Why not? Like cliterodoctomy, male circumcision removes fuctional tissue that has been demonstrated to be filled with nerve endigs that are involved in sexual pleasure; like cliterodoctomy, it is extremely painful; like cliterodoctomy, it is unnecessary.
Now, no one knows if the clitoris is actually involved in female orgasm, and it has been postulated that it is the contraction of the pelvic and vaginal muscles that lead to orgasm in women, and not stimulatio of the clitoris.
I think most people - especially women - would tell you that the clitoris is quite heavily involved in inducing orgasm in women, to the point where you can distinguish between a vaginal (g-spot) and clitoral orgasm.
Incidentally, if you're a bi guy, you'll want to know this. And the ladies will want you to know it. You can thank me later.
As for HIV transmission, the study is contradictory and shows a very, very small decrease in the risk of transmission. And even if it does decrease the risk of transmission, wearing a condom is far more effective and less painful as a deterrrence than cutting off part of your genitalia. Again: the supposed "benefits" of circumciision are contradictory or so insignificant and easily obtainable by other means that undergoing a painul operation or obtaining them is just ridiculous.
Actually, there has just - in the last 5 weeks or so - been a fairly good study published which was all over the BBC and CNN about the significant decrease in HIV in circumcised males in Africa.
So now a medical association is an expert at ethics and jurisprudence? This is not a medical but rather a legal and philosophical issue. It is up to jurists and ethicists to decide this, not for doctors.
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Ethics of the equivalency of all before the law gives a ressonant no, and a medical association is only entitled to provide evidence for the benefits and risks of medical procedures, and then it's up for jusrists to determine the legality of it.
In most cases, an ethics review board will have a range of people - scientists, medical people, legal people and others - on hand to review this sort of thing. I speak as someone who regularly has to have his PhD study evaluated by the university's medical ethics committees; you can take my word as gospel.
There are no demostrated benefits, and the supposed ones can easily be obtained in a more efective and thorough way by other means.
But often they aren't, which is why so many guys end up getting the chop "for medical reasons" later in life. I have a friend in this group, whom we call "Knobrot" for that very reason.
However, I don't know any cut guys who've needed an amputation for medical reasons.
Funny that no other medical association in the World agrees with the AMA...
You mean in all the 5th world shitholes?
You mean how one study showed a minuscule devrease in transmission rates in Africa, when in reality wearing condom represents a much more effective presenvtive measure? You make this so easy for me...
Yeah... the reality, though, is that people are NOT wearing condoms, which is why HIV is such an issue. Should we try to give them an advantage by suggesting circumcision, or should we discourage it and leave even more AIDS orphans to starve than there already are?
You are presumably living in the 1st world; let me help you understand the 3rd world perspective, here.
Let's see. The Webster Concise Dictionary defines mutilation as:
Mutilate: To remove bodyparts through cutting; to excise by force.
So, yes, it does qualify as mutilation.
In which case, all surgery is mutilation. Round up all the surgeons and have them sent to the Court of Human RIghts in the Hague immediately.
As for harm, have you ever even weatched a circumcision? I have seen it once one video, and it is gruesome, horrible stuff. The baby screams it lungs out, his heart rate goes to 180 beats per minute, plasma levels of glucocorticoids, which are associated with stress, rise dramatically, and the infant then passes out into a comatose state that lasts up to three days.
That sounds like an average kid having a quick vaccination jab. Yes it's stressful, but I gotta tell you the bit about the coma seems a little OTT to me.
I have a mate who's a surgeon at a local government hospital, and he's never mentioned it, to be honest... I'll take your report with a pinch of salt unless you can link me to a reputable source, okay?
Did you even read what I wrote? I said that all other cultures that practice this mutilation besides the U.S are Fifth World shitholes.
Wow - won't our Israeli JUBbers appreciate that.
And you're right - that whole prosperous Persian Gulf/Saudi/Emirates/Bahrain region is so backward, even though they have all that oil. No electricity, cars, aircraft... nothing. I wonder how they survive.
Keep telling that to yourself! Lol! A guy cut off part of your genitalia at birth with a shrp scalpel. How demeaning!
What is wrong with you? It's not like our dicks don't work! We all do quite nicely, thanks very much, and don't feel demeaned at all. There is a lot more to each of us than the x-many iches of dick everyone gets so preoccupied with, and even when it comes to the dick there is no need to be concerned ofr us, because really, we're fine.
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Especially since I didn't bring up the term.
