Posted on 05/25/2011 2:44:49 AM PDT by Rudder
It's a personal story, but let it also serve as a public health rebuttal to the proposed ban on male circumcision that will be on the San Francisco ballot this November.
San Francisco's ballot initiative would prohibit circumcision on all males under the age of 18. It would allow no religious exemptions, and it apparently gives no regard to the numerous studies demonstrating that male circumcision can substantially reduce—by more than 50%—the transmission of the HIV virus during sex.
"Communities, and especially women, may benefit much more from circumcision interventions than had previously been predicted, and these results provide an even greater imperative to increase scale-up of safe male circumcision services," concludes a study published this year in the peer-reviewed journal Sexually Transmitted Infections.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see you through.
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/103/3/686
http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/williams-kapila/
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/abstract/131/11/1353..
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1794670
http://mdm.sagepub.com/content/11/4/282
We are truly a country of stupid rules and control. Circumcision should be a parental option or a religious one period. On a side note, when Mom was a nurse, she remembered on young boy of 19 who had it done. From my understanding, he felt “different” being an athlete and looking “different”. As an adult, the procedure is painful. It is also far more complicated than what newborns go through.
“. . . and couldn’t find anything on dangers of circumcision. “
You couldn’t find *anything*??????
http://www.mensstudies.com/errors/500.mpx?errorid=d3ba4f76-daa3-414e-aa1d-2245135f37ea
100 infants die per year due to complications from circumcision. I was involved with a case in Dallas where an infant had his whole penis cut off and had to have a sex change operation. My friend’s son had to be hospitalized because of an infection due to an “aggressive” circumcision.
. . . but you couldn’t come up with a thing.
BTW, I’m opposed to the law. If parents want to pay extra to have their infants mutilated, it’s their business.
Why would the child need a sex change operation? That is the strangest thing I have ever heard. Couldn’t something be done cosmetically? Having his penis removed didn’t make him a girl.
I have no idea why they did it. I don’t think any male got picked for the jury. I wouldn’t want to have been that kid or his parents for any amount of money and the guys and most of the women wanted this doctor hung by his penis until dead before hearing anything about the case.
If it ain’t broke . . .
Sounds like some guys might have have lost their head in the process.
You said you were involved in the case. You said the baby HAD to have a sex change operation. Why did the baby HAVE to have a sex change? Couldn’t the penis have been reattached?
Are you know saying the parents opted to have the sex change operation?
No. The doctor used a laser and it couldn’t be reattached. The whole thing was removed with the laser. I don’t even know how the doctor managed to cut the whole thing off. My involvement was very brief (less than one day), but long enough to learn the background. I wasn’t selected for the jury.
Oh you were involved in the court case not the medical side. I understand. Thanks for clarification. It looks like they could still have done something cosmetic since cosmetically they can give a sex change operation to a female. Instead they decided to remove the rest of his male organs, create female organs and put the poor child on hormones? Not to mention going back to family and friends and saying oh yeah we really have a daughter instead of a son. That is strange indeed!
>>In Africa, unlike in the US, heterosexual AIDS is a huge problem.<<
Demand that men wash before and after engaging in sex. If women would refuse to permit anal/vaginal sex, most of these diseases would disappear on their own. Inserting fecal bacteria deep into your vagina is not be something I would consider to be healthy if I was a woman.
And if your dad had prostate cancer he would likely have been castrated as well as circumcised. Not my idea of a day at the beach, but he’d get a bulk rate discount on the surgery bill.
Check out the link, it will answer your questions, and
Google Dr. John Money as well, for more information.
I made it very clear that I looked in Pubmed, *the* medical research database in use today. Every scholarly article published within the realm of medical research is catalogued there. Plus, I specified the keywords I used to search. If you can provide specific keywords to use in Pubmed, which will return the kind of article that will support your claim, please do so.
I’m not sure exactly how to classify the website you linked—sociology, maybe—but it does *not* appear to be a medical research database.
Female circucision also?
Is this the case you were involved with? That is truly sad!
Really? What kind of question is that? Whether you agree with the practice or not, male circumcision has health benefits and does not deprive men of the desire or enjoyment of sex. Female circumcision does not have health benefits and is done purely to keep girls chaste. It ruins any enjoyment they have for sex and is barbaric.
Yes, one of many. It is a very sad case, indeed.
“Female circumcision also?”
Female circumcision prevents sexual pleasure in a female. Male circumcision does not. It is done for cleanliness, health reasons and religious reasons.
Female circumcision also?
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