png" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>She can be forgiven for not knowing what goes on outside of America, she can be forgiven for not doing her own research and trusting her doctor, but can she be forgiven for doubling down on her ignorance and calling it <i>"mom-shaming"</i> every time people try to educate her?<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I don’t mean to shame anybody, but willful ignorance is not a virtue.</div><div> </div><div>Making mistakes doesn't make you a bad parent; refusing to acknowledging them does. As parents we should always be ready to admit we've made a mistake, and make better decisions based on newer, up-to-date information.</div><div> </div><div>You can't post a spicy video on social media about something as controversial as male infant circumcision and then claim to be a victim of <i>"mom-shaming"</i> when others react and you don't get the validation you were hoping for.</div><div><br /></div><div>She ends with this:</div><div><br /></div><div><blockquote><i>“So, we’re not gonna mom-shame on here. Stop thinking it’s mutilation, it’s NOT.”</i></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>What she means to say, of course, is she does not want to be made to feel ashamed for having gone through with an irreversible decision. She wants others to stop thinking it’s mutilation because it makes HER feel ashamed.</div><div><br /></div><div>I hate to say it, but how others feel or think has no bearing; facts are objectively true by virtue that they can be observed and verified.</div><div><br /></div><div>Without medical or clinical indication, “mutilation” is precisely what slicing off a normal, healthy part of a healthy, non-consenting minor is.</div><div><br /></div><div>She needs to stop calling naming facts <i>“mom-shaming.”</i> That the facts are what they are do not blame those pointing them out.</div><div><br /></div><div>And, to coin a phrase, she needs to stop thinking circumcision isn't mutilation; it is.<br /></div><div> </div><div><b>Private Parental Decisions Aren't Private on Social Media</b></div><div>Finally, I want to close with this, because it seems some parents don't seem to understand the way the internet works:<br /></div><div> </div><div>If you don't want others <i>"shaming you" </i>for your poor parental decisions, if you don't want others <i>“getting</i> <i>in your business,"</i> posting said <i>"business"</i> on social media, where others are likely to comment, is prrrrrobably not a good idea.</div><div> </div><div>C'mon. This should have been a lesson learned from the MySpace era. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSsolomDVsGgzRfHB-FUBW2Dki-sOu_CBFg-Tb91Y4fF-lKRk-ZXrj8oVyUlqMGZTKrs8QClgPEkprj4byAc0qhS_CgmDIqp4kT8KXaHJWj2vEAEWXuJ8vGf-50_GtYYYuVQ3-LHLbrGg/s680/so+why.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="680" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSsolomDVsGgzRfHB-FUBW2Dki-sOu_CBFg-Tb91Y4fF-lKRk-ZXrj8oVyUlqMGZTKrs8QClgPEkprj4byAc0qhS_CgmDIqp4kT8KXaHJWj2vEAEWXuJ8vGf-50_GtYYYuVQ3-LHLbrGg/w400-h258/so+why.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>This isn't meant to be a "mom-shame."</div><div><b> <br /></b></div><div>It's meant to be educational.<b><br /></b></div><div><b> </b></div><div>It may be too late for this mother's child, but it's never to late for other children.</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>This post is full of links to legit news articles and resources for parents who are actually looking into this issue.</div><div><br /></div><div>I hope this mother finds this post and learns something, and if she still refuses to learn, I hope other parents find this post and that <i>they</i> learn.</div><div> </div><div>If at least one parent becomes informed and spares their child needless risk and mutilation, I will be glad to have written this post. If she finds this, I genuinely wish you and your child the health and happiness.<b><br /></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;"></b><blockquote><b style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;">Mission Statement</b><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;">The foreskin is not a birth defect. Neither is it a congenital deformity or genetic anomaly akin to a 6th finger or a cleft. Neither is it a medical condition like a ruptured appendix or diseased gall bladder. Neither is it a dead part of the body, like the umbilical cord, hair, or fingernails.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;">The foreskin is not "extra skin." The foreskin is normal, natural, healthy, functioning tissue, present in all males at birth; it is as intrinsic to male genitalia as labia are to female genitalia.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;">Unless there is a medical or clinical indication, the circumcision of a healthy, non-consenting individuals is a deliberate wound; it is the destruction of normal, healthy tissue, the permanent disfigurement of normal, healthy organs, and by very definition, infant genital mutilation, and a violation of the most basic of human rights.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;">Without medical or clinical indication, doctors have absolutely no business performing surgery in healthy, non-consenting individuals, much less be eliciting any kind of "decision" from parents.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;">In any other case, reaping profit from non-medical procedures on non-consenting individuals constitutes medical fraud.</span></blockquote><p></p><blockquote>The risks of male infant circumcision include infection, partial or full ablation, hemorrhage and even death. (See links above and below.) Since male infant circumcision is elective, cosmetic procedure on healthy, non-consenting individuals, any risk above “zero” is unconscionable.<b> </b></blockquote><b></b><p></p></div><div><b>Related Posts:</b></div><div><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2017/12/circumcision-censorship-at-twitter.html">Circumcision Censorship at Twitter? </a></div><div> </div><div><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2016/06/las-vegas-parents-in-hot-water-after.html">LAS VEGAS: Parents in Hot Water After Giving Baby Zelda Ears Mod </a></div><div> </div><div><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/05/circumcision-botches-and-elephant-in.html">Circumcision Botches and the Elephant in the Room</a></div><div> </div><div><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2012/12/the-circumcision-blame-game.html">The Circumcision Blame Game </a></div><div> </div><div><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2012/08/aap-around-bush-and-closer-to-nowhere.html">AAP: Around the Bush and Closer to Nowhere </a></div><div> </div><div><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2012/03/if-you-cant-stand-heat-stay-off-net.html">If You Can't Stand The Heat, STAY OFF THE NET </a></div><div> </div><div><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/04/circumcision-kills.html">Circumcision KILLS </a></div><div> </div><div><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2015/04/mogen-circumcision-clamp-manufacturers.html">Mogen Clamp Manufacturers Face Civil Law Suit </a><br /></div><div> </div><div><b>External Links:</b></div><div><a href="https://www.mendocomplain.com/">Men Do Complain </a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/newborn-bleeds-death-after-doctor-persuades-parents-have-him-circumcised-canada-a6710061.html">Newborn bleeds to death after doctor persuades parents to have him circumcised in Canada</a></div><div> </div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/rXDoezKLZjc">YouTube: BBC - Why my penis is in constant pain </a></div><div> </div><div><a href="https://med.stanford.edu/newborns/professional-education/circumcision/complications.html">Standford Medicine - Complications of Circumcision </a></div><div> </div><div><a href="https://www.latimes.com/health/la-xpm-2011-sep-26-la-he-circumcision-20110926-story.html">Los Angeles Times - Injuries linked to circumcision clamps </a><br /></div>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-23339467022027709312021-05-23T16:19:00.001-07:002021-05-23T16:35:43.984-07:00“Doctor at your Door” Facebook User Feels Intactivist Heat<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMlLkcbkTDiVe7VGcrEa_r3TYSR4lflsg4bsAiCIS3uJ9_xC_DW_UARr6zw0IwDWImjW_wwdaV-O2M3BVT7kaM8rdpWTJR-b1yq-RqQ_Rzd4ekfC691B8_apLeEKPxUMqdtb83sm4TQt4/s2048/18983600-1839-4656-8312-21D78ED7B29F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMlLkcbkTDiVe7VGcrEa_r3TYSR4lflsg4bsAiCIS3uJ9_xC_DW_UARr6zw0IwDWImjW_wwdaV-O2M3BVT7kaM8rdpWTJR-b1yq-RqQ_Rzd4ekfC691B8_apLeEKPxUMqdtb83sm4TQt4/w400-h266/18983600-1839-4656-8312-21D78ED7B29F.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Also known as Carole Keim, MD, the Facebook user who runs the page "Doctor at Your Door" recently faced backlash from intactivists for a video she posted about the supposed "pros and cons" of male infant genital mutilation. (Also known as "male infant circumcision.") The video can be found <a href="https://fb.watch/5FujfrFWNh/">here</a> (on Facebook), but I've taken a snapshot and posted it below in case she takes it down.<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbxmlEjapZpoZFmdiP_Tu6d5E32touAHB-AHR30ptJ_U-s-TQe5GUWkejcO22NZU9WRKmJsvgWGdQoiL9vszinFIvYRVyNtodPzhLuJVaqWuk2jzylRuROxLNofqa4o8aO23L8QjZioWE/s1940/F7006366-D097-4967-81F0-29D5EC860F0E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1940" data-original-width="1125" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbxmlEjapZpoZFmdiP_Tu6d5E32touAHB-AHR30ptJ_U-s-TQe5GUWkejcO22NZU9WRKmJsvgWGdQoiL9vszinFIvYRVyNtodPzhLuJVaqWuk2jzylRuROxLNofqa4o8aO23L8QjZioWE/s320/F7006366-D097-4967-81F0-29D5EC860F0E.jpeg" /></a></div><p></p><p>She spouts the usual "pro-and-con" BS, framing it as a "parental choice," as most male infant circumcision advocates do.</p><p>Once intactivists made the scene, however, she started blocking users and deleting comments, leaving up only those who were favorable to her, including comments that appear to be from circumfetishsts spouting pro-circ non-sense.</p><p>Her videos are now locked for comments (at least to me, anyway), she has allowed only pro-circ comments to remain.</p><p>She also decided to post this little gem:<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggMPMRZCZ-nGjDix6HAAfGEinQRjbLtQiOJmlmPQpQtaIe_A8okpVXeYcna4h-FbI2kMZuxL48-cintNQNBkKC1ap6kI3LzfUZRs-UTKZx_Uvfnqrd0QqbT2O7Mf_hQc4wFRs9-rqGEr8/s1125/C1861DB7-5597-45AF-B8FE-5E2823A7684A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="875" data-original-width="1125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggMPMRZCZ-nGjDix6HAAfGEinQRjbLtQiOJmlmPQpQtaIe_A8okpVXeYcna4h-FbI2kMZuxL48-cintNQNBkKC1ap6kI3LzfUZRs-UTKZx_Uvfnqrd0QqbT2O7Mf_hQc4wFRs9-rqGEr8/s320/C1861DB7-5597-45AF-B8FE-5E2823A7684A.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p> </p><p>It's interesting she describes her "stacnce" on circumcision as "neutral," given her credentials on <a href="https://fb.watch/5FujfrFWNh/">Linked-In</a>.<br /><br /></p><p><b>"Neutral?" Or inherently biased?</b><br />Her latest "Experience" entries reveals just how "neutral" she actually is:</p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0qaV1t5LsyXaOjSPxm6z5DebIxlhisYYMhUIrB6c4S5JLkx4rDTS0A_2x9HelwbKpCDQbuEM61_hWKJyX0_4gGN4BGxGhIu8X94_jWkfgNWOcSGgvGg7zR1ddFaJoWes8sl_rTsixG_o/s723/Keim+experience.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="708" data-original-width="723" height="391" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0qaV1t5LsyXaOjSPxm6z5DebIxlhisYYMhUIrB6c4S5JLkx4rDTS0A_2x9HelwbKpCDQbuEM61_hWKJyX0_4gGN4BGxGhIu8X94_jWkfgNWOcSGgvGg7zR1ddFaJoWes8sl_rTsixG_o/w400-h391/Keim+experience.png" width="400" /></a></div><b></b> <p></p><p>You can't have a "neutral" stance on male infant circumcision when it's one of the main things you do for a living.</p><p> </p><p>A quote by Upton Sinclair comes to mind:</p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><i></i></span></span></p><blockquote><b><i>"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."</i></b> ~Upton Sinclair</blockquote><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCDzq4cqlLeSsa0ZGHezf36TsU7nLkvGm0iHcg3L02N-mKU9DuW4q85MkTBkChxmbUnGD1WvvjoHkW-tZGCizrEyKRpLtVGX9P7LfKJnFAsMwEa33-_O7Dcp72E3XR1JGUv8ZakyigLSM/s380/AAP+All+About+Profit.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="367" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCDzq4cqlLeSsa0ZGHezf36TsU7nLkvGm0iHcg3L02N-mKU9DuW4q85MkTBkChxmbUnGD1WvvjoHkW-tZGCizrEyKRpLtVGX9P7LfKJnFAsMwEa33-_O7Dcp72E3XR1JGUv8ZakyigLSM/s320/AAP+All+About+Profit.png" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><b>Religious Bias?</b><br />There is yet one more thing that makes me question Dr. Keim's "neutrality"; a quick google reveals that Keim is an Ashkenazic (Jewish) surname.<p></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"> </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieHTrpvzVk7D8qM5YWg6PdUHbKxLRaI9QwdKyvACgv61S0FpZeSFkqPa0I8zkqdCSn-8XDYO12sir5FXqkLXJV71ESAiy_mVH1eF_FZTUkEI61EIRLKZ8m04wElbhia0IjKT1cUm44edU/s670/Keim+ancestry.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="670" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieHTrpvzVk7D8qM5YWg6PdUHbKxLRaI9QwdKyvACgv61S0FpZeSFkqPa0I8zkqdCSn-8XDYO12sir5FXqkLXJV71ESAiy_mVH1eF_FZTUkEI61EIRLKZ8m04wElbhia0IjKT1cUm44edU/w400-h205/Keim+ancestry.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span class="hgKElc">Also, if one looks carefully at her Linked-In page, there seems to be mismatch between her current surname and what is listed as her page address. Check it out:</span><p></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"> </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAsSWojT5RNf5fdiVVTKI9eMejqj1b55H5lxbE-yNpg_OkL4Gg41Ow2-KBMJgifrhmP_hf8QmReQAdoFcZhdm6EihT-LHSu4FtuyQIIsEIww4P3ARG4IlBbDaD72lztrICVVVCK-e-g90/s703/keim+gedenberg.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="703" height="103" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAsSWojT5RNf5fdiVVTKI9eMejqj1b55H5lxbE-yNpg_OkL4Gg41Ow2-KBMJgifrhmP_hf8QmReQAdoFcZhdm6EihT-LHSu4FtuyQIIsEIww4P3ARG4IlBbDaD72lztrICVVVCK-e-g90/w400-h103/keim+gedenberg.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span class="hgKElc">"Dr. Carole Gedenberg" appears instead.</span><p></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">Looking up "Gedenberg" does not really yield much in terms of Jewish connections, save for obituaries here and there, although anything ending in "-berg" sounds suspiciously Jewish to me.<br /></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">Why is this important?</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">Promoting male infant circumcision for its "health benefits" while also belonging to an ethnoreligious group whose very identity is founded upon the forced genital cutting of children is a glaringly obvious conflict of interest.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">As with the financial conflict of interest, you can't have a "neutral" stance on circumcision if you've got a religious conviction to protect what is seen as a "divine commandment." It would be difficult if not impossible for her, to say anything that would result its demise. </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">For example, in her "neutral" video, she doesn't talk about the risk of infection, partial or full ablation, hemorrhage or death. She doesn't talk about how circumcision would negatively affect the child as a man, desensitization due to keratin build-up in the glans, reliance on artificial lubricant for masturbation and sex because circumcision dries out the penis and makes masturbation and intercourse difficult.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">She can't.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">Either because she needs parents to say "yes" to the mutilation she offers, or because she can't put what she might see as a sacred command in jeopardy. <br /></span></span></p><p><b>Parental Choice is the Pretext<br /> </b>I've <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2012/12/the-circumcision-blame-game.html">already written about this</a>, but relying on "parental choice" as a defense is an escape hatch that relieves doctors of professional responsibility.</p><p>It is inescapable that parents make decisions for their children up until they are eighteen; no one is challenging this fact.</p><p>However, parents make decisions when and if there is a decision to be made.</p><p>Doctors must first diagnose a problem and determine that conventional methods of treatment have been exhausted before finally recommending surgery.</p><p>Parents can't merely “choose” for their child be put on chemotherapy if the doctor hasn't diagnosed cancer in the child yet.</p><p>Parents can't merely “choose” for the doctor remove organs like the gall-bladder or the appendix; a doctor must make a diagnosis and determine that a child needs surgery.</p><p>Only then can parents be asked to make a “decision.”</p><p>Male infant circumcision is the only time a parent can ask the doctor to
