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Parents face so many difficult decisions when it comes to having a child: decisions about nursing, sleep patterns, discipline, teaching methods and, in the case of boys, whether or not to circumcise. In addition to being the most common surgery for males in the U.S., circumcision has been practiced in various cultures for centuries. Yet when it comes to the health and best interest of your newborn, is circumcision the way to go?
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Local Foreskin Problems
Dr. Scoen is the local foreskin problem
Dr. Schoen's logic goes like this: A body part will never cease to function normally or get infected if we just cut it off!
I suppose we should all be grateful to good doctor doesn't want to apply this logic to females, or to males with the exception of the foreskin.
Now, notice carefully his wording about how many intact males "will be circumcised later in life." Not "will need to be." Funny then, isn't it, that only one in 16,000 (less than one tenth of one tenth of once percent) of men ever need a circumcision later in life, in Finland. http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/virtual_journal/v1n2.html
What's so special about Finland? Nothing, except that doctors there don't demonize the foreskin, forcefully retract it causing damage, take any opportunity to cut it off, fail to employ conservative treatments, and spread misinformation to parents.
- GenitalIntegrityPolicy August 7, 2008 9:26PM
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