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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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Is circumcision expensive in some countries?
I think it is because there are numerous questions in this category and they are all about the cost. In Namibia Circumcision is free of charge in public hospitals.
Circumcision is an unnecessary procedure that serves no good purpose it is a religious rite or a cultural practice. the cost of the procedure usually depends on the standards of the treatment given and o the attitude of insurance provider in a given country. in many countries where circumcision is seen as a religious form of male genital mutilation there is increasing nervousness on the part of insurance providers to involve themselves besides the ethical questions. This leads to a reduction in medical personnel wanting to involve themselves in it and a corresponding increase in price.
What is no longer necessarily true about circumcision?
Circumcision was originally a cultural and religious form of genital mutilation. On the say so of the Mid 1800ds medical fraternity of England this procedure was recommended for health reasons, the reasoning was that more then a hundred different diseases ranging from syphilis to insanity were caused by masturbation. The whole English speaking world fell for it. the custom has persisted to some degree especially in the USA where there is strong marketing behind it. Today however all medical authority's proclaim that there is no therapeutic benefit to health in routine circumcision and that in fact the procedure is harmful if anything. Les then 20% OF THE MEN OF THE WORLD HAVE BEEN CIRCUMCISED and most of these mutilations were done in the name of religion and culture.
there is no good reason for this custom which would explain that only organisations that have a financial or religious conflict of interest in the matter promote it. In the mean time the layman that has been mutilated in this way is more likely to promote it as part of the trauma that accompany it.
Different people have different ideas about circumcision. I can honestly tell you that it's healthier than NOT being circumcised.
Circumcision is not covered by health insurance as it is not a medically necessary procedure so you will have to pay for the full cost yourself out of pocket. Circumcision with general anesthesia, which is required for the circumcision of a six month old, should cost between $2000 and $3000. This includes the doctor performing the procedure and the anesthesiologist. Circumcision of adults is less expensive, as only local anesthesia can be used. Circumcision has no known medical benefit, and most doctors recommend against routine infant circumcision. Circumcision, like all surgeries, has risks of adverse medical events including surgical error, prolonged bleeding, infection, and pain. A permanent decrease in penile sensitivity and sexual pleasure is also common since circumcision removes the foreskin, which protects the sensitive glans (head) of the penis. Circumcision is extremely rare in the world outside the United States, and even within the United States, the circumcision rate has dropped by more than half. In 1980 over 80% of newborns in the United States were circumcised while in 2007 less than 40% of infants were circumcised.
What are problems that occur after circumcision?
The "recorded" complication rate of circumcisions is extremely low due to most problems not being noticed till sexual maturity. The main initial "problem" afterward is pain and scarring at the site of the incision.
How Does Circumcision Harm?The "medical" debate about the "potential health benefits" of circumcision rarely addresses its real effects.
Circumcision denudes: Depending on the amount of skit cut off, circumcision robs a male of as much as 80 percent or more of his penile skin. Depending on the foreskin's length, cutting it off makes the penis as much as 25 percent or more shorter. Careful anatomical investigations have shown that circumcision cuts off more than 3 feet of veins, arteries, and capillaries, 240 feet of nerves, and more than 20,000 nerve endings.The foreskin's muscles, glands, mucous membrane, and epithelial tissue are destroyed, as well.
Circumcision desensitizes: Circumcision desensitizes the penis radically. Foreskin amputation means severing the rich nerve network and all the nerve receptors in the foreskin itself Circumcision almost always damages or destroys the frenulum. The loss of the protective foreskin desensitizes the glans. Because the membrane covering the permanently externalized glans is now subjected to constant abrasion and irritation, it keratinizes, becoming dry and tough. The nerve endings in the glans, which in the intact penis are just beneath the surface of the mucous membrane, are now buried by successive layers of keratinization. The denuded glans takes on a dull, grayish, sclerotic appearance.
Circumcision disables: The amputation of so much penile skin permanently immobilizes whatever skin remains, preventing it from gliding freely over the shaft and glans. This loss of mobility destroys the mechanism by which the glans is normally stimulated. When the circumcised penis becomes erect, the immobilized remaining skin is stretched, sometimes so tightly that not enough skin is left to cover the erect shaft. Hair-bearing skin from the groin and scrotum is often pulled onto the shaft, where hair is not normally found. The surgically externalized mucous membrane of the glans has no sebaceous glands. Without the protection and emollients of the foreskin, it dries out, making it susceptible to cracking and bleeding.
Circumcision disfigures: Circumcision alters the appearance of the penis drastically. It permanently externalizes the glans, normally an internal organ. Circumcision leaves a large circumferential surgical scar on the penile shaft. Because circumcision usually necessitates tearing the foreskin from the glans, pieces of the glans may be torn off, too, leaving it pitted and scarred. Shreds of foreskin may adhere to the raw glans, forming tags and bridges of dangling, displaced skin.