remove a normal, healthy part of a child's body without medical or
clinical indication, and the doctor can comply.</p><p>It's the only time a doctor can treat non-medical surgery on a healthy, non-consenting person as a "choice" they can present to parents.<br /></p><p>In fact, in any other case, reaping
profit from performing surgery on healthy, non-consenting individuals
constitutes medical fraud.</p><p><b>Medical Fraud</b><br />Without medical or clinical indication, a doctor has no business performing surgery on healthy, non-consenting minors, let alone giving parents any kind of "choice."</p><p>This doctor's career depends on our government's courts and legal system looking the other way at this very fact.</p><p>Perhaps Dr. Keim knows at some level that she is offering parents a false “choice?” Why else would she get defensive and start blocking people calling her out?</p><p>It's understandable that she would want to block intactivists; she must protect her business model of violating the basic human rights of children and then putting that blame on their parents.</p><p>She is, after all, a businesswoman; she must secure clientele and protect herself from lawsuits.</p><p>She and all doctors must know that they are profiting at the expense of the rights of healthy, non-consenting individuals under the pretext of "parental choice."</p><p><b>What doctors SHOULD be saying:<br /></b>If Dr. Keim were an honest person, she would tell parents the truth; there is no medical need to perform surgery on healthy children's genitals.</p><p>She would tell parents that no respected medical organization in the world recommends male infant circumcision, not even the American Academy of Pediatrics in their 2012 statement.</p><p><span style="font-family: times;">She would tell parents that t<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: #3c4043;">he true incidence of complications after newborn circumcision is unknown (AAP 2012), and thus a true risk/benefit assessment is not possible.</span></span></p><p>She would tell parents that 70% of males are intact globally, and that there simply isn't an epidemic of UTIs and "problems" in those countries where men are mostly intact.</p><p>She would tell parents that despite 80% of American males being circumcised from birth, <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2014/08/united-states-infant-circumcision-fails.html">we still have some of the world's highest rates of STDs</a>, <a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2013/02/where-circumcision-doesnt-prevent-hiv-ii.html">including HIV</a>.</p><p>She would tell parents that even when circumcised, adult males must wear condoms for actual protection from any STD transmission.<br /></p><p>She would tell parents that the risks of male infant circumcision include infection, partial or full ablation, hemorrhage and even death.</p><p>She would tell parents that the vast majority of circumcised males often need the aid of artificial lubrication for masturbation and sexual intercourse because the head of the penis dries out over time.</p><p>She would tell parents that <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17378847/">circumcised men often experience desensitization</a> as a result of the naked glans penis building up keratin over time.</p><p>She would tell parents that painful sex for women is associated with a circumcised partner.</p><p>She would talk about all the adverse outcomes of circumcision, which include <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/05/circumcision-botches-and-elephant-in.html?m=1">botched circumcisions which may need revision surgery</a> later on.</p><p>She would tell parents about the possibility that their child might <a href="http://www.mendocomplain.com/">resent being circumcised as an adult</a>.</p><p>She would tell parents about the possibility of circumcision causing painful sex and/or erections in adult men. (See BBC stories at the bottom of this post.)<br /></p><p>She would treat male infant circumcision as she would any other surgical procedure; as a very last resort only after other methods of treatment have failed.</p><p>No doctor would discuss the "pros and cons" of "early appendectomy" or "early gall-bladder removal," "infant labiaplasty," and then "let parents make a choice."</p><p>Male infant circumcision is the only procedure doctors can get away with "letting parents decide" to have them perform on healthy, non-consenting infants without any kind of diagnosis.</p><p>If Dr. Keim were an honest, ethical person, she would tell parents she refuses to perform elective cosmetic surgery on healthy, non-consenting minors.</p><p>But then she'd probably lose business, and at the end of the day, that's any American physician's bottom line.</p><p>Isn't it.</p><p>Such dishonesty.</p><p>I wouldn't want her at my door.<br /></p><p>I close with my mission statement:</p><p><b>Mission Statement</b><br />
The foreskin is not a birth defect. Neither is it a congenital
deformity or genetic anomaly akin to a 6th finger or a cleft. Neither is
it a medical condition like a ruptured appendix or diseased gall
bladder. Neither is it a dead part of the body, like the umbilical
cord, hair, or fingernails.<br />
<br />
The foreskin is not "extra skin." The foreskin is normal, natural,
healthy, functioning tissue, present in all males at birth; it is as
intrinsic to male genitalia as labia are to female genitalia.<br />
<br />
Unless there is a medical or clinical indication, the circumcision of a
healthy, non-consenting individuals is a deliberate wound; it is the
destruction of normal, healthy tissue, the permanent disfigurement
of normal, healthy organs, and by very definition, infant genital
mutilation, and a violation of the most basic of human rights.<br />
<br />
Without medical or clinical indication, doctors have absolutely no
business performing surgery in healthy, non-consenting individuals, much
less be eliciting any kind of "decision" from parents.<br />
<br />
In any other case, reaping profit from non-medical procedures on non-consenting individuals constitutes medical fraud.<br />
<br />
Genital integrity, autonomy and self-determination are inalienable
human rights. I am against the forced circumcision of healthy,
non-consenting minors because it violates these rights.<br />
<br />
</p><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>Genital mutilation, whether it be wrapped in culture, religion or “research” is still genital mutilation.</b><br />
<br />
<b>It is mistaken, the belief that the right amount of “science” can be
used to legitimize the deliberate violation of basic human rights.</b></blockquote><p><br />You're in the business of male infant genital mutilation and the violation of basic human rights, Dr. Keim.<br /><br />The time is coming where the men your circumcised as children
will hold you responsible, and the pretext of "parental choice" will
not save you.<br /></p><p>UPDATE:</p><p>Apparently she posted this elsewhere as well:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiNgjqSYIN0qDbtxKs4H0Iz736rbkmfQMvrBR2_42j5MztMJUZJ7GZoGs1CERxUbHsAIQd-zvnsuE7BG3z9r4Hcpma4N8_0gyupDT9FtMAD-ocCoigs3lWt51GVFI4UGz5ddw9Z7ed5WI/s960/80FF9D18-CABA-4C22-9606-5A7C15A791AF.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiNgjqSYIN0qDbtxKs4H0Iz736rbkmfQMvrBR2_42j5MztMJUZJ7GZoGs1CERxUbHsAIQd-zvnsuE7BG3z9r4Hcpma4N8_0gyupDT9FtMAD-ocCoigs3lWt51GVFI4UGz5ddw9Z7ed5WI/s320/80FF9D18-CABA-4C22-9606-5A7C15A791AF.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p>No, doctors have the right to practice *medicine.* Their duty is to their patient, not his parents. Without medical indication, there is no treatment to prescribe, let alone any “choice” to make. Barring medical indication, that decision belongs to the owner of the penis.</p><p>When has a newborn child died because he had anatomically correct genitals? I’d like to see that medical paper.</p><p>I think it’s interesting how facts that are devastating to her business are “hate speech” now.</p><p>Pseudoscience and pseudomedicine spouted to convince parents to allow doctors to mutilate their children is hate speech.</p><p>Lo, it is scientific profanity not to mention medical fraud.</p><p><b>Related Posts:</b><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2012/12/the-circumcision-blame-game.html"><br />The Circumcision Blame Game<br /></a></p><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/02/intactivism-its-not-just-for-gentiles.html">Intactivism: It's Not Just for Gentiles Anymore</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2021/04/daniel-barnz-mocks-french-and-intact.html">Daniel Barnz Mocks the French and Intact Men on HBO Max's "Generation" </a><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/06/anti-semite-card-no-longer-washes.html">The "Anti-Semite" Card No Longer Washes</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/01/edgar-schoen-showing-his-age.html">Edgar Schoen Showing His Age</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2014/08/united-states-infant-circumcision-fails.html">UNITED STATES: Infant Circumcision Fails as STI Prophylaxis</a></div></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><br /><a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2013/02/where-circumcision-doesnt-prevent-hiv-ii.html">Where Circumcision Doesn't Prevent HIV II</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2016/09/phimosis-lost-knowledge-missing-in.html">PHIMOSIS: Lost Knowledge Missing In American Medicine</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/02/politically-correct-research-when.html">Politically Correct Research: When Science, Morals and Political Agendas Collide</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/05/circumcision-botches-and-elephant-in.html?m=1">Circumcision Botches and the Elephant in the Room</a></div></div><p><b>External Links:<br /></b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/doctoratyourdoor">"Doctor At Your Door LCC" Facebook Page</a><b><br /></b><a href="https://www.doctoratyourdoor.co/"><br />"Doctor At Your Door" Homepage</a><b><br /><br /></b><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/drcarolegedenberg/">Carole Keim, MD's Linked In Page</a><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.mendocomplain.com/"> Men Do Complain Webpage</a></p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-47292307">BBC News: My Son Killed Himself After Circumcision</a></p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-49085138">BBC News: Circumcision - My Penis Causes Me Constant Pain </a><br /></p><p><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17378847/">Fine-touch pressure thresholds in the adult human penis - study</a></p><p></p>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-37126369433964785372021-05-22T19:20:00.003-07:002021-05-23T01:11:41.657-07:00Jews Circumcising Adopted Children<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwX_bxxd5IHUMvlhfST1eDsqVgY6_vJMq6awYQGW17WyKESjrRQrVtaN-f_XX_QZYr7iDECJmCzMFpRdKF8aZGDJTd6BsLIh09ahIechhNuvCr8RdsbypbnG-AhdSIUu8RHx7AtegOhro/s1600/Jewish+adoption.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwX_bxxd5IHUMvlhfST1eDsqVgY6_vJMq6awYQGW17WyKESjrRQrVtaN-f_XX_QZYr7iDECJmCzMFpRdKF8aZGDJTd6BsLIh09ahIechhNuvCr8RdsbypbnG-AhdSIUu8RHx7AtegOhro/w400-h225/Jewish+adoption.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>I had seen this phenomenon before, but I hadn't really given it much thought. Several years ago, my attention was brought to a blog of a Jewish woman outlining her adoption and circumcision of boys from Russia, and the thought of having been adopted by Jewish parents horrified me. Like, I can't recall the blog anymore, but if I remember correctly, these weren't even baby boys, these were older boys not older than 10.</p><p>How horrific to be yearning for parents, only to be adopted by strangers who immediately proceed to make arrangements to have someone forcibly cut off part of your most private, most intimate organs. I don't know what I'd do had I been one of those Russian boys.</p><p>At any rate, I ran across this on Facebook: <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqLMYnojDNY-XYfKSTtE8JYbjoZp-28fUBCwQqxu0EhJVrMIr61k1WoDBUxCvYeLD3hcKcvw2hqbM13p3BcylXxOyHQjL2JNnlzg2f08zHh6vqsdeG9NdxL95raGxyzZIzAmbVjpaj2Ro/s1924/BD953955-763F-4E20-8E0C-E467C555702B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1924" data-original-width="1125" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqLMYnojDNY-XYfKSTtE8JYbjoZp-28fUBCwQqxu0EhJVrMIr61k1WoDBUxCvYeLD3hcKcvw2hqbM13p3BcylXxOyHQjL2JNnlzg2f08zHh6vqsdeG9NdxL95raGxyzZIzAmbVjpaj2Ro/w234-h400/BD953955-763F-4E20-8E0C-E467C555702B.jpeg" width="234" /></a></div><p></p><p>I don't know what to think when Jewish people actually flaunt having adopted male children and having them circumcised.</p><p>Like, it's horrifying enough that cutting off a part of a child's penis seems to be like, the defining cornerstone of Judaism. Now they have to mutilate the organs of a child who's not even Jewish?</p><p>Look.</p><p>I'm trying real hard not to be an anti-Semite here, but this is seriously getting to a point.</p><p>I grew up in a very conservative, pro-Israel, pro-Jewish church.</p><p>In becoming an intactivist, going against what is supposed to be the very tenet of Judaism, the "covenant" on which the entirety of Judaism is based, I knew I was going to become something I was taught in my church to hate and despise.</p><p>These are feelings I fight with every time I think about being horrified by doctors and mohels taking knives and cutting off part of children's penises.</p><p>But the more I read about this, the more I'm leaning to the "I don't like Jews" side.</p><p>I keep telling myself; some of our more outspoken voices are Jewish people.</p><p>I've written <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/02/intactivism-its-not-just-for-gentiles.html">a post</a> about this.</p><p>I know that not all Jewish people are proponents of male infant genital mutilation.</p><p>I know that Jewish people not mutilating their baby boys are increasing.</p><p>I know that Jewish people speak out with us.</p><p>I want to believe that not all Jews support this, and that some have even created the Bris Shalom ritual to replace the mutilation ritual.</p><p>But just, the more I look into <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2021/04/daniel-barnz-mocks-french-and-intact.html">how pro-circumcision Jews and Judaism influence this country</a>, the more I read about how <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/01/edgar-schoen-showing-his-age.html">Jewish doctors are using pseudomedicine and pseudoscience to promote male infant genital mutilation</a>, the more I see how <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/06/jewish-lgbt-leaders-against-sf-circ-ban.html">Jewish proponents of male infant genital mutilation stand in the way of removing this blight from American medicine</a>, the more I'm filled with hopelessness and rage.</p><p>There is at least <a href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/converting-infants-and-children/">one website</a> that I've come across in the making of this post that outlines that male children that Jewish families adopt must be ritually mutilated.</p><p>It's just casually written there, and nobody is saying anything about it.</p><p>Like an elephant in the room.</p><p>Like, I admit it, this is probably going to sound real "anti-Semitic," but Jews, Muslims, ANYBODY who plans on ritually mutilating a male child should not be allowed to adopt.</p><p>And anyone who does this to an adopted child should lose custody of that child and they should never be allowed to adopt again.</p><p>And this isn't just Jews, because I've also read about American families taking an adopted male child and having him circumcised just after.</p><p>Genital mutilation is wrong.</p><p>It's wrong and it ought to be a crime to forcibly cut the genitals of children.</p><p>If it's wrong to forcibly mutilate the genitals of newborns, forcibly mutilating the genitals of children that AREN'T EVEN YOUR OWN should be RIGHT OUT.</p><p>I realize this is a hairy situation where we look the other way at ritual mutilators such as mohels.</p><p>Fine.</p><p>If we must look the other way at Jews mutilating their own, at least for now, then fine.</p><p>But like WHAT THE FUCK IS A MOHEL DOING MUTILATING A NON-JEWISH CHILD.</p><p>WHY ARE DOCTORS MUTILATING BOYS at the request of people that AREN'T EVEN THEIR PARENTS???</p><p>OK, I get it.</p><p>At least for now, mutilating a child is considered a "parental choice." It's considered a "religious rite" that must be "protected."</p><p>OK, for your OWN CHILDREN. (Even then I think it's wrong.)</p><p>But these are children who aren't even YOUR OWN.</p><p>These children are yearning to be taken in and loved.</p><p>NOT TAKEN IN AND HAVE THEIR GENITALS MUTILATED.</p><p>It ought to be a crime for strangers to arrange, facilitate, officiate, and/or otherwise participate in the genital mutilation of a foster child.