17,111
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Restraint: Minor text changes.
Over time, a vast variety of methods has been developed to remove the [[foreskin]]. A multitude of clamps and tools is available to ease the work of the circumciser, to improve the chance for visually symmetrical results and to prevent injuries to the [[Glans penis|glans]] from inexpert cuts. I will introduce some of the most widely spread variants.
====Restraint====
When an infant boys are boy is to be circumcised, it is the usual practice to immobilize the infant by securely tying his limbs to a board specially made for that purpose. The infant then thus is preventing from fighting or fleeing. The infant thus , which is placed in the trauma-producing situation of "''inescapable shock"'', described as a "physical condition in which the organism cannot do anything to affect the inevitable."<ref name="vanderkolk2014">{{REFbook
|last=van der Kolk
|first=Bessel