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Circumcision
Circumcision is the removal of the foreskin or prepuce from the penis. The majority of circumcisions are done on religious or cultural grounds, while some are done for health reasons.
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Can you get circumcised when you are 11?
A person can have the prepuce amputated from the penis at any age, however they should keep in mind that circumcision has no known medical benefits. Circumcision caries with it serious risks of adverse outcomes including prolonged bleeding, infection, severe pain, and surgical error that can result in damage to the penis. For these reasons most physicians recommend against circumcision.
Circumcision can have long lasting consequences. Circumcision removes a normal part of the penis that functions to protect the glans of the penis. Removal of the foreskin can cause decreased sensitivity of the penis and decreased pleasure during sexual intercourse.
Circumcision is far less common now in the United States than it once was. During the 1970s and 1980, around 80% of male infants were circumcised in the United States. A study conducted in the United States from 2005-2007 found that circumcision rates had fallen to below 40% in most of the United States. In the western United States, fewer than 25% of infant males were circumcised in 2005-2007.
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Where can you go to get circumcised?
You should consult your pediatrician. He or she will be able to refer you to a physician who performs circumcisions.
However, you should keep in mind that circumcision has no known medical benefit, and it is not recommended by any major medical association. Like any surgery, circumcision has risks of adverse medical events including surgical error, severe pain, infection, and proloned bleeding. Anesthesia poses additional possible adverse events including problems maintaining ventilation of the lungs as well as heart rate and blood pressure. Circumcision also can decrease the sensitivity of the penis, causing decreased sexual pleasure once your son is an adult.
As circumcision is not a medically necessary procedure, it will not be covered by most health insurance. You will have to pay for the full cost yourself out of pocket. For circumcision with general anesthesia, you can expect to pay between $2000 and $3000.
Are most Argentinian penises circumcised?
Les then 20% of Argentinians have been circumcised.
World Health Organization figures (Which have been used to make some of these estimates) have to be looked at with caution though as they are a pro circumcision organization that has a reputation for distorting the prevalence of circumcision upwards. Odds are that the prevalence is much lower as there is no religious or cultural tradition related to circumcision in this country.
Are mothers stressed when boys get circumcised?
THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS
Excerpts from Questioning Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective
by Ronald Goldman, Ph.D.
"I had profound doubts about my decision [to circumcise]. But because open discussion of Brit Milah seems to be discouraged in the Jewish community, I experienced my doubts privately and without comfort. . . . Thus, a rite intended to inspire feelings of Jewish unity evoked in me a sense of loss and alienation."
"If a woman is made to distrust her most basic instinct to protect her newborn child, what feelings can she ever trust?"
"My tiny son and I sobbed our hearts out. . . . After everything I'd worked for, carrying and nurturing Joseph in the womb, having him at home against no small odds, keeping him by my side constantly since birth, nursing him whenever he needed closeness and nourishment-the circumcision was a horrible violation of all I felt we shared. I cried for days afterward."
"I have never heard such screams. . . . Will I ever know what scars this brings to your soul? . . . What is that new look I see in your eyes? I can see pain, a certain sadness, and a loss of trust."
"I've never even talked about this before-I thought I was the only one who worried about it."
"I heard him cry during the time they were circumcising him. The thing that is most disturbing to me is that I can still hear his cry. . . . It was an assault on him, and on some level it was an assault on me. . . . I will go to my grave hearing that horrible wail."
"The screams of my baby remain embedded in my bones and haunt my mind. . . . His cry sounded like he was being butchered. I lost my milk."
"I knew that this was a terrible mistake and that it was something that no one, especially newborn babies, should ever have to endure."
CIRCUMCISION IS A WOMEN'S ISSUE
• The maternal instincts and experiences of women uniquely qualify them for the important responsibility of caring for infants and protecting them from pain and harm.
