Australian Infant Foreskin Amputation

[juliuschas]

I was cut (1952) but my son (1990) wasn't. Nuff said!

[MrKodiak1000]

Circumcision should be illegal and not up to the parent. People consult the bible regarding circumcision... and this is the penalty.

[alnot01]

Cutting too much off can make erection uncomfortable. Otherwise no problem.

Circ removes the ridged band, a major player in penetrative pleasure. A possible consequence of infant circ is the slow death of sexual sensation after age 40. Being intact, I do not have this problem, but a few men have told me it has happened to them.

Australian medicine recognises that circ can impair sexual pleasure. USA medicine does not.

[alnot01]

I salute the Australasian common sense pervading this video, a common sense that simply eludes Americans obsessed with the helmet look.

Circ removes the most sensitive parts of the male body, reducing male pleasure for sure and female pleasure often. It reduces foreplay options and detracts from lubrication. It facilitates jackrabbit intercourse, and exacerbates vaginal dryness. A few circs are major sexual disasters.

[BillyDTeacher]

Hi: The boy they talked to in the video had to be at least nine or ten I guess. I was wondering how he could recall what happen to him as an infant. Did he have a later circumcision? I am not at all saying babies don't feel pain I just don't think a boy could recall it unless like I said he had one later in l childhood. Thanks for any answers any of you have

[alnot01]

@BillyDTeacher : The interviewed boy was circumcised around age 4 or 5, hence he remembered it.

[BillyDTeacher]

@alnot01

Thanks for the information why do they do it so late?

Also do they put the kids to sleep before doing it?

Thanks

[alnot01]

@BillyDTeacher : In Australia, New Zealand, and France, general anesthesia has to be used after the 1st birthday. The boy was not complaining of operative pain, but post-op pain.

A few boys spared the snip at birth get it done later in childhood or even the teen years, for real or imagined problems. Around 2000, the UK medical association discovered that 4% of UK boys were getting snipped in childhood. They set a goal of reducing that 2%.

[lexichronicle2]

@alnot01 Someone in the UK is suing the doctor who circumcised him with the argument being that it was needless and irreversible surgical alteration without consent. I'm 100% behind him.

Circumcision of infants should be entirely illegal. If they want it done when they're older fine. Imagine cutting a toe off a child. How long is that argument going to last in court? You'll be straight off to the fruit cake farm.

Watch some videos of it being done. It's fking horrendous!

[alnot01]

@lexichronicle2 : the problem with making your wishes come true is the existence of Judaism and Islam. But the Koran is silent about circ. Islamic traditions emerged in a place and time where soap and water were not an option. Most Jews are not Biblical literalists. Both religions could put ritual circ behind them. When they do, circ will die in the West.

[endorphinjunky]

Thank you so much for posting this clip. I would have liked to have seen more emphasis on what is lost for tha adult than on the pain for the infant - although both are absolutely abhorrent. I missed this when it aired. I wish I could see the whole thing. I am passionate about the issue of childhood genital mutilation.

[HuckMeHard]

I have my foreskin!

I'm a 100% man.

[EnoFrisk]

The difference between circumcision on an infant and circumcision on an adult is consent. The question that needs to be answered before proceeding with any non necessary surgery is who has the right to consent?

Circumcision on an adult without consent is an assault, Circumcision on an infant or child is ethically wrong, they cannot consent and they do not consent.

[lala77uk]

i dont belive babys should be done BUT if you need it later in life it is fine

[wrangler1974]

"Leave the penis alone." - Dr. George Williams

Thanks doctor, it couldn't be said better.

[KonyLeah]

Hear! Hear!

[alnot01]

@wrangler1974 : Williams has paid a price for his common sense. When Williams argued that clinical trials conducted in Africa do not shed light on whether Australian baby boys should be cut, he was called racist and Brian Morris chimed in.