Circumcision bullet-points for parents

• Boys are born with a healthy, protective foreskin.
• Circumcision is a surgical operation to excise and amputate the foreskin.
• No disease is present in the penis of newborn boys.
• There are no medical indications for circumcision of newborn boys.
• Circumcision of newborn boys does not treat or prevent disease.
• Amputation of the protective foreskin does not improve health or well-being.
• Circumcision does subject a boy to risk of hemorrhage, infection, and surgical mishap.
• Surgical mishap includes loss of the glans penis, loss of the entire penis, and death.
• The foreskin has 16 important protective, immunological, sensory, and sexual physiological functions.
• The foreskin does prevent infection and disease.
• The proper treatment of a urinary tract infection is with antibiotics, not surgery.
• The foreskin prevents meatal stenosis.
• Infant circumcision causes extreme pain.
• General anesthesia is too dangerous to use in infants.
• The analgesia promoted to parents does not eliminate pain.
• Circumcised boys frequently go into shock from the pain.
• Circumcised boys suffer post-operative pain for about three weeks.
• Circumcised boys have difficulty with breastfeeding post-operatively.
• Circumcision causes physical trauma.
• Child circumcision is a traumatizing event.
• Circumcised boys may develop post-traumatic stress disorder.
• Circumcision causes psychological issues.
• Circumcised men may become adamant fathers.
• Circumcision always excises the ridged band.
• Circumcision effectively destroys the gliding action.
• The foreskin is the most important location of sexual sensation.
• Circumcision causes dramatic lifelong loss of sexual sensation.
• Circumcision adversely degrades the comfort and pleasure of female sexual partners.
• Loss of sexual pleasure does cause many circumcised men to become very angry and resentful with their parents.
• Money for physicians, surgeons, and hospitals is the driving force behind medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic child circumcision.
• Intactness is the new norm.

See also

• Alleged reasons for circumcision
• Arguments pro circumcision
• Care of intact, foreskinned boys
• Circumcision risks
• Complication
• Fatalities