</p><p>This is just wrong on so many levels.</p><p>We're not talking about medical necessity here. If a child needs surgery to correct a problem, that's one thing.</p><p>But mutilating the genitals of a healthy child as a matter of course for adoption is simply horrific human rights violation.</p><p>Forcibly mutilating a healthy child is a horrific human rights violation in and of itself. Full stop.</p><p>Letting a stranger mutilate the genitals of their own child is one thing, but arranging this to be done on a child that's not even your own flesh and blood is simply horrific abuse.</p><p>Yeah, I guess I'm an "anti-Semite" now.</p><p>I'll fucking own it.</p><p>It's bad enough Jews are mutilating their own children, now they have to mutilate the genitals of children that aren't even their own.</p><p>I'll say it; Jews who plan on mutilating the children they adopt should not be allowed to.</p><p>Those who mutilate foster children ought to face severe punishment.</p><p>Without medical or clinical indication, cutting off any part of a child's penis is genital mutilation and a gross violation of his basic human rights.</p><p>Could you imagine Muslim parents arranging the genital mutilation of baby girls they adopt?</p><p>And don't you come to me with this "female genital mutilation is not a Muslim practice." Yes it fucking is, you just don't want this to be true because you don't want to be put in the same category.</p><p>"<a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/05/so-wheres-sunat-party.html">Sunat</a>" is a practice followed by Muslims in South-East Asian countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Singapore. Muslims in Egypt and Sudan also have similar practices. It's also a tradition in many African countries.</p><p>For better or for worse, female genital mutilation is part of many religions including Islam, and many cultures including cultures from countries I've mentioned above.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQUz523fvVLuONPzPBlZA-Kj7_8A4lntWOwgRSKZBghmVbS793w64REAPI_YKzeFAHhRQd07Uz-OtaexFxLdCqjBp1fBX8oRczKKFSbkB4A04OmDsSJkaNb5j2NvkiA9atL-450zo5zek/s824/part+of+our+culture.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="824" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQUz523fvVLuONPzPBlZA-Kj7_8A4lntWOwgRSKZBghmVbS793w64REAPI_YKzeFAHhRQd07Uz-OtaexFxLdCqjBp1fBX8oRczKKFSbkB4A04OmDsSJkaNb5j2NvkiA9atL-450zo5zek/s320/part+of+our+culture.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>I'm not sure how many of you reading are aware, but do you know that the <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2018/11/detroit-federal-ban-on-fgm-declared.html">federal ban on female genital mutilation has been lifted</a>? All the arguments used in favor of male infant genital mutilation you could name were used. What was practiced was "minimal." "Less severe" than male infant genital mutilation even. It's an important part of the parent's culture and religion.</p><p>This is reality in the US.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhprFI8lH3dF_l9yodpcmwygB-WkJ18Vt7p4PQtquQiSeN9KOWjv_rgpAHstQyRRTHyETGdlvAJK5J6bux7xsMn3MNlFUakFrkANkRCjtfjMUr1DIk3LTk46GmTWUBHfhHuUdhie2Cx0Ko/s588/FGM+ban+unconstitutional.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="269" data-original-width="588" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhprFI8lH3dF_l9yodpcmwygB-WkJ18Vt7p4PQtquQiSeN9KOWjv_rgpAHstQyRRTHyETGdlvAJK5J6bux7xsMn3MNlFUakFrkANkRCjtfjMUr1DIk3LTk46GmTWUBHfhHuUdhie2Cx0Ko/w400-h183/FGM+ban+unconstitutional.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>What do we think of parents adopting female children and taking them to have their genitals mutilated by a ritual mutilator straight away?</p><p>If we accept this for boys, then we must accept this for girls.</p><p>And this is horrifying.</p><p>This is what's next.</p><p>We need to stop looking the other way because this is what's coming.</p><p>We need to decide right here and now.</p><p>What matters more?</p><p>The basic human rights of the child?</p><p>Or the "religious freedom" of parents wishing to practice their religion on the children they adopt?</p><p>What about the child's religious freedom?</p><p>The website "My Jewish Learning" says:</p><p> </p><p></p><blockquote><i>"Jewish law also allows those people converted as an infant or child to
renounce the conversion when they reach maturity. After girls reach 12
or boys 13, converted infants and children can legally reject the
conversion and go back to their previous religion. If they accept
Judaism or are silent, they are deemed to be considered adult converts."</i></blockquote><p></p><p><br /><br />THEY CAN'T REJECT THE GENITAL MUTILATION.</p><p>THIS IS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM WITH "CONVERTING CHILDREN."</p><p>Genital mutilation isn't "for the children." This isn't something the children choose for themselves. The "conversion" is to satisfy an ADULT'S religious requirement.</p><p>The poor children are merely tools for adults to fulfill their religious duties.</p><p>Which only adds to the whole fucked-uppedness of the situation.</p><p>This is wrong in more ways than one.</p><p>It is horrifying for me to think about, to imagine poor children who need and want parents to be adopted by parents who want to physically abuse them the first chance they get.</p><p>I don't care what prepared dismissive moniker you have for me, this is WRONG and it needs to STOP.</p><p><b>EDIT:</b></p><p>Somebody I know read what I wrote and decided to remind me of this:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeqrd2y87C7ojZBd_QvAiQs7aEQLxpjAcm4rcaxygIMgNGtmR017hgmOMI0IUCGhOo6bsf8PeCc_DIyOuqT2z2YSC0Fcbaq72QwdKzH_KQvSfq_D9QrYjIkpc1uyx6Q_IkuGJhQhyphenhyphenrNVg/s695/genesis+17-12.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="695" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeqrd2y87C7ojZBd_QvAiQs7aEQLxpjAcm4rcaxygIMgNGtmR017hgmOMI0IUCGhOo6bsf8PeCc_DIyOuqT2z2YSC0Fcbaq72QwdKzH_KQvSfq_D9QrYjIkpc1uyx6Q_IkuGJhQhyphenhyphenrNVg/w400-h144/genesis+17-12.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>There it is in plain sight, and it's just so hard for me to believe.</p><p>I wish this weren't so.<br /><b> </b><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5rOsHxFFL8p445uNtAyrY-2oJjxWcCWnhFUTxK6x41iJaSUtV28ZdsHzkhXBjL9IZkmdDQklcoVor2qDRAtyO0psF4E7Nsep8zVcSnpw7pWkPbPOQBaJQi2bcGGCgATfCbYKf5HZrbiQ/s1316/disillusioned+Tevye.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="687" data-original-width="1316" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5rOsHxFFL8p445uNtAyrY-2oJjxWcCWnhFUTxK6x41iJaSUtV28ZdsHzkhXBjL9IZkmdDQklcoVor2qDRAtyO0psF4E7Nsep8zVcSnpw7pWkPbPOQBaJQi2bcGGCgATfCbYKf5HZrbiQ/w400-h209/disillusioned+Tevye.webp" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><b></b></p><blockquote><b>DISCLAIMER: </b><br />
I speak out against the forced circumcision of healthy, non-consenting
minors in any way, shape or form. I make no exception for "religion" nor
"cultural practice" of any kind. Please do not conflate my disdain for
the forced circumcision of minors with a belittlement of circumcised
men, or a hate for Jews.<br />
<br />
The views I express in this blog are my own
individual opinion, and they do not necessarily reflect the views of all
intactivists. I am but an individual with one opinion, and I do not
pretend to speak for the intactivist movement as a whole, thank you.<br />
<br />
~Joseph4GI</blockquote><p> </p><p><b>Related Posts:</b><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/02/intactivism-its-not-just-for-gentiles.html"><br />Intactivism: It's Not Just for Gentiles Anymore</a></p><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/06/jewish-lgbt-leaders-against-sf-circ-ban.html">Jewish LGBT Leaders Against SF Circ Ban - Ignorance or Hypocrisy?</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2021/04/daniel-barnz-mocks-french-and-intact.html">Daniel Barnz Mocks the French and Intact Men on HBO Max's "Generation" </a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/06/anti-semite-card-no-longer-washes.html">The "Anti-Semite" Card No Longer Washes</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/01/edgar-schoen-showing-his-age.html">Edgar Schoen Showing His Age</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/06/circumcision-is-child-abuse-picture.html">Circumcision is Child Abuse: A Picture Essay</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/05/so-wheres-sunat-party.html">So Where's the "Sunat Party?"</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span class="d-inline-block mr-1"> </span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span class="d-inline-block mr-1"><b>External Links: </b><br /></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2018/11/431411/female-circumcision-part-malaysian-culture-says-dpm"><span class="d-inline-block mr-1">Female circumcision part of Malaysian culture, says DPM</span></a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span class="d-inline-block mr-1"> </span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span class="d-inline-block mr-1"><a href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/converting-infants-and-children/">My Jewish Learning: Converting Infants and Children </a><br /></span></div><p></p>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-45800999252892918702021-05-03T21:50:00.003-07:002021-05-04T08:58:27.230-07:00Equal Rights for Boys, Girls and Intersexed Children<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh23K70GZjvVrizQy5CcSoLQcFZhVTwxZAEJ9DolHI_BDnfxz2ZAFfWHFYYNdNh7Xn0l7Rq1yGDw4oADy4GH3WkdnQSuXxrWUMx9f1jMCR2j1jffJEVh1IXqE6ILONus5-YES5gunlbOFM/s630/intersexed+equal+rights.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="630" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh23K70GZjvVrizQy5CcSoLQcFZhVTwxZAEJ9DolHI_BDnfxz2ZAFfWHFYYNdNh7Xn0l7Rq1yGDw4oADy4GH3WkdnQSuXxrWUMx9f1jMCR2j1jffJEVh1IXqE6ILONus5-YES5gunlbOFM/w400-h400/intersexed+equal+rights.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>My blog is primarily about male infant genital mutilation, and voices opposing the forced genital cutting of girls and women aren't in short supply.</p><p>Nobody talks about intersexed individuals, though.</p><p>What is an "intersexed individual?" <br /></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" dir="auto" lang="en_XX">A
very small minority of children are born with what are called
<i>"ambiguous genitalia."</i> Their genitals don't take on a definite <i>"male"</i> or
<i>"female"</i> look to them (the penis may be too small, the clitoris may be too large, the person's genitals might have both a visible shaft as well as a vaginal opening etc.), and doctors act as if they are entitled to a
science experiment. They pressure parents to choose a sex for their
child, and the child is forced to undergo a number of surgeries so that their genitals align with the sex chosen for them. If the person grows up to not like the sex chosen for him/her, or maybe even just resent having had unwanted surgery,
well, that's just too bad.</span></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" dir="auto" lang="en_XX">There is a growing number of intersexed
children who grow up wishing people just left their genitals alone. A
number of them reject their elected sex. I believe it is a basic human right for intersexed
people to decide what gender they best align with, and to choose whether or not they want sexual
assignment surgery, along the same lines as male infant circumcision.<br /></span></p><p>Actually, perhaps even before male infant circumcision, I've always thought that sexual assignment surgery for intersexed babies and children was wrong. This was probably my gateway into thinking forcibly cutting baby boys was wrong.</p><p>Before male infant genital mutilation entered my consciousness, I remember having seen a talk-show with intersexed individuals were talking about having resented having had a doctor surgically alter their genitals and simply be told what sex they were going be. Since then I have always thought that forcibly cutting a child's genitals is wrong.</p><p>One day, I saw a video that really pissed me off. I don't remember exactly where I saw it, either on the Discovery channel, or on a news report; a boy had grown up with ambiguous genitalia. He had an ovary and a testicle, along with ambiguous genitalia, and doctors sought to make the boy a girl. They kept pressuring his parents that the child ought to be raised as a girl, but the parents refused. One day, one of the child's doctors said that the child needed to undergo surgery for whatever reason. I forget what that reason was, but it had nothing to do with the child's genitals. The parents agreed to let the child undergo surgery, but when the child had come out, they were notified that the child's testicle had been removed because it "had become cancerous." This was clearly a farce because no previous records of cancer existed. It was very clear, at least to me, that these parents were tricked into having their child undergo unwanted surgery. Doctors basically had their way with this poor child. The child was clearly a boy and liked to do the things boys did; play on bikes, play sports, liked rough-and-tumble play, and doctors removed one of his only sources for testosterone.</p><p>I not only oppose the forced genital cutting of boys and girls, I oppose the forced genital cutting of intersexed individuals.</p><p>A doctor is not entitled to a science experiment every time an intersexed individual is born.</p><p>As with cutting a boy's penis, as with cutting a girl's vulva, consent is at the crux of the argument.</p><p>Barring medical indication, a doctor has no business cutting the genitals of an intersexed individual.</p><p>Whether or not they want surgery to "fix" their genitals should be that person's choice.<br /></p><p><br /></p>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-59042674200218321732021-04-24T16:24:00.004-07:002021-04-25T02:25:04.931-07:00USA: Doctors Can Get Away With Circumcising a Child by Mistake<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTzuRORHbLZR-C616WLmyguylm8PSPINcDj5PtRZmS6Zmn5CSxbtZ9yIEpSC__DQlY4Z3Lp0_PUVHqtuCZdhyphenhyphenDf8m8sdfF1NhVS75oBOdMa_afV5_udS2aSUBbsgt9W5MaXn2T6uvnfJ8/s1416/gavel+and+steth.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1416" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTzuRORHbLZR-C616WLmyguylm8PSPINcDj5PtRZmS6Zmn5CSxbtZ9yIEpSC__DQlY4Z3Lp0_PUVHqtuCZdhyphenhyphenDf8m8sdfF1NhVS75oBOdMa_afV5_udS2aSUBbsgt9W5MaXn2T6uvnfJ8/w400-h191/gavel+and+steth.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>I was lucky I found some time to write yet another post for this blog this month! Hopefully I'll keep finding time to write about this ongoing issue in my home country.</p><p>I was scrolling through Facebook this morning, and I ran into this:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC2JvNm6f9H1YqKgIY3cuAnRcGQ7BKwS8cHJOUHk8PGdeFO8vyXVykhP92XSxeP4sCyyb6qEU43XAZsQBj6NMPnWa8cwCCSDhEI27hyxiUfW7FDWjBR4wvLKizAoiW3HlNIjtgjoJwjqY/s911/wrongful+circumcision+4-25.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="911" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC2JvNm6f9H1YqKgIY3cuAnRcGQ7BKwS8cHJOUHk8PGdeFO8vyXVykhP92XSxeP4sCyyb6qEU43XAZsQBj6NMPnWa8cwCCSDhEI27hyxiUfW7FDWjBR4wvLKizAoiW3HlNIjtgjoJwjqY/w400-h233/wrongful+circumcision+4-25.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />This got me thinking about the possibility of parents suing doctors who went ahead and circumcised children without permission from parents.<p></p><p>The problem with suing doctors in the United States is that male infant circumcision is not seen as "harm" by the people there. 80% of men in the United States are circumcised from birth (this is separate from the rate of male infant circumcision, which has fallen to 56.4% as per the CDC), so most men are likely to be circumcised, and most women are likely to be married to circumcised men and/or mothers to circumcised male children. For this reason, and this reason alone, it is more than likely that sitting judges may let doctors who circumcise children "by mistake" off the hook. <br /></p><p></p><p>In <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/10/muncie-circumcision-case-highway.html">Muncie, Indiana</a>, a doctor circumcised a child "by mistake." The sad part of this case is that the child's family traditionally does not circumcise.</p><p>One of the witnesses downplayed the unwanted procedure because <i>"a penis could not be used to read books published in Braille for the sight-impared."</i></p><p>If that's the case, a clitoris can't be used for the same purpose either.</p><p>In this case, the jury decided to let the doctor off the hook without paying any damages.<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFk3-CiIsDYU1OojtZRM4-w0zMB4Iy2Ihg6fTErtQCnK_OcSMQaNLJxyF5ZOlOsj7yAPpa1vW2Gq5C9NORpDEy_YN4J-wgk_DapNpFZJPFgl4raZqo2CsAuouKHovnkiBA1NG8Zg_WsY0/s3166/get_out_of_jail_free.