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Avoid Circumcision, Benifits of the Foreskin

'an article in the January 1999 British Journal of Urology reported that women who had slept with both circumcised and intact men preferred sex with men who were not circumcised. The article reported that the women achieved orgasm faster, and were more likely to achieve multiple orgasms.' - Michael S. Kimmel, TIKKUN, Volume 16, Number 3, May/June 2001.
 
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THE LEDGER, Lakeland, Florida, Sunday, July 8, 2007
http://www.cirp.org/news/theledger2007-07-08/

Published Sunday, July 8, 2007
CUTTING THE PROCEDURE
In Last Four Decades, Circumcision Has Lost Popularity in United States
By GARRY WHITE The Ledger

Amanda Mann doesn't claim to be a perfect mother. Like any other parent, she has her momentary lapses, including the occasional loss of her temper, which are understandable for the mother of four boys.

Mann doesn't castigate herself for such episodes. But one moment from her first days as a parent does cause her continuing remorse.

'The circumcision of my first son is the only thing I regret as a parent,' said Mann, a Bartow resident.

Mann represents a growing segment of the American populace, parents who have turned against the previously routine practice of having their sons circumcised in their first days of life. Circumcision rates in the United States have declined from a high of nearly 90 percent in the early 1960s to about 57 percent in 2004, according to the National Health and Social Life Survey. The recently issued report found rates below 50 percent in some states.

Health experts say immigration from Latin American and Asian countries, where circumcision is not a cultural custom, has contributed to the decline. But the statistics suggest a rise in the number of white, native-born parents, like Mann and her husband, Curtis Romey, who have decided to go against the norm.

Circumcision - the surgical removal of the foreskin from the penis - has ancient origins.

Some historians say circumcision gained wide acceptance because it was believed that removal of the sensitive foreskin would make boys less likely to masturbate or pursue sex. The practice, long shunned by Christians, became prevalent among Western countries in the early 20th century and was routine in American hospitals by the 1950s.

'When I changed his diaper the first time and saw the wound he'd been given, it made me horribly regretful and I couldn't believe I'd allowed something so mutilating to happen to one of my children, which I'd been given to protect,' Mann said. 'At that point, it became clear to me with any future son there was not a chance it would happen.'

Mann, a childbirth educator at Labor of Love, a natural birthing center in Lakeland, said Zain seemed to be in pain for more than a week after the circumcision and had difficulty nursing and sleeping as a result.

Mann said she went to almost comical extremes after the birth of Asher, her second son.

'I was worried about him being accidentally circumcised, so I was maybe a little overvigilant,' she said. 'Anyone who walked in the room, I was making sure (they knew) he's not going to be circumcised, even if they were delivering a newspaper.'

Nancy Moses, a friend of Mann's, arrived at the same outlook while pregnant with her first child, who turned out to be a girl. Four years later, Moses gave birth to a son, John, who is now 2 and, as Moses proudly states, not circumcised.

'I think I always knew that I found circumcision odd, creepy and cruel, even,' said Moses, 31. 'But it wasn't until I was pregnant that I knew how horrible it would be if someone hurt my baby. And imagine if I was the one to allow that.'

Moses, 31, a stay-at-home mom, said her husband, Rob, was at first inclined toward circumcision, 'but as soon as he learned about how it happens and how pointless it is, he was protective of our son's foreskin.'

Ray said the most influential factor, aside from cultural and family traditions, is insurance coverage. In 2003, Florida joined more than a dozen other states in dropping circumcision from the list of procedures covered under Medicaid, the program for low-income families. Ray said he noticed fewer requests for the surgery after the change in coverage, though some parents choose circumcision even if they have to pay for it themselves.

Parents such as Mann and Moses quail at the notion of having elective surgery performed on a newborn boy. Mann equates circumcision with breast augmentation, and Moses calls it 'optional cosmetic surgery.'

Opponents of circumcision say the procedure is doubly harmful, inflicting pain at the time of surgery and reducing sexual pleasure later through the removal of the nerve-rich foreskin.

Mann and Moses would rather err on the side of caution. The two mothers also question the validity of studies finding lower rates of HIV among circumcised men, and they say foreskin hygiene is no more of a challenge than keeping ears or noses clean.

