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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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The Anti-Circs are Living in the Past
"No cutting" Yeah, right.
Morris: "if applied 2 hours before the op" - and just how many babies are prepped two hours before their circumcision? - "means no pain during or after, since the effect lasts 6 hours."
Pain occurs whenever urine gets in the wound until it is healed, every few hours for a period of one to two weeks.
"This is often used with the Plastibell - a plastic device that slips on to the head of the peni.s, and the foreskin is then tied. The foreskin and plastic device drops off after a few days. The foreskin is not cut off the shaft of the penis."
Strictly speaking this is true, since the foreskin only covers the shaft of the penis during an erection, in someone old enough for it to have separated from the glans, but if Prof. Morris is trying to suggest that there is less pain because the foreskin is not cut, he is being less than candid. The foreskin is clamped. A slit is made in the dorsal side of the foreskin.The foreskin is sliced off. The surgeon trims as much tissue as possible.
- Hugh7
August 26, 2008 9:38PM
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gangrene is painful
Hugh, you might not know if you haven't tried it, but tying off a highly sensitive part of the body is extremely painful. Cutting off the blood supply affects the nerves, as well, and they react strongly.
Morris is being shamefully untruthful, again.
- geskoi
August 26, 2008 10:18PM
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