Depending on the amount of skin cut off and how the scar forms, the circumcised penis may be permanently twisted, or curve or bow during erection.[33] The contraction of the scar tissue may pull the shaft into the abdomen, in effect shortening the penis or burying it completely.[34]
Circumcision disrupts circulation: Circumcision interrupts the normal circulation of blood throughout the penile skin system and glans. The blood flowing into major penile arteries is obstructed by the line of scar tissue at the point of incision, creating backflow instead of feeding the branches and capillary networks beyond the scar. Deprived of blood, the meatus may contract and scarify, obstructing the flow of urine. This condition, known as meatal stenosis, often requires corrective surgery. Meatal stenosis is found almost exclusively among boys who have been circumcised.
Circumcision also severs the lymph vessels, interrupting the circulation of lymph and sometimes causing lymphedema, a painful, disfiguring condition in which the remaining skin of the penis swells with trapped lymph fluid.
* Circumcision harms the developing brain: Recent studies published in leading medical journals have reported that circumcision has longlasting detrimental effects on the developing brain, adversely altering the brain's perception centers. Circumcised boys have a lower pain threshold than girls or intact boys. Developmental neuropsychologist Dr. James Prescott suggests that circumcision can cause deeper and more disturbing levels of neurological damage, as well.
* Circumcision is unhygienic and unhealthy: One of the most common myths about circumcision is that it makes the penis cleaner and easier to take care of. This is not true. Eyes without eyelids would not be cleaner; neither would a penis without its foreskin. The artificially externalized glans and meatus of the circumcised penis are constantly exposed to abrasion and dirt, making the circumcised penis, in fact, more unclean. The loss of the protective foreskin leaves the urinary tract vulnerable to invasion by bacterial and viral pathogens.
The circumcision wound is larger than most people imagine. It is not just the circular point of union between the outer and inner layers of the remaining skin. Before a baby is circumcised, his foreskin must be torn from his glans, literally skinning it alive. This creates a large open area of raw, bleeding flesh, covered at best with a layer of undeveloped protomucosa. Germs can easily enter the damaged tissue and bloodstream through the raw glans and, even more easily, through the incision itself.
Even after the wound has healed, the externalized glans and meatus are still forced into constant unnatural contact with urine, feces, chemically treated diapers, and other contaminants.
Female partners of circumcised men do not report a lower rate of cervical cancer, nor does circumcision prevent penile cancer.[41] A recent study shows that the penile cancer rate is higher in the US than in Denmark, where circumcision, except among Middle Eastern immigrant workers, is almost unheard of. Indeed, researchers should investigate the possibility that circumcision has actually increased the rate of these diseases.
Circumcision does not prevent acquisition or transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). In fact, the US has both the highest percentage of sexually active circumcised males in the Western world and the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS. Rigorously controlled prospective studies show that circumcised American men are at a greater risk for bacterial and viral STDs, especially gonorrhea, nongonoccal urethritis, human papilloma virus, herpes simplex virus type 2, and chlamydia.
Circumcision is always risky: Circumcision always carries the risk of serious, even tragic, consequences. Its surgical complication rate is one in 500. These complications include uncontrollable bleeding and fatal infections.[49] There are many published case reports of gangrene following circumcision. Pathogenic bacteria such as staphylococcus, proteus, pseudomonas, other coliforms, and even tuberculosis can cause infections leading to death. These organisms enter the wound because it provides easy entry, not because the child is predisposed to infection.
Medical journals have published numerous accounts of babies who have had part or all of their glans cut off while they were being circumcised.[53 54 55] Other fully conscious, unanesthetized babies have had their entire penis burned off with an electrocautery gun. The September 1989 Journal of Urology published an account of four such cases. The article described the sex-change operation as "feminizing genitoplasty," performed on these babies in an attempt to change them into girls. The March 1997 Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine described one young person's horror on learning that "she" had been born a normal male, but that a circumciser had burned his penis off when he was a baby. Many other similar cases have been documented Infant circumcision has a reported death rate of one in 500,000.
Circumcision harms mothers: Scientific studies have consistently shown that circumcision disrupts a child's behavioral development. Studies performed at the University of Colorado School of Medicine showed that circumcision is followed by prolonged, unrestful non-REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. In response to the lengthy bombardment of their neural pathways with unbearable pain, the circumcised babies withdrew into a kind of semicoma that lasted days or even weeks.
Numerous other studies have proven that circumcision disrupts the mother-infant bond during the crucial period after birth. Research has also shown that circumcision disrupts feeding patterns. In a study at the Washington University School of Medicine, most babies would not nurse right after they were circumcised, and those who did would not look into their mothers' eyes.[66]
Circumcision violates patients' and human rights: No one has the right to cut off any part of someone else's genitals without that person's competent, fully informed consent. Since it is the infant who must bear the consequences, circumcision violates his legal rights both to refuse treatment and to seek alternative treatment. In 1995, the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Bioethics stated that only a competent patient can give patient consent or informed consent. An infant is obviously too young to consent to anything. He must be protected from anyone who would take advantage of his defenselessness. The concept of informed parental permission allows for medical interventions in situations of clear and immediate medical necessity only, such as disease, trauma, or deformity. The human penis in its normal, uncircumcised state satisfies none of these requirements.
