Revelation

[kimkabob5]

I haven't been posting here in a while. I apologize not only for my absence but my two-posting pontification.

I FINALLY GOT IT.

Watching medical procedures that involves blood and cutting flesh always made me feel sick and faint. But yet I could watch a video on the internet of a newborn baby having a knife slice into his body and yes, I felt outraged, but it didn't make me feel faint.

Suddenly, when I was at the library, and I was reading the book about circumcision that described in detail exactly how and what they did I almost passed out. It hit me. After all of these years of being an intactivst, it hit my vagus nerve.

In other words, it finally hit my body and not just my brain.

I don't know what to do from here. Now it's almost like I need to take a step back from it so I don't feel sick, but at the same time I need to use that sick feeling to save more babies from the knife.

Has this happened to any of you? Going from the head and heart straight into the gut? Years later? Wanting to puke? Feeling faint?

But why wouldn't we feel that way? Wouldn't we feel that way about a knife being taken to ANY part of a newborn baby's body? How have we, as a society, become so brainwashed? It's not right to sink a knife into anyone without medical necessity and certainly not without massive painkilling drugs....unless it is a newborn male and it's his penis we are talking about.
Why is this happening? How can anyone justify cutting the soft, silky flesh of a brand new human being?

I know I am preaching to the choir here. Thanks for letting me vent.

[PuppyFluffer]

I don't remember when i first learned what circumcision was, I was a young teen maybe. I had a very strong reaction that this was WRONG!

I grew up in a very bodily and sexually uptight home. We just didn't discuss these things. I felt I was very naive about all things sexual and as a curious young adult, I found some interesting books along the way.

I remember being about 21 or 22 and finding the book "The Joy on Uncircumcising" in a bookstore and it introduced me to the idea of foreskin restoration. I just felt very sad that anyone had to even consider this.

I fully understand what you are speaking of. There are days that moderating this forum is hard. Some times I do have to step back and ask my mod sisters to skin over things because i need a break.

It's hard to "get it" and read about it daily.

There is a huge disconnect in the minds of people who circ. I pray that day by day, that connection is made in them and that they understand the atrocity that circumcision is. It will have to stop one person at a time. And the educational efforts that people make do reach out to others. It's all about planting seeds.

I think the youth are really the key. They are interested. They are receptive.