forced circ???

[spirit19]

NAK

ok so a friend told me that she knew a woman who left her son intact but latter "had" 2 have him circ because of "some problem w/his penis"

What would be that bad???

TIA....want to be sure I am on my game....please also post your fave books that are pro intact

[Quirky]

More than likely, her ds was just fine and she ran into an ignorant doctor who recommended circ for some bogus reason like the foreskin got irritated ("infected"), he had a UTI, or his foreskin was still attached to his glans beyond the age of 3. None of which is a valid reason to circ.

Check out the Fleiss articles from Mothering in 1997 that are linked at the top of this forum...Fleiss' book What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Circumcision is good (but much longer ). Also, pick up a copy of the most recent issue of Mothering magazine for two good articles on circ.

[splash]

I have a friend with twins... one is intact, one isn't.
She was adamantly opposed to circ'ing them, but one of them had hypospadias... she even tried to go without circ'ing him, and there were problems. I don't know the whole of them but I know this girl well enough to know that she would not have done it if it were not truly warranted. Her family then pressured her to circ the other twin, and she went haywire. Needless to say only one boy is circ'ed, any future boys will be intact, and the boys, at 5, don't seem to care that their penises are different.
So, sometimes there are medical reasons... but I think that they would show up within the first few days of life... so why someone would do it later (though you didn't say how much later) is beyond me.

[Frankly Speaking]

Hypospadius is a different case. Many boys with hypospadius only have a partial foreskin and that can be almost none at all. Doctors who are not up to date use the foreskin as donor material in repairing the hypospadius but there is a newer procedure that does not use the foreskin. If there is enough foreskin, it can be surgically restored to appear and function normally at the same time the hypospadius repair is done.



Frank

[CluckyInAZ]

nak
my cousin has two boys who were intact, but after a few years of retracting and cleaning, their reoccurant infections she was causing were cited as a reason they needed to be circed, so now they are. This was probably a big factor in her sister's (my other cousin) choice to RIC her son.