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Helena Glass's avatar

thank you - definitely worthy of further research - specifically who and when the practice evolved...

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Sharon Ledbetter's avatar

Want to know a primary reason that makes sense of why American men are rated as the highest in child trafficking and pornography? I invite you to read a recently published book, "Please Don't Cut the Baby, by Marilyn Milos, the mother of the NOCIRC movement that she began in the 1980s, motivated by witnessing a circumcision as a student nurse and was told by the doctor doing the cutting that "there was no medical reason for this surgery." This book provides extensive information of how circumcision became an American Medical ritual, some religious history, along with an exact description of the medical procedure of how our little boys within days after their birth are mutilated by the surgery called circumcision. I was shocked to learn the procedure begins with stimulating an erection on the newborn and then details of the rest of the cutting procedure as soon as the erection is reached. In other words the first experience of our male's sensual arousal is immediately followed by excruciating genital pain all done to them legally without a second thought and considered normal. As a social psychologist it makes sense to me there is a perverse message in this considered social norm to our boys that become men that message is, it is OK to inflict brutal abuse on a child. Maylin's book can be ordered at intactamerica.org along with another book called, This Penis Business, that shares how the sensitive foreskins our newborn boys are harvested and sold to companies for facial creams, etc, etc, etc.

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