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1879" data-original-width="3166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFk3-CiIsDYU1OojtZRM4-w0zMB4Iy2Ihg6fTErtQCnK_OcSMQaNLJxyF5ZOlOsj7yAPpa1vW2Gq5C9NORpDEy_YN4J-wgk_DapNpFZJPFgl4raZqo2CsAuouKHovnkiBA1NG8Zg_WsY0/s320/get_out_of_jail_free.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>But it's not necessarily the case that a doctor will be let off every time; every once in a while, justice shines through and knife-happy doctors are held accountable.</p><p>Take <a href="https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/lawsuit-over-babys-unwanted-circumcision/1840637/">the case in Florida</a> for example.</p><p>After a mother, Vera Delgado, had told doctors over and over that she did not want her child circumcised, the child was taken away and circumcised anyway while she was away from the NICU.</p><p>In this case, the mother sued for millions of dollars and she WON. </p><p>There have been other cases in the past where doctors faced SOME kind of accountability. I copied and pasted the following comments from the same thread as above:</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiygnLj1YQ4G8Kc1GpVAae2RWg-zTXo9CWNv1ToCwZ28Juy17j9sUoBhSiu0if0OBwXRUQsfddtZbdS5xsIG0-GMD6iDWms_CIDpQAgu1vdkCOo-Fo12RiIfhyphenhyphenxulNQ9BOc8RnTEzWhsQQ/s636/some+action.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="636" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiygnLj1YQ4G8Kc1GpVAae2RWg-zTXo9CWNv1ToCwZ28Juy17j9sUoBhSiu0if0OBwXRUQsfddtZbdS5xsIG0-GMD6iDWms_CIDpQAgu1vdkCOo-Fo12RiIfhyphenhyphenxulNQ9BOc8RnTEzWhsQQ/w400-h208/some+action.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>This isn't to say that circumcision cases simply can't be won, either.</p><p>In most cases where a circumcision goes beyond acceptable "harm" (destroying any healthy part of the body IS "harm"), parents are successful in suing doctors for millions. (Do a search on my blog for "litigation" and/or "lawsuits." I've posted plenty on here.)</p><p>But that's just it; in order for a circumcision to be considered "harmful" it has to go beyond what many doctors and nurses consider "harmless"; for those who perform circumcision, taking a child's foreskin, ripping it from its adhesion to the glans, crushing it in a clamp and then slicing it off, where 99.9% of human males are born with a foreskin, isn't considered "harm."</p><p>A circumcision botch where part or all of the glans (AKA "head of the penis"), "that" is "harm."</p><p>Are we seriously going to depend on subjective ideas of "harm?<br /></p><p>Because whether we like it or not, female circumcision (AKA "FGM") isn't considered "harm" by people in countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Egypt, Sudan and others.</p><p>Let's imagine a couple of hypothetical situations. <br /></p><p>What if an expatriate had their daughter in one of the above countries, and the daughter was circumcised "by mistake" in a hospital there?</p><p>Or what if a doctor from one of those countries immigrates to the United States and circumcises a child "by mistake?"</p><p>Could his or her alibi be <i>"Well, I don't consider it harm?"</i></p><p>That is now a thinkable possibility, given the fact that the ban on FGM in the United States has been deemed <i>"unconstitutional"</i> by <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2018/11/detroit-federal-ban-on-fgm-declared.html">a judge in a recent case</a>.</p><p>What about <i>"parental choice,"</i> which is quite possibly one of the greatest defenses of male infant circumcision in the US?</p><p>But most of all, what about a person's individual basic human rights to his own body?</p><p>From the same Facebook thread as above, a paralegal gave his account of a father who discovered his son was already circumcised after doctors kept asking him and his wife to sign the consent forms. The father demanded to see his child first, and that's how he found out.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOW3mkYaBbDmem44WqY9Urk16FMEbdVe3Z8sakzDAprtj9wPpHL49QHVaSxpUtagIswQ1xegCYCABXBF5oS48THUr0DAGdj20cPq76gTw8RX-JgoDEbp9otUapvKbTBWbiE4nOk-asUKg/s408/circumcise+first+-+permission+AFTERWARD.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="239" data-original-width="408" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOW3mkYaBbDmem44WqY9Urk16FMEbdVe3Z8sakzDAprtj9wPpHL49QHVaSxpUtagIswQ1xegCYCABXBF5oS48THUr0DAGdj20cPq76gTw8RX-JgoDEbp9otUapvKbTBWbiE4nOk-asUKg/w400-h234/circumcise+first+-+permission+AFTERWARD.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p> </p><p>I've heard it be commented before by some mothers, that doctors and nurses told them that they couldn't leave the hospital until the baby was circumcised. From the same thread:<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDWOAmGTJHbBpnB2vIpsXK07Tt-qF8eNeGo3cHgPUdKqN32R0SxJL-3Jdu2yOdFyG_USTdC-xI8kwZmkkW6eDtqjr9x8UzCwd4buurQhpuGXgBTRURiMcHQpSo0BvCdfxWdNKbTNWogVw/s454/must+take+home.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="233" data-original-width="454" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDWOAmGTJHbBpnB2vIpsXK07Tt-qF8eNeGo3cHgPUdKqN32R0SxJL-3Jdu2yOdFyG_USTdC-xI8kwZmkkW6eDtqjr9x8UzCwd4buurQhpuGXgBTRURiMcHQpSo0BvCdfxWdNKbTNWogVw/w400-h205/must+take+home.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>I've also heard of cases where the parents put their foot down on not having their child circumcised, and the hospital billing them for it anyway. Someone commented on this same thread:<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6V-B4V3IB-T-YCzo5y_SvuSw9OiklNn5CuITDJcTY4zuxIozfk1I6AacyA-YwDptJVcaDou5bmIOWPWp-n8jz5TEXW5SLVqjj5N7ssCar0BF09qbiqEah5ssFi1-nwZC3Xn61jZNsNZo/s455/billed+for+it+anyway.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="133" data-original-width="455" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6V-B4V3IB-T-YCzo5y_SvuSw9OiklNn5CuITDJcTY4zuxIozfk1I6AacyA-YwDptJVcaDou5bmIOWPWp-n8jz5TEXW5SLVqjj5N7ssCar0BF09qbiqEah5ssFi1-nwZC3Xn61jZNsNZo/w400-h118/billed+for+it+anyway.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Circumcision is a moneymaker, so of course there <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2019/09/when-someone-says-its-not-money.html">financial incentive</a> for doctors and nurses to push male infant circumcision on parents, even if it means lying to them about not having a choice in the matter.</p><p>As concerned American parents, we have got to stand up and demand to know what's going on here.</p><p>What is the AAP telling professionals across the country?</p><p>That it's OK to push male infant genital mutilation on parents in whatever which way possible?</p><p>There are CONSENT forms that need to be signed.</p><p>What's with this "You can't leave the hospital until the child is circumcised" BS?<br /></p><p>Do American parents have to simply always be watching their children like a hawk?</p><p>It seems that's what we've got to do, because even if we refuse to sign the circumcision consent forms and demand doctors not mutilate our children, there's nothing we can do legally.</p><p>From the same thread:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhNkB3IuZQ7j2Gr20Ch5nrEXSS_2D6GwrIk8ahabUI7qV8lTV2FPjutdCiwjMt7fBz4dUQ2BdWYOVPNZnbYTIVFICXcVqtp5NoB_wqYHwW8KBgHWIHbeXkWWCPq8NmGG8xrGts155wa_w/s943/mother%2527s+comments.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="943" data-original-width="629" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhNkB3IuZQ7j2Gr20Ch5nrEXSS_2D6GwrIk8ahabUI7qV8lTV2FPjutdCiwjMt7fBz4dUQ2BdWYOVPNZnbYTIVFICXcVqtp5NoB_wqYHwW8KBgHWIHbeXkWWCPq8NmGG8xrGts155wa_w/w426-h640/mother%2527s+comments.png" width="426" /></a></div><p></p><p>For any parent interested in litigation against doctors, nurses or hospitals that circumcised their children against their consent and express wishes, there is one group of lawyers that I know you should contact, and that's Attorneys for the Rights of the Child, AKA "ARCLaw." Google them, or click on the link down under "External Links." (Or, click <a href="https://www.arclaw.org/">here</a>.)<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJzpS_DwX3oto8ZPvR85hGY1vqEWqbFKbFrnEgxhnsRtXTy9n6S10Lv2_R7dLbGrbOmtFtf7wsSRVLks-euk9WdCaj6Ed3t-bciYsD7hAh2jwVo99NNEDWorlZ2c10f3Ur3-ywQgiBrrI/s737/ARCLaw+Logo.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="737" height="64" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJzpS_DwX3oto8ZPvR85hGY1vqEWqbFKbFrnEgxhnsRtXTy9n6S10Lv2_R7dLbGrbOmtFtf7wsSRVLks-euk9WdCaj6Ed3t-bciYsD7hAh2jwVo99NNEDWorlZ2c10f3Ur3-ywQgiBrrI/w400-h64/ARCLaw+Logo.png" width="400" /></a></div><p> <br />In a country where doctors can get away with mutilating your child's genitals, parents need to be warned and forearmed.</p><p><b>David Llewellyn: "The Circumcision Lawyer" <br /></b>On the same thread above, an attorney can be seen commenting.<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXA-AuLAHqjpR5CvA_KcUx8-bli-8yLEkv8XLIvDukwpARsu4nJxwNC9jTCS6u7na0p3OVkgikWDpyxV2XWveUxK3QBIOk3Vj_ii7cmw4pwDkuHxIKtH-58x2BFwzzlZ44afCrU5sku3I/s635/David+J+Llewellyn+comment.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="157" data-original-width="635" height="99" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXA-AuLAHqjpR5CvA_KcUx8-bli-8yLEkv8XLIvDukwpARsu4nJxwNC9jTCS6u7na0p3OVkgikWDpyxV2XWveUxK3QBIOk3Vj_ii7cmw4pwDkuHxIKtH-58x2BFwzzlZ44afCrU5sku3I/w400-h99/David+J+Llewellyn+comment.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p> That attorney is none other than David J. Llewellyn.<br /><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiebplFMdIObzezksF93SZeHT3owCfFYEb_7Z8zuKu0BUb-XiqnWoIs6FvpvE-XwIgizlimXBMGviI5Iix7bNRSS3vKfdLhYoxJ4MeY4iYTMdaYF3gULJbM8ofWNeOrlSciydwmXhCNiIo/s604/David+Llewellyn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="483" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiebplFMdIObzezksF93SZeHT3owCfFYEb_7Z8zuKu0BUb-XiqnWoIs6FvpvE-XwIgizlimXBMGviI5Iix7bNRSS3vKfdLhYoxJ4MeY4iYTMdaYF3gULJbM8ofWNeOrlSciydwmXhCNiIo/s320/David+Llewellyn.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <br />He is an unsung hero of the intactivist movement. One of his specialties is male infant circumcision. He is in fact the same David J. Llewellyn who sued <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2015/04/mogen-circumcision-clamp-manufacturers.html">Mogen</a> out of business in a 11-million dollar lawsuit. A news article regarding this lawsuit can be read <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/national/atlanta-lawyer-wins-million-lawsuit-for-family-botched-circumcision/P9Jewrh4v1GWStqGyfejiP/">here</a>. He has handled other million-dollar lawsuits as well. If there is anyone who knows about litigation involving male infant circumcision, it's this man. He has a Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/david.j.llewellyn.50">here</a>, as well as his own website, at <a href="http://thecircumcisionlawyer.com">thecircumcisionlawyer.com</a>.<br /><p></p><p><b>Related Posts:</b><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/10/muncie-circumcision-case-highway.html"><br />Muncie Circumcision Case: HIGHWAY ROBBERY</a></p><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2018/11/detroit-federal-ban-on-fgm-declared.html">DETROIT: Federal Ban on FGM Declared Unconstitutional<br /><br /></a><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2019/09/when-someone-says-its-not-money.html">When Someone Says It's Not the Money...</a></div></div><p><b>External Links:<br /></b><a href="https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/lawsuit-over-babys-unwanted-circumcision/1840637/">NBC Miami:<b> </b>Lawsuit Over Baby's Unwanted Circumcision </a></p><p><a href="https://www.arclaw.org/">Attorneys for the Rights of the Child</a></p><p><a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/national/atlanta-lawyer-wins-million-lawsuit-for-family-botched-circumcision/P9Jewrh4v1GWStqGyfejiP/">Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision</a></p><p><a href="http://thecircumcisionlawyer.com">David J Llewellyn: The Circumcision Lawyer</a> <br /></p><p> </p>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-39276023687797373472021-04-19T15:09:00.004-07:002021-04-20T09:40:51.763-07:00Daniel Barnz Mocks the French and Intact Men on HBO Max's "Generation" <div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgmY-i93rUXN46N6JgjA2AIhRnDyOTFrdjR2IAmfeYj9qXHWryrw-TDWzuv8IQGXv7-UYpQyQDghH_8iSWBvvxIroDikQ4o5cHZoGwO_bb34XCJJCUD9MgHgbT-BGx-77OPqaswJVxXxU/s735/Daniel+Barnz.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="735" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgmY-i93rUXN46N6JgjA2AIhRnDyOTFrdjR2IAmfeYj9qXHWryrw-TDWzuv8IQGXv7-UYpQyQDghH_8iSWBvvxIroDikQ4o5cHZoGwO_bb34XCJJCUD9MgHgbT-BGx-77OPqaswJVxXxU/w400-h272/Daniel+Barnz.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>It's been a while since I've posted on this blog. I've been busy with life, but male infant genital mutilation and how deeply entrenched it has become in my home culture still pisses me off.</p><p><b>Infant Genital Mutilation: Is It To Laugh?</b><br />Male infant circumcision is so entrenched in American culture that joking about it is common fare. If male infant genital mutilation weren't so accepted today, people would most likely think that these random insertions of mutilation jokes in our media was bizarre. Indeed, Europeans do think it's weird to see these jokes sprinkled into American television series and sitcoms. They don't think it's funny. That's because it's not funny. It's not funny, but Americans need to convince themselves that it is, so that they feel better about what they allow to happen to their baby boys 3,000 times a day.<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTZw7fTdBoG_-bSazmDgNk14Czh-Ynxg9c3ac8Vglv86Qmenk2C6t-clhMsQvSOI-NmvSi2-QoM1j3uw9J9Pn6zfFr8Jr8jdabeiF80vcDE2f4csLLpnRELkOkDzwJmixvkB8LTCBWKuY/s784/j+tells+a+circ+joke.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="784" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTZw7fTdBoG_-bSazmDgNk14Czh-Ynxg9c3ac8Vglv86Qmenk2C6t-clhMsQvSOI-NmvSi2-QoM1j3uw9J9Pn6zfFr8Jr8jdabeiF80vcDE2f4csLLpnRELkOkDzwJmixvkB8LTCBWKuY/w400-h255/j+tells+a+circ+joke.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Why do people laugh at something as tragic as male infant circumcision?</p><p>In the words of <a href="https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/516446/theres-psychological-reason-you-laugh-worst-times">one person</a>:</p><p></p><p></p><blockquote><p><i>“Sometimes people laugh when something is sad because they are trying to deflect going deeper into their emotions,” says <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoGaGLogaG1b7dhJjOj5rOw" target="_blank">Hopkins-Alvarez</a>.</i></p>
<p><i>“This may be an unconscious process that is occurring, not
necessarily a conscious one.” In other words, your mind is putting up a
type of wall to combat these overwhelming emotions—and it’s totally
normal.</i></p></blockquote><p></p><p><br />The reason people joke about male infant circumcision is to prevent themselves from seeing it for the sad tragedy that it is. Jokes about male genital mutilation serve the same function as anesthetic; it serves to try and numb the pain. The only problem is that, even when the anesthetic wears off, the reality of a mutilated penis and missing foreskin is indelible that it stays there for life.</p><p><i>"A man is circumcised as a baby when he is too young to remember," </i>some might say, in an attempt to belittle a circumcised man's feelings of resentment.<i> "How can he remember?"</i><i> </i>A circumcised man is reminded of his circumcision every time he
urinates, showers, masturbates or makes love. The question is,<i> "How could
he forget?"<br /> <br /></i></p><p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDxF6q5jQm8G0mhgn2VXBj6Z7tXtybpRKHVD7OMoK8DXfsFvwe1pWItJxnbq8CKz58Jw24NKz5J3R288KWvmXF93gLo0qj9FcdM0zvbIE48wt8-_z1cLNET5xpGvAE65QSEc5MyK6b1ic/s1200/scar.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDxF6q5jQm8G0mhgn2VXBj6Z7tXtybpRKHVD7OMoK8DXfsFvwe1pWItJxnbq8CKz58Jw24NKz5J3R288KWvmXF93gLo0qj9FcdM0zvbIE48wt8-_z1cLNET5xpGvAE65QSEc5MyK6b1ic/s320/scar.webp" width="320" /></a></i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Even if you "can't remember," it's still there, reminding you every day.</i></span><br /></div><div><i> </i><br />
Even if he can't actually remember, the scar is there day in and day out to remind him for the rest of his life.<br />
