Mom, why did you circumcise me? Part 2 of 4

Part 3 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r7dp_B45Eg

Part 1 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jl0qL_3dUg

This excellent personal documentary in English and Dutch with English subtitles, follows Dutch journalist/filmmaker Michael Schaap as he learns from interviewing his own mother, circumcisers, politicians, Jews, Muslims, a restored British man, and some American activists.

Watch and/or embed it in one piece here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7272603373993370309

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• circumcision

[palmdalia]

circumcisio is done only because it is a source of money for doctors.

[galanoth17]

OMG this is horrifying when the blood comes out from the baby... noooooooo

[mebirdo]

If someone wants to be circumcised, age 23, that's absolutely fine

Inflicting injury to an infant or a young boy, or girl or anyone for that matter is unacceptable.

[Mystoksor]

@shhsfootballjock And something productive could be... what?

The fact is, genital mutilation is routinely performed in the developed world. there is proof that circumcision reduces sexual sensitivity, reduces pain tolerance in adults, and causes long-term brain damage. All of this for an operation that is not recommended by a single medical organization. Trying to end circumcision is a cause worth supporting. I'm sorry that your insecurity blinds you to the truth.

[matthew11174]

I'm fucking pissed, I just found out I'm circumcised. I'm not Jewish or Islamic, nor were there any medical complications, yet my parents decided to circumcise me, why would they do this to me?

[MrQuagmire26]

Well, sometimes its necessary for medical reasons. Such as phimosis, but it's no reason to "fix something that ain't broken". There are even much less invasive surgeries today that can cure this, without full circumcision. Sometimes removing only a small part is done due to medical reasons, to make the foreskin less tight. As long as someone is healthy, there is no reason to mutilate someone. I'm glad my parents never strapped me to a chair and tortured me as a child.

[endofscene]

Crazy white muslim person, foreskin does not "grow". Fingernails and hair grow back if you cut them, foreskin does not. It's a permanent amputation. Fingernails and hair do not bleed or cause pain when you cut them. Foreskin contains nerves and blood vessels. Cutting off the foreskin would be more analogous to pulling your nails out totally (a famous torture method) or pulling hair out from the roots. But even then nails and hair still grow back. You only have one foreskin.

[manwithemeraldeyes]

@CodeofVideos ask your parents. an infant cant say please dont mutilate me :( If babies could, they would.

[musicatonnetwork]

fuck this is sick look at this baby who just breathed air for the first time and now he gets to feel the worst pain in his life while doctors r standing there singing and shit when this baby is being tourterd god damn this world is so messed up

[LowLowSpinners]

@Raffzeee lol of course they feel pain.. a part of their penis is cut off! sick people who do it to kids, and i feel sorry for people who have their penis circumsized..

[jovialduke]

@CodeofVideos man you should restore, I'm starting now.

[Raffzeee]

@MartinCKennedy We shouldn't have to provide evidence that circumcision is wrong or that infants feel pain!