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.