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Originally Posted by Stevie
Her friend actually has a buried penis and has had many invasive exams in his short life due to his botched circ. His mother never told me about his issues until after I had brought my baby boy home from another state! That is how embarassed she was over her decision to circ, I did tell her that she needed to be telling other people about it, but she doesn't want her son to go through life with everyone knowing about his deformity. I also encouraged her to sue the doctor who botched him but she won't do that for the same reason.
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There is a secrecy that surrounds almost all of these cases that allows circumcision to continue. Parents are embarrassed that they allowed this to happen or are worried that everyone will know which will embarrass the child. It is a carefully guarded secret. In the 1980's, two boys lost their penises at Atlanta's Northside Hospital on the same day and same shift. Almost 20 years later, their names are still a closely guarded secret. 2 years ago, a friend in Utah heard a radio news story about a child who died from his circumcision. I searched every radio, television and newspaper website for 500 miles in every direction for information but there was none. A Godmother reported here that her Godson had died of an infection after suffering for almost 9 months. She was only given permission to post his story if she agreed to not give any names or location, hospital, etc. When these things happen, the insurance companies rush in and settle quickly with non-disclosure agreements so that the information doesn't get out.
Circumcision is a sacred cow that is protected at all costs. No one who has circumcised their child wants it known what they have done. They try to stop all discussion about it to hide what they have done. At other boards where debate is allowed, these people come there and try to shut the debate down. They accuse the intactivists of attacking them. They say that no one has the right to judge them. They assert their rights. In short, they do everything they can think of to stop all discussion of circumcision. We even see it here where no discussion of ritual circumcision is allowed.
All of these people have an investment in circumcision. The doctors/hospitals make over a billion dollars a year doing circumcisions. They are protecting their checking accounts. They also have allowed and participated in the disfigurement of millions of men and there is a collective guilt when there is any discussion of circumcision. They deny that guilt by continuing their bloody practice. The parents have made an irreversible decision for their child that has no merit and no benefit. They don't want that information to see the light of day and they just want the issue to go away so that their victims will never see it and will never ask "Why, Mom?"
For more than a hundred years, the truth was carefully hidden in dusty, musty medical texts in medical libraries where the consumer seldom ventured and with layers and layers of denial and misleading misinformation. Only in the past 10 years has truthful information become conviently available and the denial has become increasingly difficult to maintain. That denial is becoming increasingly nasty. There is an investment to protect and there are vast sums of money on the table. The perpetrators of this crime against mankind deny there are substantial amounts of money but their deeds lable them as liars. When North Carolina first stopped payment for Medicaid funded circumcisions, the medical industry was caught off guard. The legislature thought any outcry would come from Medicaid receipients and expected little. However, they were surprised by a quick and intense response by the medical industry lobbyists and the millions of dollars that flowed into the campaign fund coffers from the medical industry in just a few days. It was so intense that just 10 days later, the law was rescinded. However, it appears that doctors and politicians are cut from the same cloth and it appears that the politicians saw the opportunity for more gain from the medical industry and brought the legislation up the very next year. Apparently, the medical industry saw they were being blackmailed and refused to make the annual payment and the law passed.
Even when there are horrific outcomes, there is a strong need for denial. When Ryliegh McWillis died at Penticon Hospital in Vancouver, his mother insisted that if she has another son, she will circumcise him. If the second son survives, she will use him as an example that they were just unlucky with Ryliegh and that circumcision is a good thing. The doctors and lawyers warned her that "Ryliegh would be used as an example by the anti-circumcision cultists and radicals." Instead of facing the horror of what they had all done, they denied it by attacking those who would question them.
This is a culture of guilt and the denial will continue until generations after the last infant circumcision. Up until the 1920's, female circumcision was common in the US. That is something few people nowadays know because just as infant male circumcision is a closely guarded issue, female circumcision was also a closely guarded secret. Only now after more than 80 years when the vast majority of the victims are dead can we speak out against it. It will be the same with infant male circumcision. It is a sacred cow that must be protected.
Frank
I simply said that some parents choose to chop off a part of their new baby's penis. She got this horrified expression and said, "Why?" I said that there was no reason; that some people just liked it that way, and that our family does not nor will ever condone this practice.
What more can I do? Honestly, I think it is really important not to sugar-coat this, b/c our children (and IMO especially our sons) need to know that circumcision HAS TO STOP!
) she asked what was wrong with his penis. Up until that point she had only seen her baby brother's perfect intact penis.
