a mothers story

A mothers story



Wednesday, November 21, 2007

The fact that infant circumcision is still allowed in this country makes my skin crawl. Can you think of any other surgery performed on a newborn baby that has been proven not only medically unnecessary, but also detrimental to a persons health that is still allowed?

Not only is circumcision medically harmful (the foreskin protects the penis, keeps it moist which allows for better sensitivity, and as an infant protects it from urine, feces and injury) but it is also completely a human rights issue.

Who says we get to choose which body part our child gets to keep? Scientific studies have already shown that circumcision is unnecessary. So basically, we're left with the fact that we're doing it because our parents did it. We're doing it because we want our sons to look like their dads. What kind of insane reasoning is that? Something is harmful to our child. It hurts them. It mames them. It causes them unnecessary trauma and suffering, not only in the moment of the act, but for the rest of their life whether they realize it or not. But yet still, he must look like his dad, incomplete.

And this is the saddest part. Men have to deal with this. Sometimes, men never think about it. They just continue on with their lives, never understanding the implications it has had on them. But a lot of the time, men do think about it. And it hurts them. And they feel cheated.

I'm tired of hearing how sexist of a society we live in without any mention of the barbaric torture we're putting our baby boys through.

The crap that girls get done to them is hideous enough, but this is right up there with it.

We are permanently disfiguring a persons body solely for aesthetic purposes.

The prepuce (or foreskin) has thousands of nerve endings in it. Removing it means that we are permanently altering the way that person will register the touch of his lover, the touch of himself, the way he views sex and it's pleasure, or lack of.

I'm sorry, but I have to get a bit personal here. When I was a teenager, all my boyfriends were circumcised, except one. The one who wasn't had to constantly remind me to, "be gentle" and "softer". I was used to having to be rather "vigorous" by comparison with the boyfriends who were circumcised. So when it came to the uncircumcised one, I was really perplexed. I thought it was really weird how soft he wanted me to be with him. I was amazed at the lack of movement and action it require to accomplish the "desired outcome" of our "interactions".

As an adult and after much study on the subject I finally got it. HE COULD FEEL.

A lot of men don't think consciously about what has been taken from them. But a lot do.

And we simply don't have the right to decide who gets to keep their genitals in tact and who doesn't.