Is circumcision the kiss of death or source of life?

Toward Tradition ^ | 2/21/2005 | Samuel Silver

[intacto]

Does the military require that all servicemen be circumsized?

No, the military does not require servicemen be circumcised.

[intacto]

Too bad you did not give your son the advantages of circumcision, many of which are only beneficial if he is circumcised shortly after birth. So sad!

No professional medical organization in the world agrees with your extreme pro-circumcision point of view. Every professional medical organization that has an official policy on circumcision says that infant circumcision is unnecessary. In other words there is no medical indication for circumcising baby boys.

"Infant male circumcision was once considered a preventive health measure and was therefore adopted extensively in Western countries. Current understanding of the benefits, risks and potential harm of this procedure, however, no longer supports this practice for prophylactic health benefit. Routine infant male circumcision performed on a healthy infant is now considered a non-therapeutic and medically unnecessary intervention." -- College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia. Infant Male Circumcision. Jun 2004.

[boingo82]

"Back from the aside, the question is how much of that panic is from the pain of circumcision and how much from being physically restrained by a device?"

And how much of his panic at being restrained the second time, was due to a subconscious memory of what happened the 1st time he was restrained in such a manner?

[Babwa]

The original kink for this essay on circumcision is gone. This is a current link http://www.aegis.com/default.asp?req=http://www.aegis.com/NEWS/misc/2005/TT050201.html