The worst thing is that it produces circumcisers. There is a segment of physicians who have the psychic compulsion to circumcise so they themselves do not feel genitally inferior or different
Could it be that the circumcised father is the one whose psyche is so disturbed that he suggests circumcision so his little son's genital status would not surpass his own?
Thomas J. Ritter, M.D.
Sex with a circumcised penis has been likened to 'trying to appreciate one of Goya's masterpieces by looking at a black and white photograph?'
Kenneth Purvis, M.D., Ph.D.
The same type of cultural astigmatism which prevented past generations from perceiving their actions as child abuse prevents contemporary Americans from perceiving or acknowledging the most widespread form of child abuse in society today; child mutilation through routine neonatal circumcision of males.
William E. Brigman
Circumcision as Child Abuse:
Legal-Constitutional Issues
University of Louisville
Journal of Family Law,
My preference, if I had the good fortune to have another son, would be to leave his little penis alone.
Benjamin Spock, M.D.
Baby and Child Care
in Redbook, p.53, April 1989
My first major loss was being severed forever from a sensitive part of my boy's body - my foreskin. This mutilation is an initiation into the warrior cult, which predates its medical and religious meanings and begins the wounding of our boys into manhood. We would benefit from better ways to treat our boys.
Shepherd Bliss - My War Story: A Child's Trauma
Journeyman
Could it be that the circumcised father is the one whose psyche is so disturbed that he suggests circumcision so his little son's genital status would not surpass his own?
Thomas J. Ritter, M.D.
Sex with a circumcised penis has been likened to 'trying to appreciate one of Goya's masterpieces by looking at a black and white photograph?'
Kenneth Purvis, M.D., Ph.D.
The same type of cultural astigmatism which prevented past generations from perceiving their actions as child abuse prevents contemporary Americans from perceiving or acknowledging the most widespread form of child abuse in society today; child mutilation through routine neonatal circumcision of males.
William E. Brigman
Circumcision as Child Abuse:
Legal-Constitutional Issues
University of Louisville
Journal of Family Law,
My preference, if I had the good fortune to have another son, would be to leave his little penis alone.
Benjamin Spock, M.D.
Baby and Child Care
in Redbook, p.53, April 1989
My first major loss was being severed forever from a sensitive part of my boy's body - my foreskin. This mutilation is an initiation into the warrior cult, which predates its medical and religious meanings and begins the wounding of our boys into manhood. We would benefit from better ways to treat our boys.
Shepherd Bliss - My War Story: A Child's Trauma
Journeyman
Vastaukset 5
Vanhimmat
Taasko se Esinahkafilogia pääsi mieliaiheeseensa?
Childhood genital mutilations are anachronistic rituals inflicted on the helpless bodies of non-consenting children of both sexes.
Hanny Lightfoot-Klein (personal correspondence) - author, Prisoners of Ritual: An Odyssey into Female Genital Circumcision in Africa, 1989
When a child is subjected to intolerable, overwhelming pain, it conceptualizes mother as both participatory and responsible regardless of mother's intent. The perception of the infant of her culpability and willingness to have him harmed is indelibly emplaced. The consequences for impaired bonding are significant.
Rima Laibow, M.D. - Circumcision and its Relationship to Attachment Impairment
Syllabus of Abstracts Second International Symposium on Circumcision, April 30, 1991
It is not easy to see evil in something that has the sanction of long tradition, but traditions can be bad or good. The represent inherited error as well as inherited truth.
Archbishop Lang - United Kingdom
Isn't it insulting to the average male's intelligence to think that surgery is preferable because he can't be trusted with washing his genitals when somehow he manages to brush his teeth, clean his ears and blow his nose?
Louanne Cole, Ph.D. - Sex Matters Columnist Is Circumcision Correct for Newborn Boys?
San Francisco Examiner, p.B7, August 11, 1993
Circumcision simply counteracts excessive lust; for there is no doubt that (it) weakens the power of sexual excitement, and sometimes lessens the natural enjoyment.
Moses Maimonides - Jewish Scholar (1135-1204 A.D.), The Guide of the Perplexed
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article V, United Nations Declaration of Human Rights
What's done to children, they will do to society.
Miehelle ei ole ympärileikkauksesta muuta kuin
hyötyä.
Recent Research on Male Genital Anatomy The
published research of Dr. John Taylor
demonstrates how circumcision destroys one-half
of the skin and nervous system of the penis.
Seliseli.