• Research demonstrates that women are generally more sensitive than men to the needs and feelings of infants, and newborn infants recognize, prefer, and are more responsive to their mothers
• Generally, because they are not themselves circumcised, females are not subject to the personal psychological motivations of circumcised men to perpetuate the practice (e.g., "I want him to look like me").
• According to a recent study, circumcision can adversely affect female sexual enjoyment.
• Any adverse psychological consequences of circumcision on males may adversely affect male-female relationships.4
• Because of the prevalence of circumcision in the United States, some potential adverse psychological effects of circumcision on males (known/unknown) may have indirect adverse social effects on women.
• Mothers sign the majority of hospital circumcision consent forms.
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Where can you go to get circumcised in Miami?
If you don't have a doctor of your own, just phone a Miami hospital and they can give you some leads. Interview the doctor and don't be afraid to ask questions. If you want a Jewish ceremonial circumcision, look for or ask about a "mohel."
When is the right time to circumcise?
The eighth day of the boy's life (Genesis ch.17), if he is healthy enough.
Answer 2:There is no right time for the cutting of any childs genitals. The human body is the product of many many years of evolution and is equiped at bith with a prepuce that is stul fised to the Glans penis, The freskin protects the Glans penis from all kinds of harm as it does in the case of all mamals. No blood sacrifice is timely and the damaging of a child by a minor religion is certainly no guide. Go to the related link below (Circumcision: A Source of Jewish Pain byRonald Goldman) for a cleaser idea on this subject. Rebuttal:No one claims that Judaism is a minor religion. It is the seed for Christianity and has influenced Islam as well as the Western world.Circumcision is accepted by hundreds of millions of modern Americans, not only Jews and Muslims.
Answer 3:Answer 2 is non-traditional. Circumcision of male babies is a fundamental part of Judaism which has been kept, unchanged, for over 3700 years in keeping with God's explicit command to Abraham. Jews have sacrificed their life in times of persecution, in order to avoid abandoning this command. Tens of thousands of grown men, Jews who emigrated from the former Soviet Union, have askedto be circumcised. This is one of the few Torah-commands which even completely non-religious Jews make sure to keep.The right time is as stated in Answer 1.
As an operation, circumcision has an extremely small complication rate. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine (1990) reported a complication rate of 0.19 percent when circumcision is performed by a physician. When performed by a Jewish mohel, the rate falls to about 1 in 1000. When a complication occurs, it is usually excessive bleeding, which is easily correctable. No other surgical procedure can boast such figures for complication-free operations.
One reason why there are so few complications involving bleeding may be that the major clotting agents, prothrombin and vitamin K, do not reach peak levels in the blood until the eighth day of life. Prothrombin levels are normal at birth, drop to very low levels in the next few days, and return to normal at the end of the first week. One study showed that by the eighth day, prothrombin levels reach 110 percent of normal. In the words of Dr. Armand J. Quick, author of several works on the control of bleeding, "It hardly seems accidental that the rite of circumcision was postponed until the eighth day by the Mosaic law."
Circumcision has been known to offer virtually complete protection from penile cancer. According to a recent review article in the New England Journal of Medicine, none of the over 1,600 persons studied with this cancer had been circumcised in infancy. In the words of researchers Cochen and McCurdy, the incidence of penile cancer in the U.S. is "essentially zero" among circumcised men.
Also, research at Johns Hopkins University Medical School in Baltimore have shown that circumcised men are six to eight times less likely to become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Researchers believe that protection is due to the removal of the foreskin, which contains cells that have HIV receptors which scientists suspect are the primary entry point for the HIV virus. (Reuters, March 25, 2004)
Several studies reported that circumcised boys were between 10-to-39 times less likely to develop urinary tract infections during infancy than uncircumcised boys. In addition, circumcision protects against bacterial, fungal, and parasitic infections and a variety of other conditions related to hygiene. During the trench warfare of World War 1, American physicians noticed that uncircumcised solders were getting infections while Jews were not. As a result, doctors circumcised American solders.
