When he was a boy, part of his body was cut off without his consent.

Text from Wikipedia: The Plastibell Circumcision Device is a clear plastic ring with handle designed for male neonatal circumcision that has a deep groove running circumferentially. The adhesions between   more...glans and foreskin are divided with a probe. Then the foreskin is cut longitudinally to allow it to be retracted and the glans (the head of penis) to be exposed.

The Plastibell comes in 6 sizes. The appropriate one is chosen and applied to the head. The ring is then covered over by the foreskin. A ligature is tied firmly around the foreskin, crushing the skin against the groove in the Plastibell. Then the excess skin protruding beyond the ring is trimmed off. Finally, the handle is broken off at the end of the procedure.

The entire procedure takes five to ten minutes, depending on the experience and skill of the surgeon. The ring falls off in 3 to 7 days leaving a circumferential wound that will heal over the following week. Typically, the glans will appear red or yellow until it has cornified.

At least 50% of American non-therapeutic infant circumcisions since 1980 have been performed with a Plastibell.  less

Text from Wikipedia:

Male circumcision is the removal of some or all of the foreskin (prepuce) from the penis.[1] The word "circumcision" comes from Latin circum (meaning "around")   more...and cædere (meaning "to cut").

Early depictions of circumcision are found in cave drawings and Ancient Egyptian tombs, though some pictures may be open to interpretation.[2][3][4] Male circumcision is considered a commandment from God in Judaism.[5] In Islam, though not discussed in the Qur'an, circumcision is widely practiced and most often considered to be a sunnah.[6] It is also customary in some Christian churches in Africa, including some Oriental Orthodox Churches.[7] According to the World Health Organization (WHO), global estimates suggest that 30% of males are circumcised, of whom 68% are Muslim.[8] The prevalence of circumcision varies mostly with religious affiliation, and sometimes culture.

There is controversy surrounding circumcision. Advocates for circumcision state that it provides important health advantages which outweigh the risks, has no substantial effects on sexual function, has a low complication rate when carried out by an experienced physician, and is best performed during the neonatal period.[9] Opponents of circumcision state that it is extremely painful, adversely affects sexual pleasure and performance, may increase the risk of certain infections, and when performed on infants and children violates the individual's human rights.[10]

The American Medical Association stated in 1999: "Virtually all current policy statements from specialty societies and medical organizations do not recommend routine neonatal circumcision, and support the provision of accurate and unbiased information to parents to inform their choice."[11]

For infant circumcision, modern devices such as the Gomco clamp, Plastibell, and Mogen clamp are available.[14]

With all modern devices the same basic procedure is followed. First, the amount of foreskin to be removed is estimated. The foreskin is then opened via the preputial orifice to reveal the glans underneath and ensure it is normal. The inner lining of the foreskin (preputial epithelium) is then bluntly separated from its attachment to the glans. The device is then placed (this sometimes requires a dorsal slit) and remains there until blood flow has stopped. Finally, the foreskin is amputated.[15]  less

Learn more here: <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/doulasarah/circumcisioninformation.htm">http://www.freewebs.com/doulasarah/circumcisioninformation.htm</a>

The American Academy of Pediatrics says:

Role of Hygiene

"there is little evidence to affirm the association between circumcision status and optimum penile hygiene."

STDs including HIV

"behavioral   more...factors appear to be far more important than circumcision status."

Penile Cancer

"in a developed country such as the United States, penile cancer is a rare disease and the risk of penile cancer developing in an uncircumcised man, although increased compared with a circumcised man, is low."

Ethics

Of course here, they hedge and say while even though cutting off part of your baby's genitalia "is not essential to the child's current well-being" they are perfectly fine with parents and doctors using cultural tradition as justification. This report is also the first time the AAP has acknowledged(after decades of doctors mindlessly repeating the belief that babies don't feel significant pain) that circumcision without anesthesia is traumatic and if circumcision is to be done, anesthesia should be used.

I would like to know if the AAP thinks cultural tradition is an acceptable reason to cut off the clitoral hoods(biologically analogous to foreskin) of infant girls especially if it is done with anesthesia as is the case here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWvi475cYZY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWvi475cYZY</a>
(the video is not particularly graphic as it was made by a mother who had her own clitoral hood cut off when she was a baby and she wants to continue the tradition)

If you want, you can read the full AAP policy here: <a href="http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap1999/">http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap1999/</a>  less

With his best-selling book "Baby and Child Care", Dr Benjamin Spock influenced several generations of parents to be more flexible and affectionate with their children, and to treat them as individuals   more...(whereas the previous conventional wisdom had been that child rearing should focus on building discipline, and that, eg, babies should not be "spoiled" by picking them up when they cried).

