Circumcision on Penn and Teller show???

Question

I was watching the penn and teller show and they had an episode opposing circumcision. Apparently there is huge movement to make the procedure illegal. They argued that not a single medical organization in the U.S.A. recomends the procedure and that it has no real medical benefits, other then lowering urine tract infections which are more easily curable with antibiotics then with circumcision. Do you think this procedure should be illigal???

Answer 1

Definitly should be illigal!

Females are already protected by federal statute but boys are not given equal protection under the law, which is a basic tenet of our legal system in every other case.

A patent must be able to give consent before elective surgery can take place. The PARENTS ARE NOT THE PATENT, the boy is, and he can not give his consent until he is at least 18 years old.

The custodial power of parents of baby boys is commonly misused to authorize this elective surgery, of questionable benefit, so it apparently must be regulated by legal means.

Answer 2

"His argument became that at an analogous time as India had the utmost fee of cervical maximum cancers (and lowest fee of circumcision interior the worldwide)" it is unquestionably a faux assertion, Denmark has the backside circumcision fee interior the worldwide (toddler circumcision is unquestionably unlawful there now), and is between the healthiest international places interior the worldwide. Circumcision has no longer something to do with cervical maximum cancers, that has been disproven for some years. What human beings refer too as "micro organism" whilst it is composed of the foreskin that's no longer micro organism, that's a subtance referred to as smegma. that's lifeless pores and skin cells mixed with lubricating fluid. It does not smell like it in spite of the incontrovertible fact that that's actualy a subsance that helps shop the penis sparkling, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that whilst left to decay (which takes serveral months or years without washing) it may harbor micro organism. in spite of the incontrovertible fact which you would be able to desire to be exsposed to the micro organism first, it does not in basic terms seem there. The micro organism has to come again from someplace. (like a swiming pool, chemical factors on the penis and so on) the rationalization why maximum of persons are ignoring that's with the aid of fact that's no longer genuine. Cervical maximum cancers has no longer something to do with the male. no longer something. many times that's the analyze that tutor circumcision has no benifit that are hidden away. I personaly have self belief that's a scam to make money. As many analyze as there are accessible to tutor circumcision has a scientific benifits in basic terms as many (or greater) come lower back to tutor the alternative. -Connor

Answer 3

Yes, it should be illegal, but it probably never will be because banning it would go against certain religious beliefs. Maybe the best bet would be get medical associations to urge doctors to refuse to do it unless there is medical necessity (a miniscule percentage). Religious ones are usually done by non-doctors, I think.

Answer 4

If it is being done for religious beliefs or ANY REAL reason then fine. BUT...it is true that there is no benefit to it and if done wrong can do so much damage. Many new parents think they just "have to" circumcise baby boys, it is just not true. These parents should know both sides of the argument...I don't think the government needs to get involved with laws.

Answer 5

yes, except for religious observances.
as a society,genital mutilation should be a thing of the past. Once the child gets past 1 year old, the whole argument about cleanliness, infection, etc. is BS.
And FYI, all of my friends children that have been circumcised actually got infections as a result of the circumcision. So, it defeated the purpose didn't it?

Answer 6

I don't think it should be illegal. I think another reason for having a curcumcision is for better hygiene. I have a hard enough time making sure my 5 year old son washes his hands well enough. I can't imagine have to make sure the pulls the flap back far enough and cleans it well. It's a chore to get him to clean his circumcised self.

Answer 7

Personal medical decisions should ALWAYS be between the patient/parent/doctor and keep the damn government out of it.

Answer 8

OBVIOUSLY YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!






The “medical” reasons for circumcision are for Doctors to make MONEY!!!
Circumcision is “nothing” compared to other much more terrible things that people do for MONEY, when MONEY is involved EVERYRHING is possible, MONEY is the priority not moral values, not ethics, not health, not wrong or right, not even human life, etc. People are selfish by nature. And that is soooo sad. $$$CASH$$$

MOTHERS, the feelings of mothers who observed the circumcision of their babies. Go here if you have the courage:
http://www.circumcision.org/mothers.htm
They do not remember the pain when they grow up, but I wonder what kind of neurological/emotional damage it does to inflict such severe pain to such a young one!

In the US circumcision started to stop boys from masturbating; they will take much longer to reach the orgasm, and the orgasm will not be as intense, but that will not stop them.
Nowadays the “medical” reasons to circumcision are for Doctors to make MONEY!!!