The extremely low rate of cervical cancer in Jewish women (9-to-22 times less than among non-Jewish women) is thought to be related to the practice of circumcision.
As a result of studies like these, a number of prestigious medical organizations have recognized the benefits of circumcision, and the California Medical Association has endorsed circumcision as an "effective public health measure."
Still, it must be borne in mind that Jews circumcise because of God's command. The above health considerations are merely side-benefits.
How much does it cost for a twenty two year old to be circumcised?
Circumcision is generally not covered by health insurance or national health services unless it is to treat a medical condition, such a circumcision. Circumcision of an adult male should generally cost around $500 US Dollars.
You must undergo specialized training in BOTH surgery and Jewish law. You also need to be licensed and certified.
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Jewish boys undergo a "bris" or "brit" (circumcision) when they're 8 days old.
What happened to Jewish boys when they became eight days old?
Answer 1
many are genitally mutilated in a ceremony known as Brit mil-ah with the removal of the prepuce from their penis.
Answer 2
Jewish boys undergo ritual circumcision, which involves the removal of the foreskin from the penis. The ritual circumcision and the ceremony surrounding it are called Brit Milah.
Answer 3
(continuation of Answer 2)
Jewish boys are circumcised in a ceremony dating back 3800 years. The origin of Jewish circumcision is in the Torah. God told Abraham "every male among you shall be circumcised" (Gen. 17) as part of the covenant between God and the Jewish people.
Since that time, virtually all Jews have observed the command of circumcision (Genesis ch.17) for close to four millennia, even in times of religious persecution under the Greeks, Romans, Spaniards, Soviets and others. Circumcision is the indelible sign of God's covenant with Abraham and is just as important as Yom Kippur in terms of the stringency which the Torah places upon it. And similar to Yom Kippur, it is one of the observances which are common to Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews alike.
While we do not keep God's commands because of physical benefits, it is still interesting to note that:
Circumcision has been known to offer virtually complete protection from penile cancer. According to a recent review article in the New England Journal of Medicine, none of the over 1,600 persons studied with this cancer had been circumcised in infancy. In the words of researchers Cochen and McCurdy, the incidence of penile cancer in the U.S. is "essentially zero" among circumcised men.
Also, research at Johns Hopkins University Medical School in Baltimore have shown that circumcised men are six to eight times less likely to become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Researchers believe that protection is due to the removal of the foreskin, which contains cells that have HIV receptors which scientists suspect are the primary entry point for the HIV virus. (Reuters, March 25, 2004)
Several studies reported that circumcised boys were between 10-to-39 times less likely to develop urinary tract infections during infancy than uncircumcised boys. In addition, circumcision protects against bacterial, fungal, and parasitic infections and a variety of other conditions related to hygiene. The extremely low rate of cervical cancer in Jewish women (9-to-22 times less than among non-Jewish women) is thought to be related to the practice of circumcision.
As a result of studies like these, a number of prestigious medical organizations such as the California Medical Association have recognized the benefits of circumcision.
As an operation, circumcision has an extremely small complication rate. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine (1990) reported a complication rate of 0.19 percent when circumcision is performed by a physician. When performed by a trained mohel, the rate falls to 0.13 percent or about 1 in 800. When a complication occurs, it is usually due to the bleeding, which is easily correctable. No other surgical procedure can boast such figures for complication-free operations.
One reason why there are so few complications involving bleeding may be that the major clotting agents, prothrombin and vitamin K, do not reach peak levels in the blood until the eighth day of life. Prothrombin levels are normal at birth, drop to very low levels in the next few days, and return to normal at the end of the first week. One study showed that by the eighth day, prothrombin levels reach 110 percent of normal. In the words of Dr. Armand J. Quick, author of several works on the control of bleeding, "It hardly seems accidental that the rite of circumcision was postponed until the eighth day by the Mosaic law."
It means that the man is worried about the possibility that his future wife might not like foreskins and he's concerned about BOTH their health and well-being.
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