MEDICAL FRAUD and the criminal assault of boys
Male Genital Mutilation
Circumcision
"To make an informed choice, parents of all male infants should be given accurate and
unbiased information." - Circumcision Policy Statement (Male) - American Academy of Pediatrics - March 1, 1999"There is no medical reason for routine circumcision of infants." - Complete Medical Encyclopedia, 2003 Edition - Jerrold Leikin and Martin Lipsky - Random House Reference, New York
What Is Lost?
When a baby boy’s normal healthy foreskin is amputated,
this is what he will lose -- forever:
+1. The pleasures of his multifunctional natural foreskin, which comprises 50% or more of the mobile skin system of his penis. If unfolded and spread out flat, the average adult foreskin would measure more than 15 square inches (the size of a 3 x 5-inch index card). This highly specialized tissue normally covers the glans like an eyelid covers the eye, protecting it from abrasion, drying, callusing (keratinization), and contaminants of all kinds. The effects on male and female sexuality from the loss of the natural foreskin have never been studied.
*2. The pleasures of his ridged band. Recently discovered (1996), this half-inch wide band of soft, irregular, accordion-like corrugations is the most intensely innervated erogenous zone on the male body – controlling and triggering the male orgasm. The loss of this densely innervated, sexually reactive, and pleasure-producing foreskin tissue reduces the full range and intensity of sexuality – male and female.
*+3. The pleasures of his foreskin’s ‘gliding action’– the hallmark synergistic mechanical feature of the natural human penis. This non-abrasive gliding of the penis in and out of itself (evagination-invagination) when masturbating or when within another body facilitates smooth, easy, pleasurable movements for a man and his partner. Without this remarkable gliding action, sex as nature intended it is impossible, and the corona of the surgically altered penis malfunctions as a one-way valve, scraping natural lubricants out into the drying air and making artificial lubricants essential for mutually pleasurable intercourse. Male foreskin amputation makes normal sexual kinetics impossible.
*4. The pleasures of thousands of his coiled fine-touch mechanoreceptors called Meissner’s corpuscles, the single most important sensory component of the natural/intact penis, encapsulated Pacinian, Vater-Pacinian, Ruffini, and Golgi-Mazzoni corpuscles, Merkel’s tactile cells, nociceptors, and branches of the dorsal and perineal nerves. Altogether, between 10,000 and 20,000 specialized pleasure-producing nerve endings of many types, which can feel slight motion, pressure, stretch, subtle changes in temperature, and nuance in texture, are lost.
*5. The pleasures of his frenulum, the highly erogenous V-shaped web-like tethering structure on the underside of the glans that is frequently amputated along with the foreskin, or severed, either of which destroys its subtle and important mechanical function and its capacity for giving pleasure. The frenulum forms two sides of the area called the frenular delta – the most intensely innervated part of the ridged band.
6. The pleasures and functions of more than half of his temperature-responsive peripenic smooth muscle sheath called the dartos fascia.
7. The protection of his immunological defense system of his smooth mucosa of his inner foreskin. This produces both plasma cells that secrete immunoglobulin antibodies and antibacterial and antiviral proteins such as the pathogen-killing enzyme lysozyme.
8. The protection of lymphatic vessels, the loss of which reduces the lymph flow within that part of his body’s natural immune system.
9. The value of estrogen receptors – the biological/sexual purpose of which is not understood and needs further study.
*10. The value of his apocrine glands of his inner foreskin, which secrete pheromones – nature’s powerful, silent, invisible behavioral signals to potential sexual partners. We know the effect of their absence on human sexuality can be profound, but have never been studied.
11. The protection of his specialized epithelial Langerhans cells, a first-line element in his body’s natural immune system in a whole penis.
+12. The unknown value of the pink to red to dark purple natural coloration of his undamaged glans. The connective tissue which protectively fuses his virgin foreskin and glans together while his penis develops, is ripped apart during male foreskin amputation, wounding the glans and the foreskin remnant, leaving them raw and subject to infection, scarring, pitting, shrinkage, and eventual discoloration.
*+13. The pleasures of the full potential of his natural penis length and natural penis circumference because its double-layered wrapping of loose and usually overhanging foreskin is gone, making his partially amputated penis truncated and thinner than a full-sized natural penis.
*14. The value of several feet of blood vessels, including the frenular artery and branches of the dorsal artery. The loss of this rich vascularity interrupts normal blood flow to the shaft and glans of his penis, altering development of his penis and damaging its natural function.
*15. Every year boys lose their entire penises from foreskin amputation accidents and infections. Some are then ‘sexually reassigned’ by castration and ‘transgender surgery’ and told to live their lives as ‘females.’ The long-term effects of transgendering experiments are unknown but recent evidence indicates it can be psychologically devastating for the victim to live contrary to his natural sexual orientation.
16. Every year many boys lose their lives from the unreported and concealed complications of non-therapeutic, non-indicated, unnecessary foreskin amputation surgery; a fact the multi-billion-dollar-a-year male sexual mutilation industry in the US obscures and ignores.
17. By encoding violence on the brain, the infant’s emotional bonding with his mother is disrupted, delaying his social development.
18. Indications are that his innate sense of trust in intimate physical contact at this pre-language state of his development is inhibited or lost as a result of suffering such excruciating pain at this early age. In its place are instilled fear, confusion, and a sense of betrayal by his mother.
19. His natural self-confidence and hardiness, by forcing the newborn victim into a defensive psychological state of ‘learned helplessness’ or ‘acquired passivity’ to cope with the excruciating pain which he can neither fight nor flee. The trauma of being tied down and having the most sensitive part of his body ripped apart and then skinned alive will forever lower his pain threshold below that of intact boys and girls.
Contrary to pseudo-medical myth, the natural penis with its foreskin intact is not defective or dangerous and does not require urgent surgical correction. Through four thousand millennia of trial and error, Nature has perfected human sexuality as a physical collaboration between two exquisitely complimentary designs. The vagina was not designed to accommodate a dry, keratinized, and immobile penis. Forcibly amputating a man’s ridged band is a barbaric form of ‘neurological castration’ that will forever deny the abridged victim the capacity for experiencing many pleasure-producing sexual sensations. The lack of the mobile rolling-bearing gliding action of his natural foreskin system will forever decrease the range and intensity of sexual pleasure for a man and his female partners. To irreversibly alter and sexually disendow a man without provable, immediate therapeutic need and without his expressed and written permission is criminal assault–morally unjustifiable and cruel. This document provides a foundation of facts for a parent or patient being unethically urged or coerced to give ‘informed consent’ for this mutilating radical sexual surgery euphemistically called ‘male circumcision.’
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These nine items are irreplaceable. Their loss permanently reduces sexual pleasure and fulfillment of the victim. See www.cirp.org+
These four items can be partially recovered by non-surgical expansion of the existing foreskin remnant. See www.norm-socal.orgComplete documentation furnished on request. Compiled by Gary L. Harryman Gary@GaryHarryman.com 1/21/2004
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