RELIGION--If God intended boys to not have "skin" He would have made them so.
Also, if you examine the bible, lest just say that is full of terrible things that are considered very illegal nowadays, and many of those terrible things are AGAINST WOMEN. Women, how would you like it if those things get legalized?
http://www.nocirc.org/religion/

HYGIENE--Use a new invention, soap and water!!! Women produce much more “smegma”, all kinds of discharges, wetness, and smells; because of physiologic and anatomical reasons, and how would you feel if they cut your vulva lips??? Women, why don’t you answer my question, are you afraid? Women are more likely to get urinary tract infections and no one suggests we surgically alter them at birth to reduce the risks! Just one of many double standards and laws that always treat men worse.

MEDICAL REASONS--No medical reasons. It is not a birth defect! A extremely small chance of a complication do not justify the removal of the foreskin, if so, why don't we remove the tonsils and the appendix when a child is born, and the chance of complications of the tonsils and the appendix is much greater. And what is even greater is the chance of breast cancer so the best thing to do is to remove the breast glands of young girls or at least remove them at the first sign of trouble without trying any alternative treatments first in order to preserve the breast(women, how do you like it now?). And for infections of all the organs, including female organs, use a new invention called antibiotics. Talking about complications, in fact many baby boys die each year from circumcision and related complications.
EVEN if “TRUE phimosis” occurs, instead of chopping it off like barbarians!, use Conservative Treatments like:
-Topical Medication(non-traumatic and non-destructive)
-Dilation and Stretching(non-traumatic and non-destructive)
-Combination treatment(non-traumatic and non-destructive)
-Preputioplasty is the medical term for plastic surgery of the prepuce or foreskin(many methods).
If you want more detail on Conservative Treatments, go here:
http://www.cirp.org/library/treatment/phimosis/
http://www.circinfo.org/alternatives.html
The foreskin can still be tight even after puberty, and it is natural, not TRUE phimosis.
And now they invented a new reason to make money, the risk of STD in uncircumcised men. Well actually uncircumcised men have more protection, but in practical terms that protection means nothing, because circumcised or not, if you have sex without protection and your partner have an STD you will be infected FOR SURE! That means, it is just one more stupid and desperate reason in order to make money with circumcisions.

SEX--Foreskin actually enhances the sexual experience for men because it constantly moves over the head of the penis causing more friction and pleasure. Men will also lose much sensitivity to the glans if circumcised.
Circumcised men will have to deal with discomfort and dry glans. Uncircumcised men, pull the foreskin back for a day, and see how it feels against your underwear all day, and see what happens. The frenulum is the G SPOT in men.
The foreskin have those functions: protective, erogenous, sensory, and sexual physiologic. After all, why would you want to lose all of those “Meissner corpuscles”, the same nerve complexes which provide fine touch to the fingertips?
It is there for many reasons, that is how a man should be(it is natural).
If women like it better circumcised because it looks better(strange, not natural) or gives them more sexual pleasure(strange, not natural), then too bad, they do not have the right! All men do not like mutilated vulvas, and all men like breasts with nipples, they do not like mutilated breasts, etc, etc, etc, because that is the way those organs are supposed to be, it is natural. Interesting, isn’t?!!!

If that was a common practice to do that to baby girls, all the women would be in a BIG UPROAR about it(and men too!, men are not like women), but it’s ok to mutilate little boys. The great majority of the ones that agree with circumcision are women for their stupid selfish reasons. Even court cases reported in which mother and father fight because the mother wants to mutilate the son, it is always the mother!. You women should be ashamed to that to your son. Men that are not circumcised, will not get circumcised when adults, they would scream, kick, fight and run, if someone tries to mutilate their privates area, just like you women would run too if someone tried to do that to your labia. Men that where circumcised do not realize what they lost because never had one, and most of them that do realize try to justify it so they do not feel bad about it. Many circumcised men feel very bad emotionally because of what was done to them to such a private area.
It is mutilation of defenceless children in the most private spot, genital mutilation.
It is cruel and barbaric.
It is a human rights violation.
It is not the parent’s decision; it is the parent’s decision if they want to abuse him, rape him, or to kill him? It is the parent’s decision to choose the son religion? How can he chose a religion or his believes, if he is just a baby?
I do not even agree that it is ok if an adult man wants to get circumcised. I think it is wrong, because if a man wants to lose a finger, the Doctor can not do that to him. Think about it, think, think. And by the way, adult men that decide to get circumcised, do it because they know most women like it, they just do it to be more accepted by women.
I think it is just like slavery and all other barbaric acts of the past, it was accepted because it was common practice or tradition, everyone accepted slavery without questioning the facts, but it is not accepted anymore in a modern and fair and civilized society. Circumcision must not be allowed, BY LAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Many other reasons not to do it, check it out:
http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org/
http://www.cirp.org/library/treatment/phimosis/
http://www.noharmm.org/
http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/
http://www.circumcisionquotes.com/boydies.html

Answer 9

I dont miss the extra flap of skin. I say, go for it....Keep on cutting...