<p></p><p>Ergo, these "jokes" must continue as long as a male person is alive, and as long as male infant genital mutilation continues as a "custom" or "social norm." That is the purpose these male genital mutilation jokes serve.<br /></p><p><b>They've always been there... </b><br />Male infant circumcision jokes aren't new. You can look back on American media through the years, and they're there. They've always been there, but perhaps they've just happened so much that by this time it's so unoriginal the joke has become as old and worn as that famous riddle about a chicken crossing the road. They're not funny. They really aren't. Again, they're there to serve one purpose; numb Americans to what's happened to them, what's happened to their husbands and what's happened to their children.<br /><br />Check out <a href="http://www.circumstitions.com/TVSitcomsA-M.html">this link</a> for a list of male infant circumcision references on American television.</p><p>In my opinion, this is part of a bigger problem of belittling and disparaging men. Along with male genital mutilation jokes, it's not uncommon to see men being hit in the balls in movies and TV sitcoms as a comical device. Violence on boys and men and their genitals is funny, violence on girls and women is not.<br /></p><p>Male infant genital mutilation jokes need to stop.</p><p><b>The Elephant-sized Circumcision Scar in the Room</b><br />I'm going to dare and say something that others dare not, because it's politically incorrect to do so, and any criticism of anyone who identifies themselves as "Jewish", however removed from the religion or from Jewish ancestry they may be (the one-drop rule), will be condemned as a "Nazi." It's already considered to be "anti-semitic" to criticize male infant circumcision as it is.<br /></p><p></p><p>Any criticism of Jews or Judaism must be preceded by disclaimers, so here are mine:</p><p></p><p><b></b></p><blockquote><p><b>DISCLAIMER:</b><br />
<i>The views I express in this blog are my own
individual opinion, and they do not necessarily reflect the views of all
intactivists. I am but an individual with one opinion, and I do not
pretend to speak for the intactivist movement as a whole.<br /><br />I speak out against the forced circumcision of healthy, non-consenting
minors in any way, shape or form. I make no exception for "religion" nor
"cultural practice" of any kind. Please do not conflate my disdain for
the forced circumcision of minors with a belittlement of circumcised
men, or a hate for Jews.<br /><br />Male infant circumcision is not unique to Judaism; in the US, 80% of males are circumcised, only 0.6% or so who are Jews circumcised at a bris. It's disingenuous to paint criticism of male infant circumcision as "an attack on Jews and Judaism" when it has become such an ingrained part of American culture.<br /></i></p><p><i>This day and age, not all Jewish men are circumcised, and not all Jewish families circumcise their children. Some of the most outspoken people in our movement happen to be Jewish. Alternative ceremonies exist, such as the Bris Shalom, for families choosing to forgo the ritual cutting. I myself am an appreciator of Jewish tradition, music and culture.</i></p><p><i>If I'm pointing something out, it's not out of hate for Jewish people, it's out of disdain for the forced genital cutting of minors and the violation of the most basic of human rights.</i></p></blockquote><p></p><p><b>Commence My Pointing-Out</b><br />One thing that bothers me about male infant genital mutilation humor on television is that it seems it's almost always written by Jewish people.</p><p>I look up sitcoms where male infant genital mutilation is a joke, Seinfeld, Sex in the City, The Simpsons, The Nanny, and there they are. It's simply no secret that <a href="https://www.jewishexponent.com/2019/03/20/simpsons-writer-reveals-shows-jewish-bona-fides/">a lot of writers for American sitcoms happen to be Jewish</a>.<br /></p><p>And, of course, most, if not all of the time, it's not merely a joke about circumcision; it has to be the Jewishness of circumcision as a plot device.</p><p>On Seinfeld, Cosmo Kramer is being asked to be the sandek (the guy who holds the baby as the mohel fillets him), on The Simpsons, Krusty's father is about to perform a bris on a baby, on Sex and the City, Charlotte is Jewish, so her boyfriend must be circumcised (they play Jewish music and everything). The list goes on and on.<br /><br />It's not just sitcoms; it's movies too. Remember Ms. Doubtfire?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4x2ZMgtvXSTfsWD19C5iYxax353s485Wlow-YMleyneeU-gRYwY73XgvKBq_HSWJuhEDZMDeIoujz9cCvcFW2UBiY5ZnFTN0RBRC0ZGd-vQaXzxUAKABLnOrnzFCIdVE-a_0WwNOlxe0/s638/gribenes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="638" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4x2ZMgtvXSTfsWD19C5iYxax353s485Wlow-YMleyneeU-gRYwY73XgvKBq_HSWJuhEDZMDeIoujz9cCvcFW2UBiY5ZnFTN0RBRC0ZGd-vQaXzxUAKABLnOrnzFCIdVE-a_0WwNOlxe0/w400-h331/gribenes.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I remember watching this as a teenger asking myself<br />"What's gribenes? Why do people have moils?"</span><br /></div><div><p> And who could forget Robin Hood: Men in Tights?<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWNN4pYWzBYl_vYS7N6gZ23QUgWRMA1-F85Xk8U8VLB5J33oxfKdo_XFFYrSnr9OALDWxhXMOquCmcjpthyDbvhagQpWalEqIrzfRUeihqBm0flYbsz2XuLtoZPVEuiP6IFIrr1xenvPo/s886/mel+brooks+men+in+tights.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="886" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWNN4pYWzBYl_vYS7N6gZ23QUgWRMA1-F85Xk8U8VLB5J33oxfKdo_XFFYrSnr9OALDWxhXMOquCmcjpthyDbvhagQpWalEqIrzfRUeihqBm0flYbsz2XuLtoZPVEuiP6IFIrr1xenvPo/w400-h216/mel+brooks+men+in+tights.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">Robin Hood: A moyel... I don't believe I've ever heard of that profession. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: black;">Rabbi Tuckman: A moyel is a very important guy. He makes circumcisions. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: black;">Scarlet: What, pray tell, sir, is a circumcision? </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: black;">Rabbi Tuckman: It's the latest craze. The ladies love it! </span></span></p><p>Most Americans aren't Jewish, so they wouldn't understand half of what's going on, where for most Americans who are circumcised or who allowed this on their children it was a question of signing a consent form and not having to even be present for their child's mutilation procedure. So why is humor as it would pertain to a Jewish audience being thrust on the American public?<br /></p><p>I think I can understand why; self-preservation.</p><p>American males are already pre-dominantly circumcised, at about 80% of US males circumcised from birth, so the idea of male infant circumcision isn't all that foreign. However in recent years, male infant circumcision as "medicine" has come under scrutiny. Indeed, there was a time in the 80's where the American Academy of Pediatrics was already advising that male infant circumcision shouldn't be done. When male infant circumcision as "medicine" is questioned, next would be the ritual of male infant circumcision as performed by adherents of Judaism. Perhaps Jewish authors think that constantly inserting circumcision as a Jewish ritual in the American psyche might inoculate American culture against the outright questioning of what is the most cherished Jewish tradition. <br /></p><p>We must look at the history of male infant circumcision and understand where Jews are coming from.<br /></p><p>Jewish people have been on the defensive about the ritual mutilation of male infant babies since the time of the Maccabees. Among other things, Antiochus prohibited male infant circumcision. Jews were mocked by the Greeks, where Jewish men would attempt to regrow their foreskins by stretching out the remnants. (The rabbis at the time looked down on this and thus added the "peri'ah" procedure of ripping every last bit of the foreskin from the penile shaft so as to prevent restoration; this alone is why medicalized male infant circumcision is what it is today.) Jews were feared by Europeans, and stories of Jews using gentile baby blood to make matzo were invented to slander them (blood libel). On top of all of this, circumcision was prohibited by Nazi Germany and used as a marker to find Jews during the Holocaust. It is no surprise, then, that there would be Jewish comedy writers seeking to make light of this the most contentious ritual for Jewish people in order to normalize it and make acceptable to their audiences, especially in America, where most men are circumcised anyway.<br /></p><p><b>Male Circumcision in American Medicine and Medical Literature</b><br />It might not be that big of a problem if it were merely Jewish comedy writers writing male infant genital mutilation into American comedy, but it doesn't stop there.<br /></p><p>The propagation of male infant circumcision as<i> "medicine" </i>has been a great vindication and a boon for Jews. Whereas in the past, male infant circumcision was something Jews were ashamed about and didn't openly discuss, and circumcision in and of itself wasn't openly discussed in general, save to disparage it, today it's a common procedure in the United States and it's discussed in terms of<i> "potential medical benefits." </i>It was first touted as a way to stop boys and men from masturbating, and it has since been pushed as a way to prevent almost every disease imaginable, from bed-wetting, to asthma, to cancer, to STDs. It is currently pushed as a preventative measure for HIV in Africa. As it is currently thought of as a <i>"preventative measure,"</i> Jews no longer have to hide this practice and openly flaunt the fact that they circumcise their children. They're out of the closet, so to speak, and it goes without saying that they aim to stay that way.</p><p>I've already discussed Jewish authors and the Jewishness of circumcision as a plot device in American comedy, but let's look at Jewish authors of medical literature on the subject.<br /></p><p>Look into medical literature, and you'll find that there is a disproportionate number of Jewish authors all purporting the "benefits" of male infant circumcision. Look throughout <a href="http://www.whale.to/a/circumcision1.html">the history of male infant circumcision as medical panacea</a> and you'll see many Jewish names.</p><p>It was <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/04/circumcision-research-rehashed-findings.html">Aaron J. Fink</a> who invented the idea that male circumcision might prevent HIV transmission out of thin air; to date a demonstrable causal link is yet to be furnished. It was <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2016/08/edgar-schoen-americas-circumcision.html">Edgar Schoen</a> who steered the American Academy of Pediatrics from recommending against male infant circumcision. It's authors like Daniel Halperin who continue writing literature attempting to marry male circumcision to the reduction of HIV and other STDs. (There has yet to be a demonstrable causal link between male circumcision and the reduction HIV transmission furnished; to date, there is none.) It's Jewish directors like AAP director Susan Blank and CDC director Thomas Frieden that make sure male infant circumcision has a secure place in American medicine. (Current CDC director is Rochelle Walensky. More circumcision promotion shouldn’t be too surprising.)<br /></p><p>The Gomco Clamp, quite possibly the most widely used instrument for male infant circumcision second only to the Mogen clamp, was invented by <span class="ILfuVd NA6bn"><span class="hgKElc">Hiram S. Yellen, M.D. and Aaron A. Goldstein</span></span>. (Incidentally, the <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2015/04/mogen-circumcision-clamp-manufacturers.html">Mogen clamp</a> was also a Jewish invention.)</p><p>My intention is not to accuse Jewish people as a whole. That's not it at
all. As I've already said, some of the most outspoken voices in our
movement happen to be Jewish. I'm sure that most Jewish people don't
give this procedure any further thought than that, it's a Jewish
tradition, if a boy is born, he is circumcised and that's that. What I'm
saying is that there seems to be a disproportionate group of dedicated
Jewish authors with a religious conviction to defend what has been
historically a problematic ritual writing medical literature and writing
public health policy that affects the rest of the country and this is a
serious conflict of interest.<br /><br />Adherents of Judaism have a
religious conviction to circumcise their male children from birth, to
minimize or outright dismiss adverse outcomes from circumcision, while
exaggerating its<i> "medical benefits." </i>This conviction is at odds
with the capacity to give neutral, unbiased, dispassionate, objective
information and a genuine concern for public health. Religious adherence to beliefs is a problem that in any other case is called out. Creationism comes to mind. While we point out that adherents to Catholicism writing literature on abortion and birth control is a problem, while we condemn Islamic doctors who defend female genital cutting, Jewish doctors writing medical literature on male circumcision get a free pass. Why is that?</p><p>In 2012, Dr. Hatem Elhagaly, medical doctor and fellow at the American Academy of Pediatrics, was fired from Mayo Clinic for saying that female circumcision was recommended and even an "honor" for women. There were even <a href="https://www.change.org/p/revoke-the-certifications-of-hatem-elhagaly">calls on Change.org to have his certifications revoked</a>.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLKgWHaFKTupC81LFbpj30p8fcDcGLLC1mhljbWLPwpWVL4RUBD755_naryz-emKbv4oEnaD2x1B4ogN7G3tVZuqakbTYcs2yDi1aW2FsjywAyQMvUBb1U6CD8QM8VU206ya0o22ys80E/s497/Hatem+Elhagaly.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="497" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLKgWHaFKTupC81LFbpj30p8fcDcGLLC1mhljbWLPwpWVL4RUBD755_naryz-emKbv4oEnaD2x1B4ogN7G3tVZuqakbTYcs2yDi1aW2FsjywAyQMvUBb1U6CD8QM8VU206ya0o22ys80E/s320/Hatem+Elhagaly.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Female circumcision is recommended, even an honor for women."<br />~Dr. Hatem Elhagaly MD</span><br /></div><div><p>In 2018, Dr Ali Selim said <i>"We see female circumcision in the same way we see male circumcision. It
might be needed for one person and not another, and it has to be done
by a doctor and practised in a safe environment." </i>For this, he has been openly <a href="https://www.thejournal.ie/doctor-fgm-criticised-3844898-Feb2018/">criticized by various health organizations</a>.</p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL1KSvUkOUtbI2TULtjkg2z5JEXZSDHv9sZRyFFgK-towinyLXP1ttkAz6UvcyG-p-3-5-6nhqY3cIp-DtjgcfRevfmQAC02oLyGxjb6Il5RhSeCxKBJlhB-wthoztZ4yU9sTHkx7YgD4/s390/Dr+Ali+Selim.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL1KSvUkOUtbI2TULtjkg2z5JEXZSDHv9sZRyFFgK-towinyLXP1ttkAz6UvcyG-p-3-5-6nhqY3cIp-DtjgcfRevfmQAC02oLyGxjb6Il5RhSeCxKBJlhB-wthoztZ4yU9sTHkx7YgD4/s320/Dr+Ali+Selim.png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"If a parent wants his daughter to undergo female circumcision</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">then they should seek the advice of their doctor</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">as it can be
necessary for medical reasons."</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">~Dr. Ali Selim</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">"</span></div></div><div><p>When defending male infant circumcision, what it usually boils down to is <i>"It's culture, it's religion, it's tradition,"</i> yet "culture," nor religion, nor "tradition" are ever enough to justify any sort of female genital cutting. <i>"It's just a little piece of skin" </i>minimizes male infant circumcision, but the same amount of flesh would never be justified to be removed in girls or women.<br /> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpfeRpn_zt2zuDCGwXcVpZiYdHZaYfSW_r8nU01MZ1s0vaxvnU53gkLDkPx7fVgSR3fFGIAS6DoJysDrPtxbA7IVqttlMVqg72v85NNqu6hovZ8cxlsLd6eOshJtoXtJMsyQqXWSIuS8c/s960/severed_baby_4skin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="960" height="122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpfeRpn_zt2zuDCGwXcVpZiYdHZaYfSW_r8nU01MZ1s0vaxvnU53gkLDkPx7fVgSR3fFGIAS6DoJysDrPtxbA7IVqttlMVqg72v85NNqu6hovZ8cxlsLd6eOshJtoXtJMsyQqXWSIuS8c/w200-h122/severed_baby_4skin.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2LPLAgkcz-qmlSUBFoVgZ7fJvnYpeoAWD92QU4YzDeSH_mY_jeBMtvy0PUdTTbl_xF6Hly3GlY3c9SusfoRR7Sh8cDbi6M-Z4A9F3CrrLz_3x4zTRxMmR8-JBwOGDPEg9qYdKIUJzgSE/s819/Light+of+my+love+-+slit+clitoris+-+sunat.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="819" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2LPLAgkcz-qmlSUBFoVgZ7fJvnYpeoAWD92QU4YzDeSH_mY_jeBMtvy0PUdTTbl_xF6Hly3GlY3c9SusfoRR7Sh8cDbi6M-Z4A9F3CrrLz_3x4zTRxMmR8-JBwOGDPEg9qYdKIUJzgSE/w200-h150/Light+of+my+love+-+slit+clitoris+-+sunat.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Compared side by side: An infant foreskin and an infant clitoris<br />(Female infant circumcision is a thing in South-East Asia)</span><br /></div><div><br />I want readers to note the stark contrast and double-standards with which we judge male and female genital cutting. <i>"Religion, custom and tradition</i>" justify only male infant circumcision. The "little snip" narrative disappears when comparing the flesh removed side by side. Religious doctors attempting to clothe their tradition and religious believes can't pass muster this day and age. But yet, no one seems to think it's a problem when "studies" showing the "benefits" if male infant circumcision and medical policy based on them are written by adherents of a religion where male infant circumcision is seen as divine commandment.</div><div> </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ7hkCM7Yqotckw2bc9EnwJJ_7hH0eyFOMMIHbqYjZpRWaoqX0RA4VEwpKZtaP4pX0-a7T1llDYWJpAI60ssrh2V-Urn3MwZ3IlcRabXDNsKAAm-z-V7gY0d5cB4dij7iTVlfnv8pBU_Y/s247/andrew+freedman.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="247" data-original-width="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ7hkCM7Yqotckw2bc9EnwJJ_7hH0eyFOMMIHbqYjZpRWaoqX0RA4VEwpKZtaP4pX0-a7T1llDYWJpAI60ssrh2V-Urn3MwZ3IlcRabXDNsKAAm-z-V7gY0d5cB4dij7iTVlfnv8pBU_Y/s0/andrew+freedman.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"I circumcised him myself on my parents’ kitchen table</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">on the eighth day
