This is the point where I really need to say 'WTF, over?'

[ursa_mater]

(warning, sexual abuse trigger, child abuse trigger))

I posted this on my facebook yesterday because I felt it important and I needed to get the message out. Important enough, and bad/sickening/horrifying enough that I'm posting it here as well

Comments

[darkenna]

Well, there initially was a very valid medical reason for the circumcision tradition (like most Hebrew traditions & Kosher laws, like not mixing fabrics or eating pork). I, personally, feel that just because we now know a ton about what causes things like bacterial infections (or allergic reactions or trichinosis), it doesn't invalidate the traditions created by them. I may not follow said traditions, but I do understand them.

Given how the majority of youths generally react to most things involving cleanliness, circumcision still makes a fair amount of medical sense (unless you also think parents should be inspecting their sons' "wangs" for cleanliness daily, right on up through the teenage years). The best time to perform it is still right after childbirth, while the infant is still in shock over that bit of really intense trauma.

As for me, being circumcised has certainly never affected me in any sort of negative way (my penis still performs it's physical functions and transmits all the... ummm... sensations I could possibly desire). And, given that I was indeed one of those youths who couldn't have cared less about being clean, it probably saved me a whole lot of troubles and discomforts.

Even for medical treatment, to this day the medical establishment doesn't need your permission to perform procedures on you... only your legal guardian's. For minors and infants, this usually means the parents.