Comments on peaceful parenting: Cut vs. Intact Outcome Statistics

I agree with the reader who said 100% of circumcis...

2011-10-30T16:28:13.837-04:00

I agree with the reader who said 100% of circumcised boys will experience adverse effects. They will all become men who will not experience full sensation during intercourse and whose penises will never function as nature intended. A great post on the functions of foreskin found here:

http://www.drmomma.org/2009/09/functions-of-foreskin-purposes-of.html

I honestly cannot

I just have to say as a mother of 4 boys all circu...

2011-10-30T15:21:41.804-04:00

I just have to say as a mother of 4 boys all circumcised I wish I would have known then what I know now. I just did it because I thought it was no big deal and that's just what we should do here in the US. Thankfully all the boys are okay but they under went a needless procedure and painful. I am a labor and delivery nurse now and strongly encourage my patients to seek out education and not

i have learned a lot from reading all of the posts...

2011-09-21T22:59:08.469-04:00

i have learned a lot from reading all of the posts here as well as all of the statistics. i dont have kids of my own yet, but now firmly stand with the belief that there my boys will never be circumsized. My younger brother(adopted at 9 months) was never circumsized. it was a topic of discussion for a long time between my parents and i(im 14 yrs older). my mom and i stood firm that there was no

@Prizill - you're not the only one! I've f...

2011-07-29T23:03:18.419-04:00

@Prizill - you're not the only one! I've found a lot of support and people in our same shoes at some of the groups and pages listed from this site:

http://www.drmomma.org/2010/05/i-circumcised-my-son-healing-from.html

We have two sons who were circumcised before we knew better, and two who are intact. So I know your feeling too well...

I am so happy for all of you who learned these thi...

2011-07-29T16:11:45.709-04:00

I am so happy for all of you who learned these things before your sons were born. I have 2 boys and I had them circ'ed, truly believing at the time it was the best thing. I live with agonizing guilt over it. If I have more boys they will be spared, and maybe I can help others along the way learn more about this. Thanks for sharing!

Thankyou for posting this information. We have a t...

2011-07-11T19:32:10.852-04:00

Thankyou for posting this information. We have a three year old daughter and are planning on trying for our second in a year. I know that if we have a boy i do NOT want to have him circumcised but my husband still believes that there are benefits to circumcision and that getting circumcised later in life would be more painful.
Jessi

I couldn't agree more with the fact that circu...

2011-06-02T03:06:10.738-04:00

I couldn't agree more with the fact that circumcision doesn't need to be done. Proud mama of a whole baby here too!

Great information...I'm sure if parents really...

2011-03-22T13:43:55.273-04:00

Great information...I'm sure if parents really knew the dangers they would keep their boys intact. Not to mention the way it must effect Sex in America. So glad my Son is intact.

I am so happy that I stuck to my guns. My husband ...

2011-03-21T00:14:51.701-04:00

I am so happy that I stuck to my guns. My husband wanted our son circumsised and I didn't. I couldn't even think of putting him through that pain right after going through the stress of being born, pushed through the canel and being out in the world instead of warm and snug inside me, having to work for his food instead of it getting directly to him. I asked about it at my dr appts, read

I'm so glad that we left our sons intact. Our ...

2011-03-20T22:17:38.283-04:00

I'm so glad that we left our sons intact. Our midwife told us that there was no medical reason to perform circumcision, and we followed her advice. After reading your post and hearing other information, I feel so very confirmed in that decision.

Interesting read from Glick's "Marked in ...

2010-09-09T12:08:24.185-04:00

Interesting read from Glick's "Marked in Your Flesh": "that the Lord's covenant and his two definitive promises (prodigious reproduction success and a lavish land grant (all of Canaanite land) appears first in Genesis 15, an earlier J text but with one crucial difference, there is no mention of circumcision." "To seal this covenant the only requirement is that

Hi! Thanks for posting this. I'm trying to c...

2010-02-19T15:37:56.013-05:00

Hi! Thanks for posting this. I'm trying to convince a friend not to circ his son, and I'd love to send this to him, but he'll want to know the source/s. Can you add that to your post somewhere?

This is a very straightforward way to put it - tha...

2010-01-30T21:45:48.690-05:00

This is a very straightforward way to put it - thank you!! I have been exploring the circ issue myself on my own blog a lot over the past few months... it is such a deep issue, and it is unfortunate that people tend to brush it off as "no big deal." I wonder if seeing this list of stats would change some minds... I hope it would!

To Alyssa G - not having enough skin to circ

My son is not circumcised. The skin never "pu...

