Adults damaged as children

[Dave2GA]

Recently in either one of the threads here at MDC or elsewhere in a recommended site a mom said that her husband had had a portion of the tip of his penis cut off in a newborn circ and then had it sewed back on with less than optimal results. I would appreciate it if anyone could provide me with the reference for that entry. Also, I am most interested in speaking with anyone whose spouse, child, acquaintance, or self was damaged by a childhood circumcision beyond the normal damaged caused by it. There is almost no medical literature on on the long term physical and psychological results of such damage and I would like to get an article published on that issue (of course, not identifying anyone by name). You may PM me with such information. Thanks.

[SleeplessMommy]

Thank you Dave! Our favorite lawyer!

[phatchristy]

There was that thread I remembered that someone had on their blog...

I think it was James. There was a man who had a blog, and had seen James' blog and wrote to him, he had his glans severed as an infant. Then, the doctor (who was apparently unable to reconnect it), resewed the foreskin back together so that at least his penis resembled a somewhat normal intact one (though he was not retractable).

The guys story was called "my glansless life with phimosis" something like that. That's one other one I remember.

[titania8]

Originally Posted by phatchristy

There was that thread I remembered that someone had on their blog...

I think it was James. There was a man who had a blog, and had seen James' blog and wrote to him, he had his glans severed as an infant. Then, the doctor (who was apparently unable to reconnect it), resewed the foreskin back together so that at least his penis resembled a somewhat normal intact one (though he was not retractable).

The guys story was called "my glansless life with phimosis" something like that. That's one other one I remember.

that is horrific.

[SleeplessMommy]

I hope this gentleman is going to be interviewed:

Anti-circumcision activist on campus discusses his past
By: Katie Pomerantz
http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/arti...cision_act.php

Daniel Strandjord stands outside through rain and shine to send his anti-circumcision aim to the University community.

He stands on the corner of 58th and Ellis day after day, spreading his word. With his mismatched plaids and tweeds, grizzled beard, and face ridden with the sage lines of experience, he closely fits the prototype of a University of Chicago professor. Although he too shares the desire to teach, his large sign reading, “The forefront of medicine should know that foreskin is not a birth defect,” his bright T-shirt with the caption “Circumcision—I didn’t give my consent!” and his stacks of informational flyers divulge that this man is no prototypical professor, but rather an antinomian with a very atypical lesson to teach.

Daniel Strandjord aims to put an end to the routine circumcision of baby boys, called RIC (Routine Infant Circumcision). Although more infrequently in the frigid winter months, Strandjord appears on weekdays, from morning until afternoon, outside the Barnes and Noble on Ellis. Strandjord hopes to target the University and Hyde Park community, but particularly those affiliated with the University of Chicago hospital. Strandjord says he “expects better” of the Hospital, which claims to be at the “forefront of modern medicine” Strandjord views this claim as completely erroneous, since the fact that the hospital still performs RIC.

Strandjord’s choice to confront the University of Chicago Hospital is not an arbitrary one. His mother and father met while studying at the Law School and Medical School, respectively. They raised him in Hyde Park where he attended the Lab School until college. Now he is a Hyde Park resident once again, and it is no wonder that Strandjord speaks of the school as “my University.” Strandjord’s father renders his connection to the University, particularly to the Hospital, even deeper. A professor of radiology at the University of Chicago Medical School, his father was the recipient of the McClintock Award for Outstanding Teaching. He has several awards and a student loan fund named in his honor. His picture even decorates one of the hospital’s hall walls.

One might think it odd that Strandjord zealously endeavors to protest the conduct of the very hospital that so revered his own father. But the intricacies of Strandjord’s personal life help explicate the questionable aspects of his pursuit. Strandjord himself was a victim of a botched circumcision, which occurred at the University of Chicago Hospital. The event remained unspoken of throughout his childhood. Strandjord’s father died when he was 15 without ever having acknowledged the complication.

This may explain Strandjord’s fervent quest for the excision of circumcision on a personal level—why he has chosen to save not the whales or the children, but the foreskin. However, he emphasized that his own negative experience with circumcision is not the sole reason behind his current mission. Although rage and frustration with his own circumstances with his parents, and by proxy, the medical school that honored his father, may partially motivate his aims, Strandjord does not focus on these issues in communicating his message. He believes that the University is unwilling to publicly defend R.I.C., and “if that is the case,” he says, “then the U of C should lead by example and stop RIC The U of C should publicly challenge other hospitals to either defend RIC. .....

If you look at this site, there is a young man who cut off his own genitalia "m@le nullific@tion" When asked way he did it, he said that after a surgical procedure in his teens, he had no sensation anyway. I wonder if that was a circ related surgery?

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[dnr3301]

Originally Posted by Dave2GA

Also, I am most interested in speaking with anyone whose spouse, child, acquaintance, or self was damaged by a childhood circumcision beyond the normal damaged caused by it.

bolding mine.

thank you thank you thank you for putting it like that! All circumcision damages, even when done exactly as planned, with no unforeseen complications, and it's nice to see it acknowledged so clearly.