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| | Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 5:45 AM | | | |
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| | | | |  | AAP Releases Circumcision Policy Statement
02:09
The American Academy of Pediatrics says:
Role of Hygiene
"there is little evidence to affirm the association between circumcision status and optimum more...penile hygiene."
STDs including HIV
"behavioral 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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWvi475cYZY
(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: http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap1999/ less
Added: May 1, 08
Views: 486
Category: News |
| | |  | Spock on Baby Circumcision
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With his best-selling book "Baby and Child Care", Dr Benjamin Spock influenced several generations of parents to be more flexible and affectionate with more...their children, and to treat them as individuals (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: http://www.cirp.org/pages/whycirc.html
Learn more about the America's Forgotten History of Child Female Circumcision. less
Added: Apr 22, 08
Views: 148
Category: People |
| | |  | Male and Female Circumcision
01:48 
For a comparison by noted FGM researcher Hanny Lightfoot-Klein, visit: http://www.fgmnetwork.org/intro/mgmfgm.php
Added: Mar 3, 08
Views: 130
Category: Extreme |
| | |  | Ashley Montagu on Circumcision
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Visit his site: http://montagunocircpetition.org/
"It is an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized more...society."
--World Renowned Anthropologist Ashley Montagu less
Added: Feb 14, 08
Views: 368
Category: Extreme |
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