circumcision

BBC News: Mum opened nappy to find son had been circumcised "A mother has described the distress of discovering her baby son had been circumcised without her consent. The woman, from Nottingham, said she opened her son's nappy to find him covered in blood - and was so distraught she had to...

Slate.

Link The ombudsmen concluded that: "Circumcision without a medical indication on a person unable to provide informed consent conflicts with basic principles of medical ethics." They found the procedure "to be in conflict with the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, articles 12, and 24 (3)...

Apparently the Rabbi was performing an old ritual after circumcision called metzitzah b'peh which involves applying suction to the fresh wound with the mouth. The baby got Herpes and died. His Holy Book says he has to do the metzitzah b'peh but there is debate about the definition of the...

Recently there has been talk about the harmful effects of circumcision on sexual health. Some men who have been severely affected by circumcision have even considered nonsurgical restoration to grow back their foreskins. Edited for Rule 4 and Rule 6.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/ushealthjewsreligioncircumcision very very interesting topic. first of all, I think comparing circumcising 8-day old males to genital mutilation of teenage girls in Africa, is petty week. #1. genital mutilation of girls in Africa is to prevent them from enjoying...

What are your thoughts on cirumcision of infants? Most people seem to agree that femaly circumcision/gential mutilation is a bad practice, but many are still fine with male circumcision of infants. I suppose it might not be as horrific with males, but the reasons for it are more or less the...

After the post war period and the surge of Jewish pediatricians and influence on the medical board, as a way to assimilate into society they pushed the cause for routine circumcision. Potentially kids were getting harassed at middle school gym showers and going home crying to Dr. Daddy so they...

Linky. Linky. Linky. Linky God damn. (Begin MGM derail)

This is the first time I have seen a bush circumcision that went wrong reported in the media. http://www.news.com.au/national/teen-boys-in-hospital-after-botched-circumcision/story-e6frfkvr-1225817889024

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27911541/?gt1=43001 Do any of you read the Lancet regularly? I didn't find a quick link, and don't subscribe. The cost cited was about 3.4 billion a year. For ten years. If a globally resourced initiative were undertaken, my guess is that level of funding might...

The issue of presenting misleading and inaccurate information in order to support a particular viewpoint was raised on another thread about circumcision. I specifically referred to circumstitions.com as one of these sites, which prompted a response from someone who seems to have some...

Earlier this week my wife and I found out that we are going to have a boy this October. As we shared the good news, we unknowingly ran smack dab into a debate with very passionate advocates on either side: Were we going to circumcise our son? My wife and I had half-discussed it in the past...

After finally getting hold of the complete 4 seasons of Penn & Teller Bullsh*t (not so easy in UK has its not offically released over here) I've been steadily wading my way through. Imagine my surprise when I came to the Circumcision episode - I thought I already new all about this ghastly...

This man's name is perfect for this interesting story. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/health/4575453.html

Reuters Not entirely sure what I think about this yet.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/muslim-scholars-rule-female-circumcision-unislamic/2006/11/24/1163871589618.html Not a moment to soon, either. It is a barbaric practice that is not justifiable in any form. The main problem is that it appears to me to be a cultural practice that predates...

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/thrive/2006/feb/02/020206089.html I knew that some of the Hasidic religious practices were archaic, but this just left me speechless.

I consider circumcision (both male and female) to be abhorrent and barbaric. Can any rational thinker consider it otherwise ?

See MSNBC article here "The study was conducted on more than 3,000 HIV-negative South African men, ages 18 to 24. Half of the men were randomly selected to be circumcised while the other half remained uncircumcised. After following the men for a year, the researchers found that for every 10...

The new season of "Bull****!" has started. As Penn announced at TAM3, circumcision would be a topic, and it was the subject of the first show. This was a difficult show to watch, because it was very graphic, and the discussion was very frank. The boys tried to lighten up the mood a little...

The circumcision thread prompted this poll of mine. I'm circumcised and I don't care. Since I've never experienced sex with a foreskin I can't comment on the difference but I know two guys that were circumcised as adults and they both claim it made no difference as it regarded the act itself...

There was a great programme on BBC1 television this week about coming of age in different societies that featured an African boy preparing for his entry into manhood including having his private parts abbreviated. Why do so many traditional cultures and religions want to harvest foreskins...

Of course we all know about orthodox jewish ritual circumcision practices but up to now many did did not know that the special rabbi who performs the procedure drinks the infants blood directly...I will skip the details but refer you to the following article. There are more on Google news if...

When I first saw this picture of an injured child I thought it may have been caught up in one of the bomb blasts in Iraq yesterday. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040302/481/bei11003021506 If a mother had done this to her child in your country would she have been arrested...

I tried to convince my brother not to have his baby boys circumcised. He went ahead with it anyway because he didn’t want them to be different. Should we put an end to this barbaric practice? I don’t think you can have your daughter circumcised, why should you do it for your son. Sure female...