Exactly, Bull_13.
darkbond007, circumcision is dangerous when carried out in the bush. But, isn't that what the latest African studies, and Bill Gates' money, are pushing towards?
The AMA's point, and the AAP's point, is that even in clean American hospitals, circumcision is more dangerous than having a foreskin. There are staph, strep, and MRSA infections that happen all the time. I live in the medical capital of the US, Boston, where there are the best doctors and the latest technology. These hospitals are connected to Harvard, MIT, etc.
Yet...
Infection control problems cited at Beth Israel - The Boston Globe
It isn't always Africa, or the back woods, where problems with circumcision surface.
Death from Circumcision - Ryleigh McWillis
Deaths from Circumcision
Fulton County jury awards $2.3 million in case of botched circumcision
Boy Gets Botched Circumcision, Raised As A Girl, Commits Suicide - Xbox 360 & Xbox Forums
We don't like to think about it, it's true, but things go wrong. Men end up with skin bridges, meatal stenosis, hidden penis, painful erections because too much skin was removed, and a whole host of other problems. Are they rare? Meatal stenosis certainly is not. What man wants to tell his buddies or his girl that his circumcision caused him damage? Very few, I would wager. The doctors know of more problems, but again, they are not talking. They could get sued, or lose a lucrative business, estimated at $300 million a year.
Africans say that their studies show circumcision is raising the HIV rate, not lowering it.
Africa Science News Service | Reporting about African Science with an African eye - Adoption of male circumcision to fight HIV dangerous and unethical
These American babies in the best hospitals are exposed to potentially fatal infections.
What does a successful circumcision do, anyway?
It turns an internal part into an external one.
It turns a moist part into a dry one.
It takes a penis with a moving part, and makes it into one without moving parts.
It removes 20,000 nerves, all of them designed by natural selection, to send a shiver up and down your spine.
And for what gain?
To not have to use a washcloth?
A false promise of protection against disease?
Oh wait, cancer of the penis. No, that one is wrong, studies have shown that circumcised guys get cancer of the penis, too, in fact about 37% of men with penile cancer were circumcised at birth.
All the other people with beliefs like ours...the English, the Canadians, the Australians, New Zealanders, Californians, have all slowed circumcisions down to a trickle. They have done their research, and found that the money could be better spent elsewhere, actually fighting disease. If circumcision protects at all, it does not protect much. If you still have to use a condom to be safe, why get rid of any of your parts?
Again, to the people who are sick of reading about it...why are you hear reading about it?
You hate it, your minds are cast in concrete and are not going to change. Why bitch about it? Why not do something more constructive? If it bothers you, stop.
I am here, because I wish people would examine the evidence more closely, and not just circumcise because everybody is doing it. Does it really benefit anybody?
Though it is legal, does anyone really have the right to carve their opinion in somebody else's flesh, no matter how well meaning? I did it. I was told it needed to be done. I was wrong. I was given bad information. There is no shortage of bad information. If having a foreskin was unhealthy or disgusting, you would bet we would be hearing about it loudly and clearly, from all the women in Europe, South America, Asia, etc, and plenty of the men, too. What do we hear? You Americans have an obsession. And this, coming from respected European doctors, not from foreskin fetishists.
BBC NEWS | Health | Call for higher circumcision rate
Dr Colm O'Mahony, a sexual health expert from the Countess of Chester Foundation Trust Hospital in Chester, said the US had an "obsession" with circumcision being the answer to controlling sexually transmitted infections.
He said: "Sure, a dry skinned penis is a bit less likely to contract HIV, herpes and possibly genital warts but it will get infected eventually."