Mann, whose sons clustered affectionately around her at the family's Bartow home on a recent morning, said she's unconcerned that Asher, Atticus or Ivan might feel self-conscious or face ridicule for having a different penis from other boys.

'The locker-room argument never really held a lot water with me,' Mann said. 'I kind of liken it to, well, if I had a daughter who wasn't chesty would I consider breast augmentation for her? And the answer to that is absolutely, unequivocally not.'

Mann and Moses use such words as 'amputation' and 'mutilation' in describing circumcision, they don't align themselves with militant 'intactivists' who would like to see the procedure banned.

Mann said she hopes more and more parents will arrive at the same choice she did.

'I'm proud to have three more intact boys in the world,' she said.
 
Homeopathy International 1 last decade
'An Israeli research project in the early-1990s sought to measure changes in sexual satisfaction after circumcision among Russian immigrants who got themselves circumcised after immigration to Israel. The research was carried out by Dr Avi Teper and Dr Eliezer Shalev, from the Women's Department, Ha-emek Hospital, Afula. They mailed a questionnaire to 108 males, 76 of whom replied.
The circumcised immigrants reported a significant decrease in sexual satisfaction. Before circumcision 54 per cent reported 'great sexual satisfaction', but afterwards the number was only 24 per cent. The proportion of those reporting 'medium satisfaction' rose from 30 percent to 61 percent. There was no change in the number reporting 'small satisfaction'.'
Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin and R. Blustein, 'Challenges to circumcision in Israel: The Israeli association against genital mutilation', in George C. Denniston, Frederick Mansfield Hodges and Marilyn Fayre Milos (eds) Male and female circumcision: Medical, legal and ethical considerations in pediatric practice, New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999, pp. 343-50'
http://www.circinfo.org/quote.html


Circumcision is a Violation of Human Rights
'What about religion? For boys and girls alike, under basic human rights principles, anothers right to practice a religion must end where that individuals body begins. Otherwise, individual protections carry little meaning. Many Jews and Muslims are involved with organizations working to stop male circumcision, and many are questioning whether removal of healthy tissue from the bodies of their children is required by or even consistent with their faith. When the child is of the age of consent, he or she can make up his or her own mind about his or her own body.' - Steven Svoboda, J.D., 'In Search of Fatherhood' Magazine Interview
http://www.arclaw.org/arc_activities/fatherhood-interview.ph....


Medical Research Warns Against Circumcision
'Circumcision harms the developing brain: Recent studies published in leading medical journals have reported that circumcision has long-lasting detrimental effects on the developing brain, adversely altering the brain's perception centers. Circumcised boys have a lower pain threshold than girls or intact boys. Developmental neuropsychologist Dr. James Prescott suggests that circumcision can cause deeper and more disturbing levels of neurological damage, as well.'
- Paul M. Fleiss, MD., MPH., Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Southern California Medical Center.
http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org/fleiss.html


Midwwife Advises Against Circumcision
'Nancy Wainer is one such mother. When her son was born 34 years ago, Wainer and her husband had him ritually circumcised. She has regretted it ever since. 'I can still hear his cries,' she said. 'He cried for hours. He was inconsolable.' Now, as a midwife in Massachusetts, Wainer advises mothers to leave their sons' foreskins intact.' - Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh - May 24, 2007


Published in YNET JEWISH WORLD, 2008
But the new parents insist: Yes to a party, but no to a brit....the decision to give it a pass is becoming increasingly trendy in Israel.

'I've managed to stand up to the religious, overbearing establishment,' is an old, familiar motto. Only this time, instead of getting married in Cyprus or holding a non-religious funeral at a kibbutz, we've decided to keep the boy in one piece, without performing 'barbaric' incisions in his body. What's wrong with that? We have here caring, well-informed parents who are unwilling to swallow every nonsensical argument that an over-zealous circumciser tries to shove down their throat at the neonatal ward.

And even I, a mitzvah observing person, don't have a problem with the ever-rising number of uncircumcised Israelis.
- Tali Farkash. It just doesn't cut it. YNET Jewish World, Friday, December 19, 2008.
 
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