tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472837978868985189.post4616135148086833209..comments2023-10-19T02:34:19.388-07:00Comments on Crunchy Mom's Soggy Blog: Spare Him The (Un)Kindest Cut!Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06514709308634967432noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472837978868985189.post-27456894977111056622009-01-28T16:06:00.000-08:002009-01-28T16:06:00.000-08:00GREAT POST WENDY!! Congrats on having the courage ...GREAT POST WENDY!! Congrats on having the courage to stand against it. Very well worded :-)Ron and Hermione Fan Fichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05694304483941958159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472837978868985189.post-79373848967407718452008-11-05T16:50:00.000-08:002008-11-05T16:50:00.000-08:00I know this is an old post..but I want you to know...I know this is an old post..but I want you to know how happy I was to read this. I have a two year old son and when he was first born I was torn about what to do. My husband and I decided to wait and think about it...and at home sat and watched a circumcision video. It broke our hearts and we decided right then and there that we wouldn't put him through that. I couldnt see a good reason to do it. I figured if he was born with it...it didnt need to be taken away. I did worry about keeping it clean...but with time realized that it wasnt a big issue at all. I'm 7 months pregnant with my second boy..and will be keeping him exactly the way he's born :DAllyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05493015272989748489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472837978868985189.post-22176921662587214622008-09-09T12:43:00.000-07:002008-09-09T12:43:00.000-07:00as frank said:"If circumcision provided an effecti...as frank said:<BR/>"If circumcision provided an effective means of protection, this is just impossible. The vectors of transmission would be effectively broken and HIV/AIDS would be something that happens somewhere else like the ebola plague in Africa"<BR/><BR/>this arguement msy be more appropriate if AIDS was only transmitted sexually.<BR/>don't forget IV drug users.UMDLAX4https://www.blogger.com/profile/05336581101061029265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472837978868985189.post-4605997545160323022008-09-03T22:34:00.000-07:002008-09-03T22:34:00.000-07:00Preach it sistah!I was a nursing student and had a...Preach it sistah!<BR/><BR/>I was a nursing student and had a very bad incident with a newborn who had adhesions to the bandage around his penis. He bled a lot- mom, baby and I were very upset and scarred for life. I determined in my heart that day that I will never circumcise if I have a son.Mandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15296837285973511765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472837978868985189.post-67382947530018430972008-09-01T20:25:00.000-07:002008-09-01T20:25:00.000-07:00I loved this post so much I linked it from my blog...I loved this post so much I linked it from my blog! http://unbrilliantmind.blogspot.comOf Pandas and Pirateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15699526185960109471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472837978868985189.post-50459264055011144872008-08-31T11:34:00.000-07:002008-08-31T11:34:00.000-07:00Thank you everyone for your comments. I am so ple...Thank you everyone for your comments. I am so pleased to see so many men step up and talk about circumcision.<BR/><BR/>Frank, I know exactly who you are! We've met on another message board. :-) I want to thank you so much for taking the time to add such valuable information to my blog. I think you made some excellent points and I love how you were able to expand on the topics I just touched on. <BR/><BR/>WendyWendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06514709308634967432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472837978868985189.post-76934890347264725532008-08-31T11:05:00.000-07:002008-08-31T11:05:00.000-07:00I want to congratulate you on a well written and e...I want to congratulate you on a well written and erudite summary of this issue and to assure you that what I write below is not a criticism but just additional detail.<BR/><BR/>You wrote about the current controversy about circumcision and HIV/AIDS. We only have to look at populations around the world and other interventions to see that this study holds no water.<BR/><BR/>For instance, there have been four studies this year in Australia, New Zealand, The US and England showing absolutely no difference in the HIV/AIDS rate between circumcised and intact men. If there were the 61% protective effect claimed by the recent studies, the different would be demonstratable and significant.<BR/><BR/>Consider another epidemic that once plagued us, the polio epidemic of the 1940's and 1950's and the current HIV/AIDS epidemic. Polio is a virus that exists in nature and is easily communicable by casual contact. HIV/AIDS is relatively difficult to transmit and contract requiring intimate contact and exchange of bodily fluids. HIV/<BR/>AIDS does not exist outside the body more than moments.<BR/><BR/>The polio vaccine has an effective rate of just 70% yet wiped the disease out of the population in just a single generation. If circumcision had a protective effect of 61% as claimed, the evidence shows us that the disease could have never become established in our population with a circumcision rate among sexually active men of 80% - 85%. Indeed, the sub-population with the highest circumcision rate, African Americans, also has the highest HIV/AIDS infection rate. As a matter of fact, it is estimated that African American women constitute 80% of all infected women. If circumcision provided an effective means of protection, this is just impossible. The vectors of transmission would be effectively broken and HIV/AIDS would be something that happens somewhere else like the ebola plague in Africa.