of his life. But I did it for religious,</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">not medical reasons. I did it
because I had 3,000 years</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">of ancestors looking over my shoulder."</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">~Dr. Andrew Freedman, AAP Circumcision Taskforce 2012</span><br /></div></div><div><br /><p><b>The Shaming of French and Intact Men on HBO Max's "Generation"</b> <br />There is not a doubt in my mind that there are a number of Jewish
people in high places dedicated to protecting, safeguarding, purporting
and propagating male infant genital mutilation, the goal of which is
nothing more than the preservation of what is possibly their most
cherished tradition.</p><p>Screenwriter Daniel Barnz is no exception.</p><p>I
saw the cover picture of this blog post on my Facebook feed today, and I
thought I just had to post this. I would have thought that the male
infant genital mutilation joke had grown to be so unoriginal so as to be
dead by now, and yet, here it is on HBO in 2021.</p><p>I decided to look up <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Barnz ">Daniel Barnz' Wikipedia page</a>, and there it was. It always is.</p><p>Why is it that when you see male infant genital mutilation jokes it always turns out to be a Jewish person doing it?</p><p>I ask, but as I've already shown, I think we all know why.</p><p>More protection, more normalization, more promotion of male infant genital mutilation to the American masses.</p><p>The point, aim and goal of these jokes are clear.</p><p>Here, we have school girls joking about male infant genital mutilation. Oh Tee hee! How funny!</p><p>One of the girls says <i>"I prefer circumcised to uncircumcised."</i></p><p>The other says <i>"Doesn't being uncircumcised mean dick cheese?"</i>, followed by an obviously faked, obviously forced <i>"Tee hee."</i></p><p>The
message is clear; girls like circumcised penis, so girls watching this,
have your sons circumcised. Men, you don't want to be made fun of, so
insist on circumcision because <i>"dick cheese."</i><br /></p><p>First of all,
this idea needs to strike people as odd; a school girl of high school
age has already been around the block enough times that she has a
preference for what kinds of penises she <i>"prefers."</i></p><p>In the United States, where is she going to find all these intact men?</p><p>Male infant circumcision rates are falling, as low as 56.7% <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna44373820">according to the CDC</a>, but even so 80% of men are circumcised from birth. (Men already circumcised from birth aren't all going to suddenly disappear because the circumcision rate has fallen.)<br /></p><p>Fantasy.</p><p>And, of course, the girl who has the penis preference is a person of color.</p><p>So what's the message here?</p><p>The white girl is the stupid, air-headed inexperienced one, the black girl is the one who's the experienced slut who knows all there is to know about penises.</p><p>Like, do people not stop and think about the overt racial stereotyping that's going on here?<br /></p><p>I'd like to bring attention to what's being said; the dialogue goes something like:</p><blockquote><i>"Doesn't being uncircumcised mean dick cheese? Tee hee..."<br />"Isn't everyone circumcised?"<br />"No, they don't do it in France. But that's because they like stinky cheese."</i></blockquote>That's
not a direct transcription; I really don't want to watch this again to
get the exact quotes, but the joke went something along these lines.<p>Historically
Jews hold French people in disdain for eating pork and not being
circumcised. And that disdain is showing up here. It's also blatant misinformation the American public is being force-fed. Of course, the French
are not the only people who don't mutilate their boys at birth, at 70%
of men in the world being intact, Jews and Muslims are in the minority.
But just notice how the stab is specifically against French people and
how being uncircumcised is specifically a French thing.<br /><br />I thought we lived in an age where racial stereotyping and bashing an entire group of people, not to mention immutable characteristics, was supposed to be "problematic."<br /><br />Just imagine a similar scenario where a girl says <i>"Doesn't circumcision means baby boys get their dicks sucked on by mohels?"</i></p><p><i>"Tee hee... maybe Jews like bleeding baby peen..."</i><br /><br />See how that's not funny?</p><p>Let's just imagine a reverse scenario; how would two guys discussing a girl's
vagina play out?</p><p>Where a black guy tells a white guy <i>"I much prefer a
girl who's had her flaps trimmed,"</i> and the white guy says <i>"Isn't it true
that girls with large flaps get clitter litter?"</i> And the black guy says
<i>"Yeah, girls who haven't had their flaps trimmed smell like stinky
cheese."</i></p><p>Could you imagine the outrage???</p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“Objectifying women is the height of toxic masculinity!” they would say.</p><p>Something seriously needs to give HBO and Daniel Barnz a wake-up call.</p><p>We do not body-shame people.</p><p>We do not attack an entire ethnic group.</p><p>We do not joke about male infant genital mutilation.</p><p>That joke is old, out of touch, and it needs to die.</p><p>Joking
about male infant genital mutilation is out of touch in this day and
age; Americans aren't all circumcised; male infant circumcision is going
the way of blood-letting and head trepanation. Male infant circumcision
is not practiced in Australia, New Zealand, Ice Land, Norway, Finland,
Sweden, the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, pretty much the whole
of Europe. It's not a practice in Mexico, Brazil or anywhere outside of
the US in the Americas. These jokes attempt to marginalize and make
fun of what is actually anatomically correct genitals. It paints a false reality
for Americans and/which serves to miseducate and misinform. It's about
time they stop.</p><p><b>Conclusion</b><br />I realize that what I'm saying is going to make me unpopular among
intactivist but this needs to be said; I believe the reason male infant
circumcision continues in this country is because we give it golden calf
status, and nobody wants to speak out against male infant circumcision
for fear of being cancelled as "Nazi anti-Semite." While Jewish people aren't all plotting to circumcise gentiles as a collective, it is clear that there is a dedicated number of Jewish people pushing circumcision on the American public through entertainment and medical literature, and on the rest of the world through the UN and organizations like Operation Abraham under the guise of "HIV prevention." (Circumcision does not, cannot prevent HIV, and <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/02/where-circumcision-doesnt-prevent-hiv-ii.html">the United States is a glaringly obvious case in point</a>.) <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/01/edgar-schoen-showing-his-age.html">Edgar Schoen</a> tried and failed to push circumcision on all of Europe. Mohels like <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2014/07/canada-circumcision-evangelist-sets-his.html">Neil Pollock</a> are trying to spread their tradition in Africa and in the Caribbean. <a href="https://www.jpost.com/health-and-science/israelis-train-africans-to-circumcise-against-aids">Inon Schenker</a> is taking advantage of the current UN circumcision vindication to spread circumcision in Africa.</p>The whole reason male
infant circumcision continues in this country is because we treat the
issue of male infant circumcision with kid gloves. Nobody wants to criticize male
infant circumcision because once you do, you're Hitler. So when Jewish
comedy authors write circumcision jokes, the correct response is to
laugh. Maybe nervously, but yes, you must laugh. Or else. Or at least
not mention the fact that joking about this makes one uncomfortable.</div><div> </div><div>When authors of medical literature to the effect that circumcision
prevents Ebola virus just happen to be Jewish, no-one better point out
that conflict of interest, you Nazi.The lynchpin preventing male
infant circumcision from being stricken from American medicine for the
elective, non-medical mutilation that it is, is Holocaust guilt and the fear of being
perceived as an anti-Semite. People are afraid to point out the
confirmation bias in medical literature written by Jewish authors
because that is "anti-Semitic." And this lynchpin is held in place by
this steady drizzle of Jewish circumcision humor in American media.<p>I'm not saying that Jews are all as a collective plotting to circumcise gentiles in this country. That simply can't be true.<br /><br />What I'm saying is that it's a problem that there is a number of Jewish people are using their platforms in mass media to influence Americans and consumers of American entertainment.</p><p>It's a problem when Jewish authors who have a religious conviction to defend male infant circumcision are publishing medical literature with a confirmation bias.</p><p>We have no problem ousting religious defendants of female ritual cutting from western institutions of medicine, and yet, we try to pretend like this isn't a problem that Jewish defendants of male infant circumcision are writing medical literature and American medical policy, that it isn't a problem that Jewish organizations like Operation Abraham are in Africa promoting "mass circumcision" as "HIV prevention," that it isn't a problem that <a href="https://forward.com/news/israel/355525/israeli-mohel-tells-student-circumcisers-to-practice-on-african-babies/">mohels are outright telling apprentices to go to Africa to practice male infant circumcision on African boys</a>.</p><p>What I'm saying is that male infant genital mutilation jokes need to stop.</p><p>What I'm saying is that medical literature on male circumcision shouldn't be beyond scrutiny because it was written by Jewish authors.</p><p>What I'm saying is that we need to stop pretending like Jewish people filling medical literature with pro-circumcision "research" and then using said "research" to try and spread their endangered tradition to the rest of the world has
anything to do with a genuine concern for public health.</p><p>It is not "anti-Semitism" to apply the same rigorous scrutiny to literature regarding male infant circumcision that we normally apply to literature regarding female infant circumcision.</p>As long as we, collectively, as a
nation, continue to agree that we'll not apply the same scrutiny to male
genital cutting that we apply to female genital cutting, the genital
mutilation of males will continue.</div><div><p>We would NEVER allow the medicalization of FGM.<br /><br />We would NEVER allow doctors to perform FGM <i>"Because my religion/tradition/custom."</i></p><p>We would NEVER allow FGM <i>"Because I'm an oppressed minority." </i><br /><br />We would NEVER allow the joking of about FGM or making light of it in any way.<br /><br />We would NEVER joke about women’s immutable characteristics, the smells and substances their vaginas produce, the fact that they menstruate every month, or other normal, healthy bodily functions.<br /></p><p>We would NEVER shame or make fun of circumcised boys or men.</p><p>Joking about forcibly cutting the genitals of ANYBODY, making fun of French people, or ANY peoples that don’t practice infant genital cutting, or anatomically correct genitals in general is outdated and out of touch, not to mention hateful, bigoted, slanderous and racist.</p><p>It is simply NOT FUNNY and it has got to STOP.<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA6v4UG43-2089p850drrCPpq1zQ_wtWJaM0jfE491S7ui73ZYKa-3ZXmp4fhW93LK777Z530nC3iXCfyw2Suvm3Bt9VG8QXU1PW4t1F3oDXPPdrslJ1nOldu-tg_yuDi1WkNvr657cFg/s522/christopher+hitchens.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA6v4UG43-2089p850drrCPpq1zQ_wtWJaM0jfE491S7ui73ZYKa-3ZXmp4fhW93LK777Z530nC3iXCfyw2Suvm3Bt9VG8QXU1PW4t1F3oDXPPdrslJ1nOldu-tg_yuDi1WkNvr657cFg/s320/christopher+hitchens.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><i>Genital mutilation is no joke. ~Christopher Hitchens</i></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p><b>DISCLAIMER:</b><br />
The views I express in this blog are my own
individual opinion, and they do not necessarily reflect the views of all
intactivists. I am but an individual with one opinion, and I do not
pretend to speak for the intactivist movement as a whole, thank you.<br />
~Joseph4GI
</p><div><div><p><b>Related Posts:</b><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/02/intactivism-its-not-just-for-gentiles.html"><br />Intactivism: It's Not Just for Gentiles Anymore</a></p><p><a href="http://joseph4gi.blogspot.jp/2012/02/planned-parenthood-mutilated-is-new.html">PLANNED PARENTHOOD: Mutilated is the New "Normal"</a></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/02/politically-correct-research-when.html">Politically Correct Research: When Science, Morals and Political Agendas Collide</a></span></span></h3><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2020/05/commedians-openly-criticising.html">Commedians Openly Criticising Circumcision</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/06/anti-semite-card-no-longer-washes.html">The "Anti-Semite" Card No Longer Washes</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/04/circumcision-research-rehashed-findings.html">CIRCUMCISION "RESEARCH": Rehashed Findings and Misleading Headlines</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2015/04/mogen-circumcision-clamp-manufacturers.html">Mogen Circumcision Clamp Manufacturers Face Civil Lawsuit</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2014/07/canada-circumcision-evangelist-sets-his.html">CANADA: Circumcision Evangelist Sets His Sights for Haiti, Caribbean</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/01/edgar-schoen-showing-his-age.html">Edgar Schoen Showing His Age</a></div></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><b> </b></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/02/where-circumcision-doesnt-prevent-hiv-ii.html">Where Circumcision Doesn't Prevent HIV II</a></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><b> </b></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><b>External Links:</b><br /> <div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.jewishpress.com/news/yoris-daily-news-clips/us-pediatric-doctor-favors-female-circumcision/2012/04/30/">US Pediatric Doctor Favors Female Circumcision</a></div><div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"> </div></div></div></div></div><div class="chv3-blogstyle-title" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://inthenews.mayoclinic.org/2012/05/18/mayo-clinic-fires-doctor-who-said-female-genital-mutilation-is-an-honor-for-women/">Mayo Clinic Fires Doctor Who Said Female Genital Mutilation is an “Honor” for Women</a></div><div class="chv3-blogstyle-title" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://religiondispatches.org/muslim-opponent-of-fgm-ousted-from-mayo-clinic/">Muslim Opponent of FGM Ousted From Mayo Clinic</a></div><div class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="mtl mbxxxl xs-mts xs-mbxs type-break-word petition-title" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.change.org/p/revoke-the-certifications-of-hatem-elhagaly">Change.org - Revoke the Certifications of Hatem Elhagaly</a></div><div class="mtl mbxxxl xs-mts xs-mbxs type-break-word petition-title" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="mtl mbxxxl xs-mts xs-mbxs type-break-word petition-title" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.thejournal.ie/doctor-fgm-criticised-3844898-Feb2018/">Muslim spokesman criticised for saying it's acceptable for girls to undergo FGM</a> </div><div class="mtl mbxxxl xs-mts xs-mbxs type-break-word petition-title" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="mtl mbxxxl xs-mts xs-mbxs type-break-word petition-title" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://forward.com/news/israel/355525/israeli-mohel-tells-student-circumcisers-to-practice-on-african-babies/">Israeli Mohel Tells Student Circumcisers to Practice on African Babies</a></div><div class="mtl mbxxxl xs-mts xs-mbxs type-break-word petition-title" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="mtl mbxxxl xs-mts xs-mbxs type-break-word petition-title" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.jewishexponent.com/2019/03/20/simpsons-writer-reveals-shows-jewish-bona-fides/">Simpsons’ Writer Reveals Show’s Jewish Bona Fides</a></div><div class="mtl mbxxxl xs-mts xs-mbxs type-break-word petition-title" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="mtl mbxxxl xs-mts xs-mbxs type-break-word petition-title" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna44373820">Fewer baby boys getting circumcised, CDC says</a></div><div class="mtl mbxxxl xs-mts xs-mbxs type-break-word petition-title" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="mtl mbxxxl xs-mts xs-mbxs type-break-word petition-title" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/health-and-science/israelis-train-africans-to-circumcise-against-aids">Israelis train Africans to circumcise against AIDS</a></div></div></div></div>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-18189599397487560492020-12-29T07:43:00.002-08:002021-04-20T08:55:46.705-07:00The Future of This Blog<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijEF6jwoTzk0OvKe3-40tLowtCMXoTsnEgj_Nb9M6-VKkG2Ok1wPGuwPU0gVaXqOYMKlKflRXP4cMZkcwCCwYTHoUxZBsX61VeslonWFRUR-Kh7ZIQ6vYjjYTHIjGnOXH49P88QXfl7M4/s1000/over+horizon.