NEWS FLASH!!

New Study: Circumcision Cuts Penis Sensitivity
April 2007 Study
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This study says that intact men have FOUR TIMES more sensitivity than circumcised.

What does this mean? Some circ'd men would say that they would not want to be MORE sensitive...But I have learned that this is a misinterpretation of this study...

From Marilyn Milos of www.nocirc.org, who was involved in this study:

"The 20,000 nerve endings that encircle the opening of the foreskin allow a man to know what his penis is feeling and where he is in relation to the ejaculatory threshold. These erogenous nerve endings allow an intact man to learn to ride the wave to orgasm. Without them, he goes "Ohhh, ohhh, oops! Sorry, honey, it's because I'm so sensitive."

In reality, it's not because he's so sensitive, it's because the nerve endings he's supposed to have are gone! Someone cut them off when he was too little to consent, resist, or escape. Circumcised men don't ride the wave to orgasm. My circumcised husband says, "I've never had an orgasm. I ejaculate, but I've never had an orgasm."  In human sexuality classes, men tell me the same thing. And, they're happy to know they aren't to blame for the #1 cause of sexual dysfunction in young American men: premature ejaculation. It's not because they haven't read enough, had enough experience, or are selfish lovers, it's because they lack the nerve endings that would allow them to have normal sex.

As men get older and the keratinization process causes the free nerve endings on the glans to become more and more deeply buried and insensitive to stimulation, it takes the circumcised male longer and longer to reach orgasm. This is why older men complain about sexual dysfunction and impotence when they get older. That's the legacy of what we've done to our precious husbands, brothers, and sons...

This, in part, is why we must bring the atrocity to an end!"

And later:

"And, yes, it is sad. Very sad! But, once we realize what the problem is, we can do something about it. Men stop feeling like it's their fault, wives stop blaming them, couples begin to talk, and the deep tension that underlies many relationships because of a dysfunctional sex life dissipates. We can work with it when we know what "it'" is. And, we can stop making more "it"s happen, too! That's the good news... I hope you'll post this, the rest of the story, too."

The rest of the story follows...

But I'm no expert...

But these people are:

 Doctors Opposing Circumcision

Nurses for the Rights of the Child

Attorneys for the Rights of the Child

Let's look at the most common reasons people circumcise:

"To look like Daddy"--So if your son's nose doesn't look like Daddy, are you going to have surgery on that too? How about his ears? This makes no sense. It will be a LONG time before your son's penis looks anything like his father's...And by the time it does, he won't be comparing. Your son won't care that he doesn't look like Daddy and neither should you. He'll thank you for not having him unnecessarily cut.

"It will protect him from penile cancer, UTI's, AIDs, blah blah blah..."--All of these have been proven false. Do your research. This information is still being passed around, even by people who should know better...It's just plain wrong and outdated. Get your facts straight. There isn't ANYTHING that circumcision will protect your son from. Here is a very enlightening pamphlet that goes through many reasons that have been given to circumcise and why they are not true. Print it up and give to anyone that tries to tell you otherwise.

"He'll be teased."--Actually, with the national circumcision rate now at 55%, that's highly unlikely (especially with our homophobic culture)...and here in California, intact boys are in the majority at 60% INTACT, 40% circ'd. Pretty amazing eh?
Back to the argument that he will be teased...many kids will tease about anything and everything...Cutting off body parts won't stop teasing. So you're going to put your newborn son through a painful and unnecessarily surgery just because he MAY be teased? How about teaching him about strength of character and that people who tease are weak and have low self esteem?

"It's better hygiene."--No, actually it's not. There's nothing special about keeping a normal, natural, intact penis clean. There's nothing difficult about it. Anyway, some people will never be clean, no matter how much you cut off. Don't put your son through an unnecessary, excruciatingly painful amputation simply because you are worried about his cleanliness. This is ludicrous! Here's an interesting thought, as one doctor wrote in "Circumcision: A Medical
or Human Rights Issue?" that removing the foreskin for hygiene's sake is like removing one's eyelid for a cleaner eyeball!

"He may have to have it done later, and that's very painful so I will save him that by doing it while he won't remember."--This makes no sense. Your daughters have a much higher risk of getting breast cancer and so it would be more beneficial, statistically speaking, to remove the breast buds of baby girls than it would be to remove the foreskin of a baby boy, as a preventative measure. How ridiculous does that sound? Anyone you know that has had his foreskin removed as an older boy or adult will most likely (perhaps even 99% of the time) have had it done out of misinformation. Because we have a culture of doctors that don't know about normal, healthy, intact penises, they are prescribing circumcision when they are unnecessary. The foreskin is the only part of the body that is routinely amputated from simple infections when any other part of the body would simply be treated and cured. It makes no sense.
And one of the biggest reasons that foreskins are getting damaged and infected is because people who don't know better are retracting them. DON'T RETRACT YOUR INTACT SON'S PENIS! And educate the medical professionals that tell you to do so! The foreskin of an intact boy is ATTACHED! It will detach as he grows older, and this is normal and natural. As Marilyn Milos of www.nocirc.org says...You care for an intact penis the same way you would a finger. There's just nothing special about caring for it! There shouldn't be any retraction of the foreskin until it is sufficiently detached and the boy should be the one to do it himself at that point. You teach your intact son to hold back the folds and wash himself just as easily as you teach your daughter to hold back the folds of her labia and wash herself. Boys are just as capable as girls to do this. Don't insult them by suggesting that they are not capable and so need surgical removal of a healthy body part to ensure they don't forget to wash themselves! (Trust me, it's been said!)
For information on the care of your intact son's penis, see this pamphlet.

And Here's a thought on the "he won't remember it" argument--If an infant is raped, does it have no effect on them because they are too young to remember it? Does it make the crime any less heinous? No! They remember on a cellular level. Their body remembers! And if anything, I think it actually is MORE heinous BECAUSE it was done to them when they were vulnerable and powerless and trusting!

"Well it doesn't really hurt anymore because they use anesthetic."--I've been told that most circumcisions done in the US today STILL do not use anesthetic, because it is dangerous to the infant. This is the most sensitive part of a newborn baby's body (its been said that babies are actually MORE sensitive than adults, as far as pain felt) and you are talking about not just cutting it off, but ripping it away (remember, it's still attached on babies!) without any form of anesthetic. Or if they do use anesthetic, it is highly ineffectual. The cream pretty much doesn't do much, and is dangerous. The shot hurts nearly as bad as the circumcision, and it has to be done FOUR TIMES for it to actually work! Then once it wears off they still have the pain of a healing amputation WITHOUT ANY PAIN MEDS. Something that vaseline does little to sooth as recurrent urination occurs in the open wound. And all this WHY???