It is best that you did spare your child this barbaric practice.
By protecting your son against this sad and horrific practice, which does permenantly disfigure children and subject them to extreme and traumatic pain and agony, you have done the right thing.
He will be able to grow up with a whole and intact body, because you chose to protect his human rights as a person. I know people, do not listen at times. I have talked to other people about this topic, and some refuse to speak to me about it or discuss it with me, or act as though I am intruding into what should be "their" decision. I dont think it should be their decision to amputate healthy parts of their childs body. If someone held down an adult and without their consent started cutting off parts of their body, the perpetuator would be charged with a crime. Yet, we allow this very thing to be done to children, and some people seem to think its ok to mutilate and assault the body of a child.
I am circumcised, and i am VERY unhappy and upset about it. I hate it and wish it had never been done to me. I think the chance is far greater that your child will be happy that you left him intact instead of being genitally mutilated and having his body cut up without his consent. I dont have any freedom to get what I have lost back.
I know, from personal experience, that circumcision is a terribly cruel, disfiguring, harmful and traumatic practice. I am a victim of it, it was inflicted on me as an infant. Just learning that a part of my body, the most intimate part and most sensitive part, had been amputated, HURT me very badly. I have been very distraught and upset about and have cried about it. I have also experienced negative psychological effects which seem to be related to circumcision have and have actual memory of it.
I first heard about circumcision when I was 11 or so. I assumed when I had heard about it, that my parents would not have allowed such a thing to happen to me. I felt right away this was a wrong and an evil practice, and was and am appalled and dismayed that such a thing would be done to children. I finally found out the ugly truth months later, when doing more reading about it. The notion that someone had stolen this very private part of my body and mutilated it was shocking to me, I was devasted, it was like getting hit by a tonne of bricks. I still cry about it to this day. The body is sacred, and a person has a basic right to a whole body, and to not have parts of it cut off without their consent, or without an actual, present and current medical condition that severely threatens the health of the child and when there is no lesser invasive option available. Amputation of body parts must ONLY be a last option, to treat a truly severe present abnormal verifiable medical condition. The foreskinis not a disease but a totally normal and healthy part of the body. The body is normally in a healthy state, and does not need parts of it amputated that are healthy. All children are not born with a defective body, most are born with healthy bodies and do not need parts amputated from then. I am appalled at how paediatricians, some of them, in the US try to push this horrific and disfiguring procedure that destroys most of a mans sensitivity on vulnerable and defenceless children, when there are less invasive options avialable, and in most cases, any problem can be fixed without circumcision. It seems as though the medical profession tries to find any excuse it can to mutilate children, as if they actually want to cause the child a life of sensory deprivation and lost pleasure and joy, and even psychological harm and unpleasant memories, and want to torture and traumatise the child.
Since I was 7 or 8 (years before I knew what circumcision was), I seemed to have memories of circumcision itself, which include my arms and legs being unable to move, since they were strapped to a plastic restraining device. This comes with accompanying emotions and feelings that I find difficult to put into words, they are so extreme. it is a feeling of helplessness, mutilation, violation, suffering, I also get a choking and gasping for air sensation along with this. It is indescribable feeling of raw and brutal suffering. It is a terribly painful and traumatic experience, with pain like this, it fills your entire existance. It makes me very upset that children today are STILL being subjected to this torture! It is a terrible feeling, that ones human rights as a person have been ignored, as if one is not a person, it is very dehumanising. It makes one feel as though your feelings, comfort, human rights, dignity, and emotions have been ignored, disregarded and shown indifference. It must be a lot like a feeling of rape, even worse, since the most sensitive part of my body has been destroyed, stolen from me. It feels as though my human rights have been tossed into the garbage along with the most pleasure sensitive part of my body, a part I will never know and feelings I will never experience.
Prior to learning about circumcision at 11, I had a sense of mutilation, resentment and betrayal, which must have been coming from this deeply buried trauma from the event. I felt this against my parents, as if they had allowed something to happen to me. I knew that something had happened to me, that some terrible wrong or evil had been done to me, but I was not quite sure what it was. After I found out about what had happened to me, it all makes sense now. I also noticed, before I was 11, and thus this seems to show an authentic knowledge of the loss of sensory pleasure seperate from knowing about circumcision consciously (although I had massive subconscious and conscious awareness that something had happened, obviously, I just didnt know exactly what it was) and a pre-existing awareness or expectation of a certain level of pleasure, i seemed to notice that there was far less pleasure there and for some reason I was missing something. I became very frustrated, as there was some sort of apex of pleasure and joy, and the expectation to feel it, yet, it was not there. It was as if there was something beautiful and wonderous, that I was expecting, and all I got was, nothing. I cannot find words to describe the sense of frustration and even agony this caused. This for me, tosses the notion "they wont know what they are missing" into the garbage. I have felt defective in some way, before I knew what I was missing. Today, I still know that I should be able to reach some sort of level of pleasure, but can never get there. There does seem to be some sort of spiritual or psychological need for this pleasure, and when it is not there, it seems all sorts of things may go wrong psychologically. it is a terrible form of sensory deprivation, and a sensory castration, is what it is. I became very frustrated, and even depressed about it. Today I have very little senstitivity at all left, this is depressing to me.
I cannot stand the knowledge that today, innocent, defenceless and helpless infants still are being subjected to this violent mutilation, assault, torture and massive suffering that I was subjected to. I hope that people will wake up and finally realise that it is perverted, barbaric, cruel and brutal to mutilate the bodies of children.
You have made the right decision by allowing your child to remain intact and to keep his whole, natural body. He most likely, will be glad that you did. I wish I had been allowed to keep mine. There is no way now for the damage to me to be undone.
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I am just stunned at her remark. WHERE do people get the entitlement???
: because after that the dr gives anesthesia! I guess babies feel no pain until 4 days old..who comes up with this stuff!
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