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="1000" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijEF6jwoTzk0OvKe3-40tLowtCMXoTsnEgj_Nb9M6-VKkG2Ok1wPGuwPU0gVaXqOYMKlKflRXP4cMZkcwCCwYTHoUxZBsX61VeslonWFRUR-Kh7ZIQ6vYjjYTHIjGnOXH49P88QXfl7M4/w400-h226/over+horizon.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>Well, it's been nearly a decade since I started this blog.</p><p>I've tried to faithfully publish my thoughts by making at least one post monthly for nearly 10 years and now I wonder what the future of this blog will be.</p><p>The fight to end the forced genital cutting of healthy, non-consenting minors is far from over, in my home country of the United States, let alone the rest of the world.</p><p>However, I do feel that the intactivist movement has made strides.</p><p>It had been nearly 15 years since I first started questioning circumcision when I decided to start this blog in 2011, and now in 2020 it has been about 24 years since, and a lot has changed.</p><p>When I first started researching the topic of circumcision on the internet in say, 1996, there were few resources on the topic, most of which were, in my view, very pro-circumcision.</p><p>Indeed, the first website that ever came up in AltaVista (Do you remember that?) was circlist.</p><p>There were, of course, also, a few organizations that opposed male infant circumcision, but I found those much later in my journey.</p><p>The topic of male infant circumcision was a lot more taboo.</p><p>In parenting forums, the bias was always mostly in favor of circumcision.</p><p>If anyone ever questioned it, they were usually shouted down by all the other pro-circ parents.</p><p>Nowadays, it's not the same.</p><p>Where I would see a parent questioning circumcision be overwhelmed by pro-circ parents, now I see more and more parents speaking out in defense leaving baby boys intact.</p><p>I used to be one of those activists who always felt the need to counter pro-circ comments on parenting forums, Facebook and other mediums, and I always felt so alone to be practically the only one speaking out.</p><p>Now, when I see nasty comments on the internet mocking anatomically correct male organs, I scroll down and I don't even have to comment; there are now enough aware parents out there speaking out.</p><p>Sadly, an increase in the intactivist voice among parents also means that a lot of parenting forums and groups have also taken it upon themselves to silence this conversation.</p><p>This is a disservice to parents and their children, because this means that parents aren't making fully informed decisions; you can't make a fully informed decision if factual information is deemed "offensive."</p><p>Since I started this blog, new organizations opposing the forced genital cutting of healthy, non-consenting minors have arisen.</p><p><a href="https://intactamerica.org/">IntactAmerica</a>, <a href="https://intaction.org/">Intaction</a>, and <a href="https://www.genitalautonomy.org/">Genital Autonomy</a> just to name a few.</p><p>The information database intactiwiki.org has been established.</p><p>The award-winning film <a href="https://circumcisionmovie.com/">American Circumcision</a> was published and was even available on Netflix.</p><p>Activist <a href="https://www.clopper.com/">Eric Clopper</a> spoke out in a performance he gave at Harvard University; the university has effectively cancelled him and he is now involved in a defamation lawsuit against them.<br /></p><p>Male infant circumcision is now being talked about in the mainstream, and it simply is not the taboo subject it once was.</p><p>But while more than ever, there is awareness of what's going on in American hospitals, the practice of male infant genital mutilation continues.</p><p>The practice continues because it's a moneymaker and doctors have no real reason to stop, even though, reaping profit from performing non-medical surgery on healthy, non-consenting individuals already constitutes medical fraud.</p><p>There is still a need to bang the intactivist pot.</p><p>For this reason, I plan on continuing to publish on this blog, although I'm sad to announce that from now on, it won't be as often as I'd like.</p><p>The sad truth is that your blogger is becoming more and more busy with life.</p><p>He is a father of three wonderful children and he works a job whose hours are increasing to support his family.</p><p>All is not lost, however; in a way, the goals of my blog are already being achieved.</p><p>As I've stated already, more and more circumcision is less of a taboo subject; there is more awareness and the topic is being discussed more openly.</p><p>Though I project my presence on this blog is going to decrease in the coming years, there are already other voices speaking out to replace me.</p><p>I'm just too busy with my job and family to keep up with any of the latest developments.</p><p>And others are already articulating my thoughts and sentiments more tactfully and eloquently than I ever could.</p><p>So with this post, I announce that I'll be stepping down, albeit not completely.</p><p>I'll still be around to post from time to time, but not as frequently as I'd like.</p><p>Up until now, I had been trying to post at least once a month, but I think that more and more, this is becoming less possible.</p><p>I'd like to thank all my readership that has followed me this far.</p><p>Do check back here from time to time, as I'll still be posting.</p><p>Who knows! Maybe I'll find something to post about every month.</p><p>I just can't make any promises.</p><p>May male infant genital mutilation disappear from American hospitals, truly, every hospital, and soon.</p><p>I pray for intactivism for one day to be obsolete, and relegated to the past, where it belongs.<br /></p>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-63254696543829754542020-11-17T16:45:00.006-08:002020-11-17T16:45:57.790-08:00Parallels: Comparing Tattoos and Circumcision<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipJoeazhaOeRUuXAkI6RQkx7i6kiLd5YF7Om3sMxfgoSGsFufYLITr6UQvFXWkVLqBTLyVfN3YkapI3n4r5LEvTQg1WMY76mp77zcM-0QY6nHOp0Xjq3mTDg3fHzaofgnySdivsLFO8vs/s970/getting+a+tattoo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="970" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipJoeazhaOeRUuXAkI6RQkx7i6kiLd5YF7Om3sMxfgoSGsFufYLITr6UQvFXWkVLqBTLyVfN3YkapI3n4r5LEvTQg1WMY76mp77zcM-0QY6nHOp0Xjq3mTDg3fHzaofgnySdivsLFO8vs/w400-h165/getting+a+tattoo.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;">A while back, I wrote <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2013/09/repost-of-ecstasy-and-rape-surgery-and.html">a post comparing male infant circumcision to rape</a>, and I briefly touched upon tattoos to talk about the principle of consent. I'll copy/paste the excerpt here:</div><br /><div class="scnt">
<span class="ssens"><b></b></span></div><blockquote><div class="scnt"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span class="ssens"><b>Consent is at the center of the intactivist argument</b></span></i></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>...<br /></i></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br />The difference is consent.<br /></i></span>
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There
is nothing wrong with male circumcision, if, indeed, becoming
circumcised is the express wish of the adult male in question.<br /></i></span>
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It is forcibly circumcising a healthy, non-consenting minor which is a problem. <br /></i></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br />
Tattoos
are beautiful to some. There is nothing wrong with a tattoo, as long a
person is giving his full consent. A person interested in getting a
tattoo need only walk into a tattoo parlor and make the proper
arrangements, s/he is free to do as s/he wishes with his/her own body.<br /></i></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>US sailor agrees to have his body tattooed</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br />
It is forcibly tattooing a person against his or her wishes which is a problem.<br /></i></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>An Auschwitz survivor displays his identification tattoo</i></span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><i></i></div><p>
<br />In this post, I wanted to expand on this thought just a little more, as the more I think about this, the more comparable male circumcision is to a tattoo.</p><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Purely Cosmetic</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">A tattoo has no medical value; it is purely cosmetic. They are obtained as a visible marker of religious or cultural distinction, or purely for aesthetic value. Barring medical necessity (and this is extremely rare), the same is true for male circumcision. Men are usually only ever circumcised as a marker of religious or cultural distinction, or because it is thought to be more sexually attractive and/or aesthetically pleasing. Unless there is medical indication, male circumcision is purely cosmetic.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFaVGd7xGXqeN5jOZ1fzQP5ZnnkaRqc7YzL4n9qkQH0-LfIhfBmYZUeaThJ8V7enWvfQMFjAdRqMEDeJpIRUBz32txxbEK8Edc7zltXHAk9k7JT4NHRqXokNKmA-z3irLLCCvZ6NjcG54/s926/cosmetic+surgery.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="926" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFaVGd7xGXqeN5jOZ1fzQP5ZnnkaRqc7YzL4n9qkQH0-LfIhfBmYZUeaThJ8V7enWvfQMFjAdRqMEDeJpIRUBz32txxbEK8Edc7zltXHAk9k7JT4NHRqXokNKmA-z3irLLCCvZ6NjcG54/s320/cosmetic+surgery.webp" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b>Aesthetic Value</b><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;">Let's face it; tattoos can be beautiful works of art. A tattoo artist has skill, and a person can be a living canvas. In a certain light, circumcised penises can be beautiful. A certain aesthetic other than what is natural can be desired. As a wood or marble block can be chiseled to a desire shape, as flowers can be arranged to a desired form, the penis can be surgically manipulated to have a desired appearance. It is possible to appreciate such works of art. The circumcised male may be a willing or unwitting canvas through which a a circumcision "artist" (or amateur) can display his artistic skill (or lack thereof). In <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2019/03/poetry-corner-to-me.html">a past post</a>, I compare male circumcision to Japanese flower arrangement.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEighE8KwEANh68m9I9yPsPrzCMLYtR412J60q6_O3wRVfyMBDlX1GyhDGNUWHYL4HTt0c-Tq8McQBeKajgc1K5YML2Souuh4qn_2J7i6c_NShSy5cww32mKd4H0rsg6bU-oJAkip52p0n4/s1280/bonsai+prune.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEighE8KwEANh68m9I9yPsPrzCMLYtR412J60q6_O3wRVfyMBDlX1GyhDGNUWHYL4HTt0c-Tq8McQBeKajgc1K5YML2Souuh4qn_2J7i6c_NShSy5cww32mKd4H0rsg6bU-oJAkip52p0n4/s320/bonsai+prune.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A bonsai master carefully prunes a work. A circumcised<br />and/or tattoed man can be compared to a bonsai tree;<br />a living means for another's artistic expression.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Pride</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">A tattoo can be a source of pride, especially when a desired aesthetic value is achieved. Men or women can be the proud bearers of art created by a masterful tattoo artist. Just the same, a circumcised man can be proud that he has (what he and/or others perceive to be) an aesthetically pleasing penis.<br /><br /><b><br /></b><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeW7hWX6v93Yjnl5MV8NWWEYBZESCQroZpax4sppfA0_zXfByDOD40TmlvHaT4_RlUn0ZK0fXVoCCapgUSlyuYy0eBOcg5sW8qVOuBdkBtmtv5ciln7sK78udYct3ACcNKKqcQzq4kjak/s1200/men+and+women+tattoo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="1200" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeW7hWX6v93Yjnl5MV8NWWEYBZESCQroZpax4sppfA0_zXfByDOD40TmlvHaT4_RlUn0ZK0fXVoCCapgUSlyuYy0eBOcg5sW8qVOuBdkBtmtv5ciln7sK78udYct3ACcNKKqcQzq4kjak/w400-h209/men+and+women+tattoo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Men and women alike can be proud to have tattoos<br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Identity<br /></b>In some cultures, tattoos are a source of religious or cultural identity. The Ainu people of Northern Japan traditionally tattoo the mouths of women.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLLsBGaqRKArIOc0yV6__qAf8TU7TDS3dx0ObN4kBbBdKB6sbqfve0cdrrrqYz-ECRbFwZZQJxTwPiu-zsZ0yXqVCaHMbkY0RJmodykUA_N2zEV0j1yltnlaR8Qi-7w0kV9sEbu6J7cg0/s648/tattoo+ainu.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="648" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLLsBGaqRKArIOc0yV6__qAf8TU7TDS3dx0ObN4kBbBdKB6sbqfve0cdrrrqYz-ECRbFwZZQJxTwPiu-zsZ0yXqVCaHMbkY0RJmodykUA_N2zEV0j1yltnlaR8Qi-7w0kV9sEbu6J7cg0/s320/tattoo+ainu.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Traditionally, Berber women's faces are tattooed.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6pcRzU0H-DRvrEalh7kCrccsrwFfyT9YrurI1ecJqC8qmY8UXYMI57euE4aKOkGdc-_5zejaX2tKVXN92vp3P81A8K6EsdbVe_FzAPZVZCYl2MHahK_7CaYWuwgtW3aYXFUkVdWFKF_8/s570/berber+woman.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="570" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6pcRzU0H-DRvrEalh7kCrccsrwFfyT9YrurI1ecJqC8qmY8UXYMI57euE4aKOkGdc-_5zejaX2tKVXN92vp3P81A8K6EsdbVe_FzAPZVZCYl2MHahK_7CaYWuwgtW3aYXFUkVdWFKF_8/w400-h168/berber+woman.webp" width="400" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />And who can forget the traditional face tattoos of the Maori tribe?<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR448NMIVid5AlHCHWirBU8AXIjIWXWz7rtw-17Tk-_Xwz7gYMc0p10KHtqK3Sw45JTHwUHrDdjpNoXkKzSnRNORJlW-WN05O-jWHm2TO4ke1i8Wx8VQrBDozTD3oKIknTlRI4NNWF6CI/s740/maori+tattoo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="491" data-original-width="740" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR448NMIVid5AlHCHWirBU8AXIjIWXWz7rtw-17Tk-_Xwz7gYMc0p10KHtqK3Sw45JTHwUHrDdjpNoXkKzSnRNORJlW-WN05O-jWHm2TO4ke1i8Wx8VQrBDozTD3oKIknTlRI4NNWF6CI/s320/maori+tattoo.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In yet other cultures, tattoos mark a man as being a member of a particular group. In Edo Japan, for example, tattoos marked men of a particular trade, such as firemen and fishermen.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9aqBDkiOvhbqaG8tLJfZfTSepGZEbNxulvrKkID-0Oi9RW7xh4NwXSXgSWKw808M3ToDD5yee4avomSNHde73Rh0wDxotRx4mOaELltHIFboLLDIVVXSOf6YL6hAsqQvVoGL_WFk_-sQ/s1400/edo+fireman.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="953" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9aqBDkiOvhbqaG8tLJfZfTSepGZEbNxulvrKkID-0Oi9RW7xh4NwXSXgSWKw808M3ToDD5yee4avomSNHde73Rh0wDxotRx4mOaELltHIFboLLDIVVXSOf6YL6hAsqQvVoGL_WFk_-sQ/s320/edo+fireman.jpg" /></a> <br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Fireman in the Edo Period</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />It's no secret that members of the yakuza gangs of Japan are distinguished by elaborate tattoos.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj11eHqv1kFQfJ_dHEaryEfi2Y_RpZMUjhto1oniAUJUpfetC7xlNK0HdJsZmzm_toQFoUCAiiZMKPcc0GWtllUFVjG13dL25pKTt9efj_ODbVnemSnLR4Wm_MXi9k3VB7TTU4zIru_hp0/s976/yakuza+tat.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="976" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj11eHqv1kFQfJ_dHEaryEfi2Y_RpZMUjhto1oniAUJUpfetC7xlNK0HdJsZmzm_toQFoUCAiiZMKPcc0GWtllUFVjG13dL25pKTt9efj_ODbVnemSnLR4Wm_MXi9k3VB7TTU4zIru_hp0/s320/yakuza+tat.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yakuza gang member displaying his membership</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">That Jews, Muslims and other peoples use circumcision as a source of cultural identity needs no mention.