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[afsjesse]

While i don't doubt the child feels pain when the circumcision takes place, I have to ask how many of us men remember the pain that may have been afflicted?
Not trying to use the loss of memory as an excuse, but I think thats the logical answer. This is a ritual, religous or not that has been performed for thousands of years and now scientific evidence finds it may be hygenically better to get it done.
If its needed or not i'll leave to the scientists and religious buffs.

[shifty]

I've gotta ask man, are you a parent? /quote]

Captain Cor, you strike me as a ravin' queen, no ways a parent.

[bogey666]

[Cedar]

no, because uncut really is better for the woman... but my husband would probably insist his son be circumcised.

[Captain Corea]

[shifty]

Be more temperate in yr posts and you won't get insulted. And a teaspoonful is not a swig, typical of yr mouthing off hysteria..

[Draz]

[bacasper]

Routine infant circumcision is a medically unnecessary, barbaric procedure performed upon helpless, non-consenting males without the benefit of anesthesia. Any medical benefits have been debunked, and the pretext of hygiene is absolutely ludicrous as the same can be achieved by routine washing with soap and water.

I find it ironically ludicrous that if a stranger were to caress an infant boy's member, he would be branded a child molester and sentenced to a long prison term, yet if another took a knife to it and cut off perfectly healthy tissue, not only does he not suffer for it, but he actually gets paid to do it!

The United States is the only major Western country which continues to routinely genitally mutilate its newborn males, although the proportion has decreased signficantly in recent decades to around 55% now. It is expected to decrease further as insurance companies increasingly drop coverage for this unindicated medical procedure.

Most major pediatric associations do not recommend it:

American Academy Of Pediatrics Releases New Circumcision Policy
Science Daily (Mar. 2, 1999) � CHAPEL HILL - After analysis of almost 40 years of medical research on circumcision, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued new recommendations today (March 1) stating that the benefits are not significant enough for the AAP to recommend circumcision as a routine procedure. The new policy statement is being published in this month's issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the AAP.

RECOMMENDATION: Circumcision of newborns should not be routinely performed. VALIDATION: This recommendation is in keeping with previous statements on neonatal circumcision by the Canadian Paediatric Society and the American Academy of Pediatrics. The statement was reviewed by the Infectious Disease Committee of the Canadian Paediatric Society. The Board of Directors of the Canadian Paediatric Society has reviewed its content and approved it for publication.

While there are few medical indications for it, (and I am in favor of it when medically indicated, such as in cases of phimosis), there are many reasons against it. It can lead to direct complications, from bleeding, infection, all the way to penectomy (The "boy raised as a girl," as seen on Oprah, had his *beep* completely amputated after a botched circumcision, and his is not the only case), and even death.

Is circumcision painful?

Yes. Circumcision is extremely painful - and traumatic - for a baby. Just being strapped down is frightening for a baby. The often repeated statement that babies can't feel pain is not true. Babies are as sensitive to pain as anyone else. Most babies scream frantically when their foreskin is cut off. Some defecate. Some lapse into a coma. The reason some babies don't cry when they are circumcised, is that they can't cry because they are in a state of shock. Most babies are circumcised without anesthesia. Anesthetics injected into the *beep* don't always work. Being stuck with a needle in the *beep* is itself painful for a baby, just as if would be for anyone else. Babies are rarely given pain medicatiion right after they are circumcised or during the week to ten days it takes for the wound to heal. Pain medication is not always effective and is never 100% effective.

How is Circumcision Done?

[sharkey]