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#8 circumcision
by Ferre 10 months ago
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"Hygiene" is the most heard motivation for this barbaric practise to mutilate children. What's wrong with teaching them to wash themselves? Don't chop it off, just wash it!
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Hmmm. I always thought this was more religious / cultural, and sometimes medical.
yeah... same here. Though I have heard of medical medical reasons too, due to infection etc... maybe they just didn't wash ;)
It should be just a religious thing, but sadly many secular hospitals in the united states will circumsize a baby by default unless expressly told otherwise by the parents. I don't know how that got so ingrained in American society.
I think -- in American society -- it was an obsession with discouraging masturbation, as well as the belief that circumcision reduces sexuality. And the argument that it reduces infections...
But the origins are much less clear... the earliest known instances occuring in ancient Egypt.
@ md - yes, this is true. they used to think that it would stop masturbation.
Some medical researchers have found evidence of a link between a higher incidence of cervical cancer in female partners of uncircumcised men and a higher incidence of penile human papillomavirus (HPV) in uncircumcised men. [62] [63] [52]
http://en.wikipedia...._circumcision
@ Friar - that goes against the couseling of the AAP "there was insufficient data to recommend routine neonatal circumcision, and recommended that parental decisions on circumcision should be made with as much accurate and unbiased information as possible, taking medical, cultural, ethnic, traditional, and religious factors into account. The AAP also recommended using analgesia as a safe and effective method for reducing pain associated with circumcision, and that circumcision on newborns only be performed on infants who are stable and healthy.[1]
The American Medical Association (1999) noted that medical associations in the US, Australia, and Canada did not recommend routine circumcision of newborns. It supported the general principles of the 1999 Circumcision Policy Statement of the American Academy of Pediatrics[2]"
http://en.wikipedia...._circumcision
Parents must ask for the procedure and sign all necessary paperwork. The hospital needs to be able to bill the insurance, you know ... like they do.
@awkwardly -- thanks for the good info. Cutting edge, in fact.
Thanks awkwardly, I guess my data was a little antiquated.
as always,
(@ md - you funny thing you!)