2010-01-29T22:47:48.711-05:00

My son is not circumcised. The skin never "pulled back" as they said it would. When he was 12 yrs. old he began experiencing pain because the skin was too tight. I brought him to a pediatrician who recommended that he be circumcised immediately. I was appalled and refused to believe that there were no other options. I found a pediatric urologist in our area who prescribed a topical

This post omits things for which we have good anec...

2010-01-24T21:09:16.589-05:00

This post omits things for which we have good anecdotal evidence but not data: a penis damaged for life by scar tissue or glans damage; difficulty with adult erection because of too little skin; difficulty enjoying intercourse, especially after age 40.

Circumcised men have a tendency to thrust harder, faster, and deeper during intercourse. This detracts from the women's pleasure,

Alyssa G: I know how you feel. An acquaintance of ...

2010-01-24T00:27:06.756-05:00

Alyssa G: I know how you feel. An acquaintance of mine decided to get her adopted son circumcised recently - I think the surgery was just done yesterday. Even after I asked her to read the literature about this issue on 'peaceful parenting', she still went through with it. The poor little guy is 32 months - just a few days older than my little girl - I feel horrible for him!

Sarah - keep up the good work! Every single baby s...

2010-01-22T19:45:37.663-05:00

Sarah - keep up the good work! Every single baby saved is a human life changed - and generations that are spared from such atrocities continuing. You touch more lives than you probably realize. If you are not already in the peaceful parenting group on FB, you can find many other parents in your shoes there. (Link on the side of this page). Or, if you'd like me to introduce you (in online

Emmalie and Aidan's Mom - Yes, this is what a ...

2010-01-22T19:14:53.355-05:00

Emmalie and Aidan's Mom -
Yes, this is what a typical cut and intact newborn's penis looks like. There is nothing unusual about the circumcised penis in this photo - except that it shows the genital mutilation of a human baby in close detail. And I'm not sure this could ever be considered anything but 'bad'. :(

What a great post. Is that truly what a baby who ...

2010-01-22T17:58:17.775-05:00

What a great post. Is that truly what a baby who is circumcised looks like right after? All of them or is that just a bad one? I didn't have the heart to look at pictures or video of procedures. We knew way ahead of time that we would not be getting this done. My Mom is the only one who pushed for it because "uncircumcised penises look gross". I told her I had yet to see a

http://pharmtips.com/2008/11/27/dispelling-myths-a...

2010-01-22T17:24:38.465-05:00

http://pharmtips.com/2008/11/27/dispelling-myths-about-circumcision/

http://www.sexasnatureintendedit.com/

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Blissfully intact and a PROUD intactivist!

Twitter: @light_peak

DrMomma: I am glad to hear that the rate has dropp...

2010-01-22T16:15:50.273-05:00

DrMomma: I am glad to hear that the rate has dropped. I am trying to educate more people, but it's so hard to change minds. Most people's reason for doing it is so that their baby won't be "different" and that is just plain sad. Evolution would tell me that if there was something "wrong" about a part or if it wasn't needed, it wouldn't still be there.

Just an update on my previous comment -- that post...

2010-01-22T08:12:50.061-05:00

Just an update on my previous comment -- that post now has the list of AAP doctors (with their emails) who are currently considering whether or not to recommend routine infant (male) circumcision. Please email them now -- after they make the decision, it will be too late! Feel free to copy & paste the names & addresses from my blog into this post or another post.

http://wp.me/

Strwberryjoy - Thank you for the encouragement. Yo...

2010-01-21T14:58:02.381-05:00

Strwberryjoy - Thank you for the encouragement. Your comment made me smile because we have oodles here on the subject of circumcision - more, in fact, than any other general parenting site and this sometimes gets people 'upset'... Some don't like coming face to face with MGM in the U.S.

If you go up to the search feature on the left hand side of this blog, you can type in

Sarah - the rate of MGM in the Midwest has dropped...

2010-01-21T13:18:43.432-05:00

Sarah - the rate of MGM in the Midwest has dropped (thankfully) to 65% as of 2008 (according to national hospital surgery statistics and is likely lower as we enter 2010). It continues to fall as parents become educated prior to their son's birth. However 6-7 out of 10 babies being cut up at birth is still WAY too high. Thank you for protecting your own son. We need MUCH activism in the

Thanks for the post! I'd like to see more stu...

2010-01-21T13:00:20.678-05:00

Thanks for the post! I'd like to see more stuff on here about circumcision. People still think it's going to lower STDS and UTI rates to circumcise....sigh.