Is Circumcision Mutilation!!!! ?????????

Answer 1

Most definitely! It's the removal of half to two thirds of the penile skin area. In an adult that's 15 square inches or about 40 square centimetres. The USA is the last western nation still doing this to around half of its baby boys and it’s done horribly, without anaesthetic, based on the long-outdated belief that babies don’t feel pain. All the arguments for it are the same ones used by advocates of female circumcision and just as dubious. A male should have a right to whole genitals. When he's an adult he can decide if he wants this mutilation. It should be outlawed till then, just like tatoos are on children.

Using surgery to mutilate the genitals instead of washing in a modern western society makes no sense. Normal intact male genitals are, if anything, easier to wash than female ones and the same substance, smegma collects in the folds of both sorts. Most advocates of male circumcision would be horrified if this was done to girls.

Since its introduction into the west as an anti-masturbation measure in the 19th century, circumcision proponents have trotted out endlessly changing justifications for the procedure, as earlier ones are disproved. Most of these proposed reasons have later been proved to be based on flawed studies but the myths continue. Even if the claims for benefit were accepted the level of any protection from disease is so low as to be easily outweighed by the risks involved in the surgery. A few babies even die each year from circumcision complications and some lose their penis from necrotic infection. More common complications of infant circumcision, like skin bridges or too much skin removed, do not show up until much later in life. So the statistics do not include them in the complication rate. (A penis with a skin bridge is much harder to clean and causes major sexual difficulties.) However even on these artificially lowered statistics all the major medical authorities in the world now say that these risks outweigh the dubious benefits of routine infant circumcision.

The foreskin is packed with nerve endings, special anatomical features like the ridged band and has a unique elastic gliding action, allowing it to slide on itself and act like lube. This action is what most males use to masturbate with except those who are cut so tightly that they have to use lube or just rub it dry. Of course the intact male has the option to use lube too if he wants to. During intercourse it acts like lube on entry and may act as a dam, preventing lubricating secretions escaping from the vagina. In one study women reported that sex with an intact partner was gentler and more satisfying since he doesn't have to thrust as hard to feel enough stimulation. Removing the foreskin turns the surface of the glans from an inner mucosal membrane to outside skin. Newly circumcised adults usually go through some weeks of intense discomfort as the glans is constantly exposed to rubbing on clothing, until it develops a thicker keratin layer and becomes less sensitive. A new study has shown real differences in fine touch sensitivity between circumcised and intact penises and that the most sensitive parts of the intact penis are those that would be removed by circumcision.

A few intact males have problems with tight foreskin but this is only a tiny proportion of intact males. The condition can now be almost always treated with simple stretching exercises, sometimes in combination with a steroid cream that speeds up the process. However doctors who do not value the preservation of the foreskin often still trot out circumcision as a first-option treatment in the US and even some other countries. Circumcision should be the very last resort unless the male himself really wants it for other reasons.

Many men resent being circumcised, some so much that they stretch to try and regain some of their lost foreskin's function. They can never recover all the complex anatomy and lost nerve endings though.

Answer 2

LOL.

Only if done wrong, and that would be if it slipped and cut off the head (although rare, it happens as seen in the news). Then it would be since he wouldn't be able to perform well in sex and reproduction.

Otherwise, it does have some disadvantages.

New studies in the British Journal of Urology have found that circumcision reduces sensitivity and pleasure in the long run, since the head rubs against clothes all the time. It also makes masturbation more difficult (since you can't use the foreskin to rub the head, which is already moist), and that was how it was made popular here in the USA by Dr. Kellogg back in the late 1800s, btw. Religious fanatics we had back then.
http://forums.govteen.com/showpost.php?p=3069995&postcount=2

There's a reason why the USA is the only advanced nation still doing this to newborns. =P (although rates are falling; it's as low as 14% in some states now)

Other's do it because it's supposed to be cleaner, but personally I've never found that to be a problem; you just slide it back and rub the head; takes a few seconds and feels good. A vagina is more complicated if you look at it that way, meh. The USA still has the highest rates of HIV and circumcision (CIA statistics, link in link below), too, so bad for that report in Africa.

I've always wondered what the Europeans that get in here think in their minds about this issue... =P ... "silly Americans..."

Answer 3

Yourdictionary.com defines mutilate as"To disfigure by damaging irreparably." Circumcision meets this definition. It disfigures and damages the penis, and it is irreparable. Anytime a healthy, functional body part is whacked off for no good reason, that is mutilation.

Answer 4

Yes,it is mutilation,just as Maple said.What makes it even more horrifying is the fact that it is done to a helpless baby.who is given no choice in the matter of what is being done to HIS penis.

Answer 5

Most Definately.

I hate that the infants don't have a voice in that matter.

My co-worker knew she was gonna have a boy. So did the medical team. How 'bout they sent her a bill for the circumsion even before the child was born.

Answer 6

Sure, in no way can it be called something else. It is medically necessary only in a very very small percentage of males.

Answer 7

the newest studies say it harms men and women.here are the links.

Answer 8

no..not if it done by a professional doctor.

Answer 9

no its god damn painfull lol

Answer 10

no. its a perfectly fine procedure.