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In Ancient Egypt, circumcision distinguished priests from the rest of the population.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg99EzFB2OGOL8zNYu7K5a4eQTMcKe5ncGXHAuLFxDXPgPRE0jyzCQQ412us0dy2Ekhm_laL9NuWcvNWjnvHgT9hTkS0pcgN94wfPA_DvXwvWc0ySvdJN5sC35SuzVn1zIwbvs8XrZis4/s400/egypt+circ.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="229" data-original-width="400" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg99EzFB2OGOL8zNYu7K5a4eQTMcKe5ncGXHAuLFxDXPgPRE0jyzCQQ412us0dy2Ekhm_laL9NuWcvNWjnvHgT9hTkS0pcgN94wfPA_DvXwvWc0ySvdJN5sC35SuzVn1zIwbvs8XrZis4/w400-h229/egypt+circ.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Indeed, to distinguish one group from the other has always been the point of male circumcision.<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br />A Botched Job<br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Sometimes, a tattoo doesn't quite turn out as intended by either the tattoo artist or the person getting a tattoo. Sometimes the tattoo can be "saved", and sometimes it just can't be, or is even made worse, and a person has to live the rest of his life with an ugly tattoo on his or her body.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmKfw7ssSrDacOzLs_QTYDfO9gs7ekTgyn1xfPKOhUpCPxencTn_v-i3OUybijIsqaepZDZBeDyk7nXAZkbAkIMpNCgL0_le-g09LP_BQIN2Jxy77AjEe4SwhlmMKl77akGXF8QMKXuVA/s630/tattoo+fix.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="301" data-original-width="630" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmKfw7ssSrDacOzLs_QTYDfO9gs7ekTgyn1xfPKOhUpCPxencTn_v-i3OUybijIsqaepZDZBeDyk7nXAZkbAkIMpNCgL0_le-g09LP_BQIN2Jxy77AjEe4SwhlmMKl77akGXF8QMKXuVA/w400-h191/tattoo+fix.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sometimes tattoo botches can be salvaged, but not always.</span><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">The same can be true of male circumcision. Sometimes the doctor screws up and cuts off too much or too little skin. The scar may not be perfectly circular but uneven, or may even have horrific stretch marks where too little skin was left. At times, so much skin is removed from the penis that skin with pubic hair rides up the shaft. It is not unheard of for children to undergo circumcision "correction" surgery; that is how <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2011/05/circumcision-botches-and-elephant-in.html">some doctors make their living</a>. Sometimes adult men can go in for "correction" too. But other times, there is just nothing a doctor can do to "fix" a problem that should have never been caused in the first place, and a man has to live with a botched circumcision job and a deformed organ for the rest of his life. There will be no pride for him.<b><br /><br />Oppression and Shame</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Tattoos can be used to oppress people. I've already talked about the example of Nazi Germany tattooing Jews at a concentration camp.<br /><br /><b> </b><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQfnnhvfFxO0NaIPnwcDNmGt85mH8RrczRbiXa2T7QisS57oQHbvAV9PDAkGlxHgEo0g4dPYPSWELarG5w5j8RLX4SG5Jqr4_WckrqDcMBzcqqpNMR_0kNyb4K5jT-__lSnUPgsu5Yqak/s651/Auschwitz_tattoo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="651" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQfnnhvfFxO0NaIPnwcDNmGt85mH8RrczRbiXa2T7QisS57oQHbvAV9PDAkGlxHgEo0g4dPYPSWELarG5w5j8RLX4SG5Jqr4_WckrqDcMBzcqqpNMR_0kNyb4K5jT-__lSnUPgsu5Yqak/s320/Auschwitz_tattoo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The arm of a Holocaust survivor with an ID number tattoo</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Historically, slaves were branded with tattoos across many cultures. The bible outlines that Jews circumcise their slaves (Genesis 17:12, 13) .</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In some cultures, circumcision is used as a tool of oppression or humiliation. In Africa, for example, some tribes are very strict about their male members being circumcised, and if for whatever reason, a male is found to have skipped the circumcision ritual, he will be paraded along the streets, publicly humiliated and circumcised. In addition,<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28746101"> members of a circumcising tribe will forcibly circumcise male members of a rival non-circumcising tribe</a> as a sign of dominance. Tribes known to do this are the Kikuyu and Bagisu tribes.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In the Bible, Jews would circumcise their enemies as a sign of dominance and/or retribution (Gen. 34:14-17, 25-26, 1 Sam 18:27). In some Islamic countries, non-Muslims have been forcibly circumcised and forcibly converted to Islam. Forced circumcisions as part of forced conversion to Islam <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-mar-13-mn-36955-story.html">have continued to this very day</a>.<br /><b></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Therapeutic Value</b><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;">Sometimes, a tattoo can serve therapeutic purpose. In the event a woman loses a breast to cancer, a skillful tattoo artist can create a nipple where one would be for aesthetic purposes, for example.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvkBVzNsyCHXsL2UXO-yrKldCUzldM8h4EpwLk_Kcwb8jOdX1JB9k5FTuq21IcpTcnUrE7k7aFTiSzFIsVAUQQ_Tl5DGDHnNj9srZMRcfXCsjmZRtTLkvVzyNxrttVJOkykd-JdeV7fiY/s560/tattooed+nipple.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvkBVzNsyCHXsL2UXO-yrKldCUzldM8h4EpwLk_Kcwb8jOdX1JB9k5FTuq21IcpTcnUrE7k7aFTiSzFIsVAUQQ_Tl5DGDHnNj9srZMRcfXCsjmZRtTLkvVzyNxrttVJOkykd-JdeV7fiY/s320/tattooed+nipple.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This "nipple" is actually tattoo</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Perhaps a person suffered an accident and is left with a horrific scar; a tattoo artist can creatively hide the scar by tattooing over it with something more aesthetically pleasing.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjc-c20UTmSx4wQ3WXfGZMSGKylntQ7R5asexgoua-TGJH7ewVRRYGrO5cJkdzPEqnZp19Z-2J5GzCWoKcr_ZagpaUPe456P_Iga-TmkgkyTra6Mjy1cwBrKllyp9UdfcVGOAp6L-_gqs/s640/scar+tattoo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjc-c20UTmSx4wQ3WXfGZMSGKylntQ7R5asexgoua-TGJH7ewVRRYGrO5cJkdzPEqnZp19Z-2J5GzCWoKcr_ZagpaUPe456P_Iga-TmkgkyTra6Mjy1cwBrKllyp9UdfcVGOAp6L-_gqs/s320/scar+tattoo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This elaborate tattoo hides a scar</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Sometimes men do develop problems where circumcision is surgically indicated. It is rare, but sometimes men do develop <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2016/09/phimosis-lost-knowledge-missing-in.html">phimosis</a>, and a man may or may not choose to get circumcised. (Not all phimosis cases warrant surgery, and it is possible for a man to live with phimosis for the rest of his life.) So yes, sometimes circumcision may actually serve a medicinal purpose.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The Difference is Consent<br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">For the most part, tattoos are cosmetic alterations. They can be aesthetically pleasing and a source of pride. There's nothing wrong with getting a tattoo, if indeed, that's what a person wants. A person should be free to get as many tattoos as they want, so long as they understand the risks involved, as it is their body and their choice. Most would agree, however, that there is a problem when a person is forced to get a tattoo. Parents in the US have <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2016/06/alabama-mother-busted-for-tattooing-son.html">gone to jail for tattooing their children</a>, as well as <a href="https://www.joseph4gi.com/2016/06/las-vegas-parents-in-hot-water-after.html">for modifying other parts of their bodies</a> and rightfully so. The German concentration camp tattoo is an example of forced tattooing that is all too familiar. In addition, there are actually some cultures where children are forcibly tattooed as part of culture or religion.<br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWcuwHxZKFbN9VYeTWqbDZFhiwn8N5T8yVkOliQ6tROnuRVB6sZFYx-s_FjdEZ3sHqvp2YxJppMPRLoBIhVfrWgLfCfxtGUKqmD4eNvD4lCCkqwU0f4TPk4dbeEN-CWZHvXOcBDjR29JY/s628/kopt+child+getting+a+tattoo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="628" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWcuwHxZKFbN9VYeTWqbDZFhiwn8N5T8yVkOliQ6tROnuRVB6sZFYx-s_FjdEZ3sHqvp2YxJppMPRLoBIhVfrWgLfCfxtGUKqmD4eNvD4lCCkqwU0f4TPk4dbeEN-CWZHvXOcBDjR29JY/s320/kopt+child+getting+a+tattoo.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A Copt child being tattooed, for Christ of all things</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />The same is true of male circumcision. For the most part it is a cosmetic alteration. A circumcised penis can be a source of pride, especially when the results are as intended and aesthetically pleasing. There is nothing wrong with getting circumcised, if indeed, that's what a man wants and he fully understands the risks. A man should be free to be circumcised, as it is his body and his choice.<br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_5dgD3y2Mrgj55D336BR90d7YIf4z3iLR7RLrNyWPq4_az2xQ1E4vI9l4MNbdquWClS3gwakNcvV47lSDPPuLG0Zi7DhgBdg8bMf2FiAN7O383_CUWX0LFtckd4H-p_3jx4aDmCL8HrA/s610/jakarta+notice+the+mother.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_5dgD3y2Mrgj55D336BR90d7YIf4z3iLR7RLrNyWPq4_az2xQ1E4vI9l4MNbdquWClS3gwakNcvV47lSDPPuLG0Zi7DhgBdg8bMf2FiAN7O383_CUWX0LFtckd4H-p_3jx4aDmCL8HrA/s320/jakarta+notice+the+mother.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A boy being forcibly circumcised in Indonesia</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />The problem is when a boy or man is forced to undergo circumcision. Even when there is a medical problem that necessitates surgery (again, very rare), a man gives his consent fully understanding the implications of the procedure. A boy or man who is forcibly circumcised must live with consequences, aesthetically pleasing or otherwise, for the rest of his life, if indeed he survives the ordeal; death is one of the risks of forced male circumcision, whether performed by <a href="http://www.joseph4gi.com/2015/10/circumcision-death-child-dies-after.html">a trained professional in the hospital</a>, <a href="https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-12-03-death-toll-rises-as-eastern-cape-initiation-season-claims-more-lives/">or an amateur shaman in the African bush</a>.<br /><br /><b>Conclusion<br /></b>I end this post with my mission statement:<b><br /></b><br />
The
foreskin is not a birth defect. Neither is it a congenital
deformity or genetic anomaly akin to a 6th finger or a cleft. Neither is
it a medical condition like a ruptured appendix or diseased gall
bladder. Neither is it a dead part of the body, like the umbilical
cord, hair, or fingernails.<br />
<br />
The foreskin is not
"extra skin." The foreskin is normal, natural, healthy, functioning
tissue, with which all boys are born; it is as intrinsic to male
genitalia as labia are to female genitalia. <br />
<br />
Unless
there is a medical or clinical indication, the circumcision of a
healthy, non-consenting individual is a deliberate wound; it is the
destruction of normal, healthy tissue, the permanent disfigurement
of normal, healthy organs, and by very definition, infant genital
mutilation, and a violation of the most basic of human rights.<br /></div></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As with a tattoo, getting circumcised should be the choice of the person whose body is in question. If forcibly tattooing a person is a problem, because it violates that person’s basic human rights, then the same is true of forcibly circumcising a person.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">My body, my choice.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Getting circumcised should be a man’s choice; forcibly circumcising a boy or man takes that choice away.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Related Posts:</b></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: small;">
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</div></div>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-20468583373050858212020-11-08T12:07:00.005-08:002020-11-08T12:18:33.744-08:00Straight From Facebook: Inside the Circumcision Room<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKj6KWxCsnhPw-B5WPMM_T4sTW3FK0LYw0Ovm5gJEUp0JFAWw-uePGPmLegOOQG5d2qQlqyofyYcoVR6tz1jRBOZZfOlzI0831iH-Libvd0SrxhAuAM7Mrhn3SVNrILpv7obKaqyQs6C4/s1200/doctor+room.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKj6KWxCsnhPw-B5WPMM_T4sTW3FK0LYw0Ovm5gJEUp0JFAWw-uePGPmLegOOQG5d2qQlqyofyYcoVR6tz1jRBOZZfOlzI0831iH-Libvd0SrxhAuAM7Mrhn3SVNrILpv7obKaqyQs6C4/w400-h210/doctor+room.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>The 2020 elections were rather stressful and I'm so glad they're finally over. That said, I don't really feel like going into an elaborate post, as that takes a lot of time and thought, so I thought I'd merely copy/paste a post I saw on Facebook, which is perfect the way it is anyway, complete with demonstrative photo. I'll keep my own thoughts to a minimum.</p><p>This was posted on a profile called "Brother K."</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwNHstMO4BOBty-s75NEU0GuQYBkttholZ_RkpyW0q2RZeTrsWVFpOW7K1TT1nBbrINyOeUbL9wUk0NRpJar8nwnKO3Az7iDvoe8g8roNRH1Z3Vu3yTcsQSFg3oacjNMDulPi03ftNjgk/s958/inside+the+C+room.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="927" data-original-width="958" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwNHstMO4BOBty-s75NEU0GuQYBkttholZ_RkpyW0q2RZeTrsWVFpOW7K1TT1nBbrINyOeUbL9wUk0NRpJar8nwnKO3Az7iDvoe8g8roNRH1Z3Vu3yTcsQSFg3oacjNMDulPi03ftNjgk/s320/inside+the+C+room.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><blockquote><i>INSIDE
THE CIRCUMCISION ROOM of a large pediatric office. The circumcision
board (#1) is leaning against a defibrillator (green case #2) to restart
the baby's heart when it stops during the circumcision, and a
suctioning canister (white container with tubes #3) to suction out the
vomit when the baby pukes during the circumcision. The mom described a
large table in the center of the room with a low overhanging light to
illuminate the circumcision board during the penis surgery.<br /><br />The
mom told me, "I went to my baby's two month app and they put me in the
circumcision room. The moment I walked in and saw the board I said oh my
God you do circumcisions in here that’s terrible. She just looked at me
and said yeah we do them.<br /><br />"They even have a crash cart. I could
see the defibrillator. And that is what the [circumcision] board is
leaning against. They had this huge bed in the middle with the light
above it. The light was low. You could tell it was focused for the penis
area. It was so disturbing.<br /><br />"On the shelves they had a bunch of
equipment and labeling. Like Vaseline, and gauze things like that. I
felt so sick just being in there. I couldn’t even pay attention to the
nurse's questions. I could just feel the presence of all of the bad
shit.<br /><br />"The nurse was waiting behind me when I took the photo.
Then they took me to a smaller room. A standard size exam room. I
started crying when I told the doctor I never wanted to be in that room
again. The doctor didn’t even know the board is called a Circumstraint.
He said he called it a papoose [board]. I told him I know that it is
called a Circumstraint.<br /><br />"These people act like I’m crazy for being against this abuse."<br />_____<br />NOTE: Thanks to three American nurses who have confirmed the names and purposes of the devices in this photo. </i></blockquote><p> </p><p>Oh for the day when these superfluous rooms are eliminated from hospitals.<br /><br />We need to stop euphemising the forced severing of the foreskins from babies as "male infant circumcision" and start calling it what it is; infant male genital mutilation.<br /><br />Unless there is genuine medical indication to circumcise a healthy, non-consenting minor, and let's just be honest with ourselves, there never is, doing this to a child is purely cosmetic, plain and simple.<br /><br />In addition to violating a healthy, non-consenting person's basic human rights, it's also a needless risk; the risks of male infant circumcision include infection, partial or full ablation of the penis, hemorrhage and even death.<br /><br />Because this is cosmetic, non-medical procedure, any risk above zero is unconscionable.<br /></p><p>Without medical or clinical indication, doctors have no business performing surgery on healthy, non-consenting minors, let alone be eliciting any kind of "choice" from parents.<br /><br />That this woman was made to wait in this torture chamber out of a horror movie, no, that these rooms exist at all, is despicable.</p><p>These rooms need to be eliminated from hospitals yesterday.</p><i></i><p></p>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.com0