This is great. I was circumcised at birth and I hate it. I think all children should be able to grow up with their whole sex organ. I wish my parents had seen a billboard like this. Maybe I would be intact. Instead, I was cut and I am having to restore my foreskin to regain some of what I lost. The more I restore, the more I realize that infant circumcision is not in the best interest of any child.
Jeffsays
The AAP wanted evidence to support circumcision, so they found it. They did not find it in Germany though (6x lower HIV infection rate than in the US). Instead they went to the 3rd-world in Africa.
I am ashamed of the medical institutions in this country. Add circumcision to the long list of stupid medical policies and treatments. It wasn’t long ago that America had female circumcision (yes we did). We also had routine hysterectomies, tonsillectomies, over-prescription or antibiotics, under-prescription of pro-biotics…. Yet we still honor the “doctor knows best” ideology.
The rest of the modern world has discovered the barbarity of this practice. Circumcision makes sex more difficult for the woman. It causes more rubbing, and the loss of male sensitivity means the man must move more aggressively during sex. Circumcision is not only an assault on the man, it harms women too.
Live on in ignorance America.
Tanyasays
Dads, please think twice, three times, a hundred times, before you let someone permanently remove one of the most sensitive parts of your little boy’s body. My circumcised husband has serious sexual problems due to lack of sensitivity. He’s had everything checked out, is perfectly healthy otherwise, the desire is certainly there but we can rarely have more than a few minutes together before he loses it. Do you want to risk this for your son? But don’t take my word for it: study the facts, they are easy to find.
Franksays
States where Medicaid no longer covers circumcision have seen their circ rates drop gradually to as low as 11% and 12%, falling across ethnic groups and income levels, and even with private insurance, which in some states also no longer covers circumcision. There has been no big public outcry and intact has become the normal. There is no evidence of increased medical problems among the growing population of intact young males. It may be time for other states, and private insurance too, to stop paying for all medically unneccesary circumcisions. Nothing bad is happening in 18 states where circ rates have fallen, some to very low levels, and increasingly there, people just don’t do it anymore anyways by choice.
Tally says
This is great. I was circumcised at birth and I hate it. I think all children should be able to grow up with their whole sex organ. I wish my parents had seen a billboard like this. Maybe I would be intact. Instead, I was cut and I am having to restore my foreskin to regain some of what I lost. The more I restore, the more I realize that infant circumcision is not in the best interest of any child.
Jeff says
The AAP wanted evidence to support circumcision, so they found it. They did not find it in Germany though (6x lower HIV infection rate than in the US). Instead they went to the 3rd-world in Africa.
I am ashamed of the medical institutions in this country. Add circumcision to the long list of stupid medical policies and treatments. It wasn’t long ago that America had female circumcision (yes we did). We also had routine hysterectomies, tonsillectomies, over-prescription or antibiotics, under-prescription of pro-biotics…. Yet we still honor the “doctor knows best” ideology.
The rest of the modern world has discovered the barbarity of this practice. Circumcision makes sex more difficult for the woman. It causes more rubbing, and the loss of male sensitivity means the man must move more aggressively during sex. Circumcision is not only an assault on the man, it harms women too.
Live on in ignorance America.
Tanya says
Dads, please think twice, three times, a hundred times, before you let someone permanently remove one of the most sensitive parts of your little boy’s body. My circumcised husband has serious sexual problems due to lack of sensitivity. He’s had everything checked out, is perfectly healthy otherwise, the desire is certainly there but we can rarely have more than a few minutes together before he loses it. Do you want to risk this for your son? But don’t take my word for it: study the facts, they are easy to find.
Frank says
States where Medicaid no longer covers circumcision have seen their circ rates drop gradually to as low as 11% and 12%, falling across ethnic groups and income levels, and even with private insurance, which in some states also no longer covers circumcision. There has been no big public outcry and intact has become the normal. There is no evidence of increased medical problems among the growing population of intact young males. It may be time for other states, and private insurance too, to stop paying for all medically unneccesary circumcisions. Nothing bad is happening in 18 states where circ rates have fallen, some to very low levels, and increasingly there, people just don’t do it anymore anyways by choice.