TheDoctorsTV on Circumcision - a critique

Today's parents say no to circumcision, but you wouldn't necessarily know it from watching this trite show executive-produced by Dr. Phil. They manage to trivialize and mislead on a myriad of topics including circumcision.

I theorize that when their show promoting infant circumcision last fall was greeted with outraged posts to their forum (http://TheDoctorsTV.com), they did a tiny bit of research and decided to take up the topic again with a slight amount of sympathy for intact men. In the recent footage at the beginning of this video they are suddenly aware that non-surgical foreskin restoration exists, and that MAYBE the infant's right to choose is relevant to the discussion. Then keep listening to the second half to hear what they had to say last fall.

They may have given it a bit of thought, but no more than a bit. The ridiculousness of what they say is obvious if you imagine every reference to male and female reversed. Mutilated genitals LOOK better?

95% of the world's non-Muslim familes do not circumcise. Every mammal evolved a foreskin before there was surgery or soap, and nature has been perfecting foreskins ever since, for 65 million years. No other mammal seems to "need" this corrective surgery at birth. Would you be locked up for inviting friends to witness the circumcision of your new puppy?

No national medical association of doctors anywhere on earth endorses routine circumcision for any medical reason.

Foreskin feels REALLY good. HIS body HIS decision.

End circumcision: http://NoCirc.org
Circumcision mythology rebutted: http://Circumstitions.com
Restore your foreskin: http://TLCTugger.com

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• foreskin
• restoration
• genital
• mutilation
• baby
• penis
• sexual
• pleasure

[JukemDrawles89]

nothing weird or yuk about being un-cut its how every guy should be , and if a girl starts bleating about it tell her to take a hike and get a proper education, a natural penis does need a wash the same as your butt or any other part of your body but the benefits are many , better protection of your sensitive penis head during daily life , sport, running ,cycling etc are all more comfortable due to the natural protection of having a foreskin

[xxblodlustxx]

Are these people even real doctors?? I doubt it. They just play doctors on tv. I wouldn't trust half of what these people have to say.

[neechee5150]

I wonder how the AMA and the AAP reacted to this episode as a good deal of the comments from these doctors are not in harmony with the AMA and AAP's policy on infant circumcision. I noticed that Dr. Masters was not so bold and outspoken and pro circumcision when she was interviewed by a late night talk show host.

[neechee5150]

@jshowa7 Which specific RCT's in sub-saharan Africa are you referring to? Have you read the actual studies? Have you read the scathing criticism of those "studies" who happen to be PhD's and MD's from around the world?

If those researchers were so confident about their claims of reduction in HIV transmission, they would run those studies in the US, Canada and England, but these circum zealot scientists afraid to do this. Their methodological flaws would be exposed.

[Brilliantatheist]

Dr. Lisa needs to get her foreskin cut off without anesthetic, then I will listen. Untill then, she is nothing more than a hypocritical and sexist bigot!

[johann1979]

And where in your life have you heard anything as inappropriate as to create a false sense of security in that being cut can somehow be safer when it comes to the transmission of HIV? Sure statistically your chance may be lower of contracting HIV, but as it does not offer you protection, it is wholly irresponsible to pretend it is safer! So you have a young male who read being having unprotected sex and being cut was safer. He has no condoms so he indulges in risky behaviour, something he might

[johann1979]

Thank fuck I come from a part of the world where the vast majority of men are uncut, that includes myself. This is simply a debate that is not held here in Europe. Like the death penalty and unequality for gays and lesbians, male circumcision is one of those religious relics still practiced by an über conservative US that just do not want to fall in with the rest of the advancing world.

[CutDicksRSmallNUgly]

@jshowa7 Condoms protect against STD's and UTIs are more common in mutilated infants. You are way too influenced by this money making vicious cycle propaganda. Your women aren't mutilated and if I told you you should to protect from disease you would laugh in my face. Wake up and educate yourself properly. Are you going to go and be castrated to avoid testicular cancer!?

[roder59]

@jshowa7 :"please don't contact me ever again"

Your arrogance is just rampant: we make use of US First Amendment if you don´t mind, saying our minds and fighting baloney wherever it´s a possible danger to human integrity and basic human rights.

We don´t contact you,you are trying to ram in your egocentric MGM dogma from a abused´s perspective into us:"I´m just fine,good sex,no sensitivity loss, maybe I´m lucky, it´s basicly not the infants´ human rights rather the parents´, anti-circ idiots.