Everywhere and over and over again you read the same stupid myths and lies about circumcision on the Internet. Therefore, I have summarized the most important of them in my blog and written the facts about it. See the latest blog post:
(I hope Google Translate doesn't make a mess of it. 😉)
I certainly don't know all the myths about circumcision. Therefore, if you know other myths about circumcision, I'd like to add them. Please let me know about such additions via the comment function or the contact form. Or here at HealthUnlocked.
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i think it has been scientifically proven that circumcision is a favorable decision in many ways. it cuts aids transmission and much money from various charities and wealthy persons around the world has been put forward to just that in areas of the world where aids cases are highest. also proven to cut down on various other stds that affect both males and thier sexual partners. aside from keeping the penis cleaner unless you are washing your penis 24 hours a day.how could one believe that a piece of skin covering your glans all day every day not cause added bacteria .in addition to cleanliness and disease there are a myriad of other urological issued that are corrected by circumcision.
But 95% of what you write are exactly the myths I question in my blog post. For example, the life-threatening half-truths about HIV. It is really sad that these lies are spread over and over again and that there are people who still believe them. This plays into the hands of the Itact activists. Let's stick to facts, please.
How do your "personal experiences" lead you to believe circumcision reduces AIDS and other STDs? If one is truly worried about those issues, staying with one partner would be most effective. Also, in your post, you mention it is scientifically proven, then you claim it is based on your own personal beliefs and experiences. Which is it?
also i see that most of the members or contributors are from countries where circumcision is far from widespread which may have something to do with a general lack of experience with circumcision.
Very sad when you wear out the truth in this way. Please have a look at the studies of the WHO on HIV and circumcision... The wrong recommendations abut HIV can end deadly.
Hey Devin, I looked at your information and have something to add. I think the most important part of the discussion is consent of the person being circumcised. I live in the US where routine infant circumcision is pushed on parents by providers, family members, and community peer groups. One of the arguments is that babies will not remember it or will not feel pain. It’s horrific to me. The procedure is losing popularity here though. None of the men in my family are circumcised.
Another issue I have found widely in the US is that healthcare providers do not know how to properly care for intact boys or men. They are trained to believe that the foreskin should be retractable from birth and they are trained to retract babies at well checks. They’re not open to proper care information. Many boys foreskins are ripped and injured due to this. It can cause adhesions, pain, scar tissue. They cannot even properly diagnose or treat a simple yeast infection.
Thank you for this information. I agree that everyone should decide for themselves. But I will not include these two questions in my blog. For two reasons:
1) The problems in the US are not my focus. I am from Europe and the blog is written in German.
2.) I don't want to counter the extremely toxic debate about circumcision here in Central Europe with more legal and political statements, but with medical and practical facts.
I agree with you there. The idea of some circumcised people that a foreskin should/can always be worn retracted is of course bullshit. My own foreskin doesn't stay back voluntarily for 2min when I'm soft.
You are also right on the second point. It is natural and normal that the foreskin can only be retracted from the age of 6 to 10. Before that, it leads to injuries if you do it. All boys have phimosis at a certain age. This is also normal and not pathological. This natural infantile phimosis is only pathological if it does not disappear by the onset of puberty.
But as I said, that is a problem in the USA. Here in Germany, we have the opposite problem. In Central Europe, the problem is that doctors are overburdened with circumcision.
I have had enough of the lies and half-truths.
I am as tired of the lies and fairy tales of the circumcision advocates as I am of the opponents. I do not like the lies of the activists of both sides. That is why I question the myths of both sides. There will be no objective discussion between the fronts as long as such nonsense is spread. It is not only the Inact-activists who have to question themselves.
And this all I do as someone who is clearly pro circumcision.
The practice of retracting babies foreskins from birth, and at well checks, causes phimosis and circumcision an easy cure. Males who have their foreskin cut off as infants can never know what they lost anyway. Most learn to live with their diminished status or simply find it too hard to accept and find ways to claim that it is an improvement.
The totally fallacious claim about preventing HIV is the current fiction and, obviously, could only be relevant if you were going to be having unprotected sex with someone who is infectious anyway.
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