Male Genital Mutilation (MGM)

When it comes to the human body if we didn't need it,
we wouldn't have it.

If you believe in the grand creator or not I doubt you would find many arguing that our bodies are perfect as they are. We come into this world with everything we need.

I am a mother.

And like all mothers we will tell you the birth of our children are up there with the most monumental events of our lives. Profound, un equalled in importance and in the depths in the wells of love.

Here in the western world Mothers of daughters do not come face to face with the consideration of genital mutilation and in fact it is illegal.
But in countries where it is practiced several health and human-rights organisations, such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF, are acting to increase awareness of this problem, decrease cultural acceptance and encourage practitioners to abandon the practice.

So..

The question has to be asked...

Why do so many mothers hand over their baby boys for genital mutilation, commonly known as circumcision. ?

 Firstly lets look at how we speak about it.
 
Language.

Language of the debate is skewed toward the pro-circumcision side. Using the term "uncircumcised" heavily leads to the belief that this is the “unnatural” state, or the exception to t­he rule. We do not often hear the words "natural," "full length" or "intact" referring to an uncircumcised penis. A boys penis is generally either circumcised or un-circumcised. This wording needs to be changed to in tact, natural, full length.





Secondly let's look at basic biology

The Foreskin.
 
The foreskin has up to 20 000 nerve endings in it. When sliced off this leaves exposed the head of the penis that has only around 4 000 nerve endings. A penis left in tact and in its natural state has more sensitivity than a woman's clitoris. A penis subjected to mutilation has had its sensitivity lowered by 80 %.
Fact is when a boys penis is circumcised, it loses its protective encasing and becomes desensitized over the years from its natural state. It basically obtains a certain state of numbness.

So what history lies behind MGM (male genital mutilation)?

Business, ownership and wealth with the promise of elitism.

“According to the Book of Genesis in the Torah, G­od made a covenant with Abraham (a Jewish patriarch) in which Abraham and his descendants would be given great lands, riches and success, but with one catch: Abraham, his descendants and any slaves purchased or born in his household must be circumcised by the eighth day of life. Not doing so would mean that the uncircumcised male would be separate from his people and live without the favour of God. The Jews have held up their end of the deal. Rates of circumcision remain high in Jewish men: about 98 percent of American Jews are circumcised.”

The prophet Muhammad was circumcised due to traditions passed down from Abraham's son to a slave woman ( Ishmael ) whom is considered the forefather of the modern-day Arab people. Although when Muhammad's teachings were collected into the Quran there was no directive regarding circumcision you will find most Muslims circumcise their sons just because Muhammad himself was.

Today, almost two out of every three circumcised men on the planet are Muslim.

Mainly viewed as an Islamic practice religions such as Buddhism or Hinduism don't have a stance on circumcision and most Christian sects don't endorse circumcision, leaving the choice up to the family.

In fact the Catholic church has a strong moral statement on amputations, mutilations, and sterilisations. Circumcision falls under both amputation and mutilation, so it is clearly covered by this policy. Catholics generally are required to respect bodily integrity.Lack of respect for bodily integrity is viewed as a violation of the Fifth Commandment, Thou shalt not kill.

Circumcision of children for “non-medical reasons” is banned in Denmark and Sweden yet boys may consent to the procedures from the age of 12.

Stating that circumcision violates the child's right to bodily integrity, a German court ruled on June 28^th 2012 it illegal for baby boys to be circumcised for religious reasons.

In Australia "Cosmetic" circumcision is banned in public hospitals in Australia, although permitted in private ones. Figures from Medicare show that circumcision incidence in Australia continues to decline and is now at the lowest rate since records were kept. Between Financial Year 2009/10 and 2015/16 the number of circumcisions of boys under 6 months of age fell from 20,246 to 14,880 – a decline of about 30%.

In 2013 the Council of Europe adopted a resolution questioning the practice of circumcising young boys and several EU member states are debating bans on religious circumcision

Whilst the Council on Scientific Affairs of the American Medical Association now defines neonatal circumcision as a "non-therapeutic" surgical procedure.

Many Western jurisdictions have only recently banned the genital mutilation of girls as there was previously no history of the procedure occurring there. Increased immigration from Africa and the Middle East has forced governments to clarify existing legislation or introduce new laws explicitly banning FGM, and it is now restricted across the EU, in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States:

As stated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church at paragraph 2297 states in part:

"Except when performed for strictly therapeutic medical reasons, directly intended amputations, mutilations, and sterilizations performed on innocent persons are against the moral law.

Christians have, with very few exceptions, never practiced circumcision.

 

Nevertheless, secular thought introduced the practice in the modern United States, and American Christians absorbed it. Christians in other lands are often shocked to hear that some American Christians routinely circumcise their boys. They view the practice as a lack of respect for God's wise creation and a clear violation of basic medical ethics.

This leads me to ask why in my 27 years of being sexually active have I consistently found many men of christian back grounds circumcised ?

Recently when speaking with my lover here in Costa Rica he told me with pride how his mother made the decision for himself and his brother not to be circumcised as it would hinder their sensitivity during sex. I just want to hug that woman !

