Ouch: Botched Circumcision

"Maybe the doc should have been less stupid and used the..."

Even better, maybe the doc should refuse requests to perform unnecessary, elective surgery on perfectly healthy boys who are not in need of any surgery.

Medical ethics should be universal, with no exception made for totally optional penis surgery on babies.

Wow, I can tell that this post will get the same set of comments as the SmartKlamp post. I've read a number of articles over the past few months that have talked bout a decrease in the rate of HIV/AIDS infection among circumcised men in Africa. As I recall it, the populations of circumcised and uncircumcised men reported the same level of risky sexual activity. This older, NatGeo article seems to relay something similar. While I can appreciate the resistance to (and, as seen in the SmartKlamp post, revulsion at) the practice of circumcision as a form of male genital mutilation, it is unfair to suggest that any circumcised man has been butchered. Having been "cut" myself as a part of my bris, I never had a choice in the matter, nor did I understand what being uncircumcised meant or looked like until much later, but I have no emotional scars from the experience, and I've never had any problems with sensitivity or reaching climax. It leads me to believe that the experience of being circumcised is subjective. It also appears that women are not going to refuse to engage in coitus based on the presence or lack of a foreskin. (I don't recall having to pass a foreskin assessment before any of my sexual relationships, anyway.) In my view, as badly botched as this procedure was, it does not very well imform someone making the decision to circumcise or not. All surgical procedures are risky, and much depends on the skill and experience of the practitioner. Yet, as we saw with the Duke University transplant team some time ago, even experienced clinicians can muck up a procedure by simply not checking something as simple as a blood type match with a donor, or (as in this case) checking to see that the glans will not be severed.

Sisyphus,

Thank you for your reasonable remarks. What's done is done, to be sure. But a child born today deserves the right to keep his whole sex organ. There is ample evidence that what is lost is not trivial.

http://www.nocirc.org/touch-test/touchtest.php

People deserve to make this choice for themselves. It hasn't always been that way, but it should be now.

That is so sad. Poor kid will forever be mutilated.

The HIV/AIDS study notwithstanding (HIV/AIDS can be prevented by much less invasive means than cutting foreskin off), I just don't see the point in circumcision. The benefits simply do not outweigh the risks.

USA has the highest circumcision rate and highest HIV rate of any industrialized nation. Circumcision does not prevent HIV, nor do infants have sex. This poor kid... a victim of the doctors who don't have the courage to say NO to this barbaric procedure. It is quite barbaric if you look on youtube

They're talking about this on Mothering.com: The Case Against Circumcision forum. These parents are squarely to blame for this. http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=714366

"10 Out Of 10 Babies Oppose Circumcision... Shouldn't You? Question Circumcision!"

It's hard to argue with this type of information!!!!!:

http://www.sexasanatureintendedit.com/

"The injury to this boy was completely preventable."

That's right.. the permanent injury to all circumcised boys is completely preventable. What a completely sick thing to do - to cut off a part of newborn's penis.

So first of all the title offends me.."Ouch" how about "INCONCEIVABLE ERROR"? Why is it when a baby girl is injured as result of medical malpractice we are all outraged and something has to be done, but when it's a baby boy, and especially relating to his genitalia, it's "OOPS, OUCH" and nothing more. Seems odd doesn't it? This is yet another prime example of how this mutilation should end and how the world does not want to accept the fact that this happens. No major network will ever carry the story and no one will really know about this case. It's time for us to make that change and spread the word. I encourage everyone to email this story to anyone who is pregnant or thinking about becoming pregant and getting the word out. It's time to take a stand for baby boys, because really, no one else is. (to those who are offended by the term mutilation, I apologize. The fact of the matter is, you were born one way, and changed at the hands of someone else. Why should they decide what your penis looks like? Didn't God do it right the first time?)

it is a jewish practice, and as i know the biggest jewish population is in the usa

It is also a Muslim practice, and in America most boys get it regardless of religion.

"Mutilation Nation"


http://wreckingboy.livejournal.com/318545.html



RIC (Routine Infant Circumcision) = MGM (Male Genital Mutilation)!!!