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Today is my 60th circ-aversary. For some reason, my mom carried 3-week-old me back to the pediatrician's office and had him cut off a healthy normal part of my penis. That amputated skin would have grown to 15 square inches of exquisite pleasure receptive sexual interface.
If I could time-travel and intervene, I would grab that (now dead) doctor's scalpel and ram it into his eye right through to the back of his brain if necessary to defend helpless infant me from sexual mutilation.
Let me be clear. He knew what he was doing and did an excellent job. But there's no right way to do a wrong thing. EVERY circumcision removes the most nerve-rich part of the penis, eliminates the frictionless slinking and gliding mode of stimulation, and leaves the glans exposed so it will dry and desensitize year by year.
And about half the time, infant circumcision also has unintended negative effects, like skin bridging, stitch tunnels, excessive tightness, jagged irregular scars, pits and gouges to the glans, coarse hair growing high on the shaft, etc. And partial glans amputation, life-threatening infections, severe blood loss, and even death of an otherwise healthy baby are not unheard of. See http://circumcisionharm.org/gallery1.htm
That we STILL fail to protect infants from this mayhem is what really hurts. Society is saying what happened to me was fine.
End all forced non-therapeutic genital cutting. Informed male, female, and intersex adults can decide for themselves if any of their own parts are extra or need modification.
If I could time-travel and intervene, I would grab that (now dead) doctor's scalpel and ram it into his eye right through to the back of his brain if necessary to defend helpless infant me from sexual mutilation.
Let me be clear. He knew what he was doing and did an excellent job. But there's no right way to do a wrong thing. EVERY circumcision removes the most nerve-rich part of the penis, eliminates the frictionless slinking and gliding mode of stimulation, and leaves the glans exposed so it will dry and desensitize year by year.
And about half the time, infant circumcision also has unintended negative effects, like skin bridging, stitch tunnels, excessive tightness, jagged irregular scars, pits and gouges to the glans, coarse hair growing high on the shaft, etc. And partial glans amputation, life-threatening infections, severe blood loss, and even death of an otherwise healthy baby are not unheard of. See http://circumcisionharm.org/gallery1.htm
That we STILL fail to protect infants from this mayhem is what really hurts. Society is saying what happened to me was fine.
End all forced non-therapeutic genital cutting. Informed male, female, and intersex adults can decide for themselves if any of their own parts are extra or need modification.
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