He also told me that he was the one that looked different amoungst his school friends growing up with most of the boys around him having had their foreskins removed as babies.

SO, Why, indeed ?

And I have heard it over and over again.

“The real reason I wanted to do it was so our son wouldn't look different in the locker room when he got older”
Most American and parents choose newborn circumcision in spite of medical advice; in fact, for many it's a no-brainer. "My husband and I probably spent only 10 minutes discussing it," says one mother of Concord, Massachusetts, of their son's circumcision last year. "We didn't want our boy to look different from his dad."
 

 

Let's just pause for a moment......

 

Isn't this the problem we are now having in female populations of the west where girls and women are wanting to look like porn stars and having their inner and outer labia's cosmetically altered?  “So they look the same as someone else”
I mean come on guys. Would you do it to your daughter? So she had a good chance of looking like the pixelated images in porn movies?

I would go out on a limb and say NO you would not.
 Another woman, of Brooklyn, New York, when delivered her boy recently and had him circumcised,  She states. "I went to high school in Marin County, California, in the early '90s. My friend's boyfriend was uncircumcised, and it was a topic of conversation among the girls," she recalls. "But if I lived in a place where 80 percent of the boys were not circumcised, then I probably wouldn't do it.”
From about 1980 to 1999, 65 percent of infants born in the United States were circumcised; in 2005, that percentage had dropped to 56, where it has generally held steady since. Rates of circumcision vary across the regions of the United States: Three out of four Midwestern babies are circumcised, while only slightly more than half of all Southern babies are cut [source: Merrill]. Only about 21 percent of infants are circumcised in the West.

Hispanics are less likely than non-Hispanics to circumcise male children. The greater concentration of Hispanics in the West over the last 30 years is believed to be responsible for the regional decline in circumcision.

As with various patent medicines and medical beliefs of the past, circumcision was seen by some as a cure for a range of ailments, from impotence to homosexuality.
The health benefits of circumcision are overstated. Circumcision may drastically cut down on HIV and other STD infection rates, but so do safe sex practices.
Also in the past the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) said that circumcising newborn boys did have potential medical advantages, primarily related to preventing urinary tract infections (UTIs). But by 1999, the AAP had formed a task force on circumcision that decided the procedure shouldn't be routinely recommended. The task force based this policy on 40 years of studies of both circumcised and uncircumcised boys, and it concluded the following:

• Problems with the penis, such as irritation, can occur with or without circumcision.
• With proper care, there is no difference in hygiene.
• There may or may not be differences in sexual sensation in adult men.
• There is an increased risk for a UTI in uncircumcised males, especially babies under 1 year. However, the risk for a UTI is still less than 1 percent.
• Newborn circumcision provides some protection from penile cancer, which only occurs in the foreskin. However, the risk of this cancer is very low in developed countries such as the United States.
  

"We also looked at whether being circumcised prevents HIV in a man's partner," says Jack Swanson, MD, a pediatrician in Ames, Iowa, and a task force member. "There may be a slight benefit to being circumcised, but the statistics were inconclusive. There weren't any medical reasons that were convincing enough for us to say that all boy babies should be circumcised," he says.

 

At the end of the day no major medical organization recommends circumcision. As the chief Dutch medical organization KNMG has concluded doctors should "actively and insistently inform parents who are considering the procedure of the absence of medical benefits and the danger of complications."

With all of this talk about cutting it off, it's time I shared with you what it s all about.

Uncircumcised men have stronger sexual sensations because the tip of the penis is not constantly exposed to the everyday elements; The ability of the uncircumcised penis to slide within its own sleeve provides for "nonabrasive" sexual intercourse and masturbation.
.Men lose a degree of sexual pleasure and stimulation when he foreskin is removed. Many unique nerve endings -- found only in the foreskin -- are lost forever. As mentioned above,
20 000 in fact.
The foreskin, also known as the prepuce is a complex structure with multiple anatomical and physiological functions. It is specialised tissue, composing of skin, mucosa, nerves, blood vessels, and muscle fibres.
A frenulum is found on the ventral side of the penis. The frenulum serves to tether a movable structure to a non-movable structure. The penile frenulum returns the foreskin to its normal protective forward position. Most men report that the frenulum is highly erogenous tissue.
The prepuce covers and protects the glans penis and urinary meatus. In most males, the prepuce protects the sterile urinary tract environment in infancy and maintains the moistness — beneficial to good health — of the mucosal surface of the glans penis throughout life.
Several writers have commented on the sensitivity of the prepuce. Winkelmann (1956) wrote, “…it is a region of great sensitivity and possessed of an abundant nerve supply, and later (1959) identified the prepuce as a specific erogenous zone. Falliers (1970) noted the “sensory pleasure associated with tactile stimulation of the foreskin.”
A landmark study by Sorrells et al. (2007) of the fine-touch sensitivity of the penis finds that the areas most sensitive to fine touch are on the foreskin.
The presence of the prepuce tends to protect the corona of the glans penis from direct stimulation, helps to prevent premature ejaculation and contributes to female satisfaction.

Circumcision, therefore, amputates the most sensitive areas of the penis.

^{And from a woman's point of view that is a damn shame.}

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