<BR/><BR/>RE: Penile Cancer: It has been claimed that one in 110,000 intact men contract this cancer. That is not men that died of the cancer, only the ones that contracted it. This cancer (squamous cell carcinoma in situ) is the same cancer that people get on their faces and arms from sun exposure and is effectively treated the same way. The cancer is simply removed in a simple and quick in-office procedure and the cure is virtually 100%. In contrast, the death rate of infant circumcision is .006 or about 1 in 18,000 procedures. That means that 7 babies will die from the procedure that is claimed to prevent one treatable cancer. That simply makes no sense at all but that's something the medical profession never tells parents.<BR/><BR/>Indeed, this cancer is caused by the human papilloma virus and there is now a vaccine for this infection that promises to relegate the infection to the annuls of medical history along with both cervical cancer and penile cancer.<BR/><BR/>RE: bacterial and yeast infections: These infections in boys are caused by the identical bacteria and fungals that cause infections in girls and are treated with the exact same medications with an equal prognosis for successful treatment. The only difference is that girls contract these infections at a multiple times greater rate than males. No one would recommend surgical amputation of girls genital parts as a preventitive intervention but it is among the greatest justification for boys.<BR/><BR/>RE: Looking like Dad. Where are all the damaged men? Circumcision did not become common until just before WWII and before that time, all circumcised men would have looked differently than their fathers. This is usually given as a dire warning that the child will be significantly psychologically harmed if his father is circumcised and he is not. Oddly, the reverse is not given as a warning and it becomes a difference in his peers that is the warning. Just what is this psychological harm? Will he become reclusive? Will he reject sex or women? Will he become psychotic? Oddly, no one has ever been able to answer those questions. Why is that? Could it be that there are no psychological implications? I suspect so for if there were any, someone would have been able to idenitfy them by now.<BR/><BR/>RE: Locker room. With a circumcision rate approaching 50% in The US and 6% in Canada, this is no longer an issue as there will be equal numbers at worst and more not circumcised at best so that circumcision is not the norm any longer and those that are circumcised will be in the minority. This has all changed in just the last 10 years. Those who are advocating circumcision often state that "every man I know is circumcised" and that may be true but they are looking at the trend of 20 - 40 years ago. Boys being born currently will not have the perspective of that age but of this age and by and large, most of his peers will possess a foreskin. With the rapid change of this issue, another question arises . . . How do you explain why you circumcised your child (to a teenaged child) when equal numbers or more are not circumcised. With the information available now and sure to increase in the future, I can imagine this will be a very difficult explanation for the parents of the future and one that I would not like to have to give.<BR/><BR/>RE: Damage of Circumcision. This is something that is held closely in families and reports of it have not been generally made public. However with the internet and the annomity it provides, men with severe problems caused by their circumcisions are coming out of the woodwork. Some of these preclude ever having normal sex or fathering children.<BR/><BR/>Circumcision is simply a cultural practice the same as ear piercing or tattooing. It is one that was initally medicalized with preposterous claims of disease prevention. All of those claims have been effective refuted and it is now known that it protects against nothing. Yet we continue to do it as a matter of momentum. I say if we can't find a justifiable and PROVEN reason to continue it, this sacred cow deserves to be killed.<BR/><BR/><BR/>FrankFrankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05578998112138446620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472837978868985189.post-69616114639588065652008-08-31T09:23:00.000-07:002008-08-31T09:23:00.000-07:00If Dad thinks it's important that father and son h...If Dad thinks it's important that father and son have matching genitalia, he should first shave his body hair, no? <BR/><BR/>Better yet, Dad can just undertake non-surgical foreskin restoration for himself. Foreskin feels REALLY good.TLC Tuggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16239396308939812371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472837978868985189.post-67970446663939497822008-08-30T22:43:00.000-07:002008-08-30T22:43:00.000-07:00I'm one of six brothers and we're all intact. I co...I'm one of six brothers and we're all intact. I couldn't imagine having sex not being natural(circumcised).<BR/>My wife says there is so much more to play with and enjoy.<BR/>Thanks for taking a stand on this issue. It should be up to the owner, if he wants to make any changes to his penis.specialaffinityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03004519335393571260noreply@blogger.com