The First Edition (1946) followed the conventional wisdom on circumcision: he recommended it. In the Sixth Edition (1985) he wrote about circumcising healthy children, "I strongly recommend leaving the foreskin alone. Parents should insist on convincing reasons for circumcision — and there are no convincing reasons that I know of."

In this video, he is referring to how some American parents would bring their child to a doctor with the complaint that the child was exploring his or her own genitalia in a sexual way. In these cases, the doctor would often diagnose the cause as an 'irritated' glans hood. In order to reduce the child's pleasure-motive(the whole underside of the foreskin is sexually sensitive to stimulation as opposed to the non-sexual shaft skin) and to reduce the ease of the child masturbating(circumcised males often need to use artificial lubrication to masturbate without rubbing themselves raw), the doctor would then circumcise the child.

Learn more how fear of children masturbating was a major reason why Americans began routinely circumcising: <a href="http://www.cirp.org/pages/whycirc.html">http://www.cirp.org/pages/whycirc.html</a>

Learn more about the <a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=105083429&blogID=295196224">America's Forgotten History of Child Female Circumcision</a>.  less

For study summaries, visit: www.circumcision.org/studies.htm

Visit his site: http://montagunocircpetition.org/

"It is an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society."

--World Renowned Anthropologist Ashley   more...Montagu  less

"There are no valid medical indications for circumcision in the neonatal period."
- Committee on Fetus and Newborn. Standards and Recommendations for Hospital Care of Newborn Infants, 5th edition.   more...Evanston, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics. (1971). p.110.

"Circumcision is not a medical decision. Preventing an improbably future infection is a spurious indication. The standard of care is antibiotics, not amputation."
- Eileen Marie Wayne, MD, Letters (Nothing to debate on circumcision), American Medical News, (27 July, 1998). P.27.

"My own preference, if I had the good fortune to have another son, would be to leave his little penis alone."
- Benjamin Spock, MD

"Historians of the future will find it incredible that we mutilated babies by cutting off the end of their penises in the name of medicine. There are now serious concerns this routine procedure may actually deprive adult men of a vital part of their sexual sensitivity."
- Dean Edell, MD - Radio and Television Medical Advisor

"Circumcision causes pain, trauma, and a permanent loss of protective and erogenous tissue... Removing normal, healthy, functioning tissue for no medical reason has ethical implications: circumcision violates the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 5) and the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child (Article 13)."
- Leo Sorger, to American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology: Stop Circumcisions, Ob Gyn News, (1 Nov., 1994). p.8.  less

When a woman decides to have her breasts cut open and silicone pumped in so she can alter her body in a way nature never intended, we as a culture view that as a perfectly normal thing to do, but when   more...a man wants to restore a natural functional healthy body part that was cut off of him without his consent, we view him as odd?!

Mainstream Newspaper and Magazine Articles on Restoration and those doing it:
<a href="http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/01.27.00/foreskin-0004.html">http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/01.27.00/foreskin-0004.html</a>
<a href="http://www.infocirc.org/GQ0200.htm">http://www.infocirc.org/GQ0200.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.houstonpress.com/2007-07-12/news/the-fantastic-foreskin">http://www.houstonpress.com/2007-07-12/news/the-fantastic-foreskin</a>

FAQs on Restoration:
<a href="http://www.cirp.org/pages/restore.html">http://www.cirp.org/pages/restore.html</a>

TV Talk Show Video Segment on Restoration:
<a href="http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1009822">http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1009822</a>

Excellent Restoration sites:
<a href="http://www.tlctugger.com">http://www.tlctugger.com</a>
<a href="http://www.newforeskin.biz/">http://www.newforeskin.biz/</a>
<a href="http://www.foreskinrestorationchat.info/">http://www.foreskinrestorationchat.info/</a>  less

Learn more here: http://www.cirp.org/pages/parents/FAQ/

Learn more here: http://www.historyofcircumcision.net

When and why did Americans start circumcising?

www.myspace.com/since7

As a teenager David learned from his father what had happened. He then went to visit Jean-Marie Huot, armed with a gun.

Here David describes that incident, and his mother Janet talks about the pain and   more...suffering of her child and his attempts to end his own life.

David finally did commit suicide in 2004.  less

Part of his penis was cut off without his consent.

Talmudic blood circumcision rituals
http://www.come-and-hear.com/editor/br_4.html

EVIDENCE OF ISRAELI INVOLVEMENT IN 9/11:
http://iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_ZionSummary.html

9/11 special audio   more...file here:
http://iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_Bollyn-Hufschmid-11Sep2006.html

evidence of the holocaust FRAUD here:
pics and documents from the camps

http://judicial-inc.biz/Auschwitz.htm
http://judicial-inc.biz/Treblinka.htm

jews like,Churchill,Stalin,Eisenhow er exposed:
jewish WW2 conspiracy to create israel

http://judicial-inc.biz/Bush_Mossad11.htm  less