Physicians have a duty to refuse to perform circumcision. They also must educate parents who, out of ignorance or misguidance, request this surgery for their sons. The healthcare professional's obligation is to protect the interests of the child. It is unethical in the extreme to force upon a child an amputation he almost certainly would never have chosen for himself.
Common SenseTo be intact, as nature intended, is best. The vast majority of males who are given the choice value their wholeness and keep their foreskins, for the same reason they keep their other organs of perception. Parents in Europe and non-Muslim Asia never have forced their boys to be circumcised. It would no more occur to them to cut off part of their boys' penises than it would to cut off part of their ears. Respecting a child's right to keep his genitals intact is normal and natural. It is conservative in the best sense of the word.
A circumcised father who has mixed feelings about his intact newborn son may require gentle, compassionate psychological counseling to help him come to terms with his loss and to overcome his anxieties about normal male genitalia. In such cases, the mother should steadfastly protect her child, inviting her husband to share this protective role and helping him diffuse his negative feelings. Most parents want what is best for their baby. Wise parents listen to their hearts and trust their instinct to protect their baby from harm. The experience of the ages has shown that babies thrive best in a trusting atmosphere of love, gentleness, respect, acceptance, nurturing, and intimacy. Cutting off a baby's foreskin shatters this trust.
Circumcision wounds and harms the baby and the person the baby will become. Parents who respect their son's wholeness are bequeathing to him his birthright--his body, perfect and beautiful in its entirety.
Paul M. Fleiss, MD, MPH, is assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California Medical Center. He is the author of numerous scientific articles published in leading national and international medical journals.
How was the procedures of circumcise performed in biblical times?
With a very sharp metal blade similar to that which is still being used by mohels today. Anyone who's ever witnessed this ceremony could tell you that it's a very quick procedure with almost no blood.
The baby is given wine as anesthesia and is held by either the father, a close male relative, or a respected rabbi. A device, called a shield is put in place to make sure that only the foreskin is removed then the skin is quickly removed.
As a side note, in a Jewish circumcision, less of the foreskin is removed than what is removed in modern hospital circumcisions.
Are military circumcisions necessary?
Circumcision is only necessary for medical reasons.
Circumcision is the amputation of an important body part. and the only reason to do such a thing is if it is in order to treat a condition that can not be treated in any other way. For example we don't cut of a child's breasts because one day in the future they might get breast cancer ( better do it now then wait till trouble develops). most conditions involving the foreskin are easily treated and removing it for no reason is in fact harmful.
They come to watch a Jewish baby boy get circumcised at 8 days old and participate in the rejoicing of the mitzva.
After the ceremony, a feast is usually held.
How do you keep a strong-willed 3-year-old boy from being kicked out of daycare?
It would be adviseable for you to take your 3 year old to a good children's doctor and have some tests run on him/her. Sometimes there could be a physical cause for this behavior. Also, see a child psychologist for an evaluation on your child. If a medication like Ritilan is considered, please seek out another opinion from a child special. This medication has been found (in Canada) to have caused many other problems in children from the side effects of this medication. Most of the time there is absolutely nothing wrong with your child with the exception of some good sound guidance. If your child is physically fit then it's simply because the child was spoiled and has been out of control for a year or more. Often, parents misunderstand how much a wee child can sense and they know how much they can get away with even at a very early age. You can prove it by letting your child stay with someone you know well that won't put up with this uncontrollable behavior. Personally, if the child has been tested and doesn't suffer any physical or mental problems, then it comes down to the fact someone has a spoiled child on their hands. Unfortunately, society has created monsters in this new generation with the "no spanking regulation." British Columbia, Canada has dropped that law in our country because they are beginning to realize they have taken total control out of parents hands and end up many times (not all the time) with misfits out in society. Teachers are complaining that many children are cheeky, disrespectful and out of control, not to mention crime has gone up and the police are arresting 8 - 14 year olds. I am going to probably get my backside kicked for mentioning the fact I am one of those that believe in a spanking when all else has failed with a child. It drives me crazy when a parents spends hours out of their day explaining every little order they give their child and if the child doesn't want to do that particular thing they just won't. They are sent to their room! For what? I have no idea. The child goes into their room and perhaps kicks, screams, break their toys and can destroy that bedroom. What has been accomplished. Nada! The child is angry, has not been taught what is right and wrong and doesn't know how to express their emotions. If we don't have rules and regulations bringing up our children then we have lost control in the future generations and in society. We have done an injustice to our children and they will have to learn life's lessons the hard way. Spoiled, bratty children have a difficult time fitting into any group of children and it hurts them emotionally, not to mention other adults don't want to be around them and it's hurtful and embarrassing for the parent. It's a good idea to slowly introduce problem children to certain other children and be closeby and be aware of what your child is doing (hitting, biting, slapping or kicking) another child. As the child gets a little older send your child to Sunday School because it's a good solid basis to bring any child up in. It gives them a belief system and a structure in their lives. They can choose their own religion when they get older. A parent that is firm and doesn't put up with any nonsense from their child, yet can cuddle, love and protect them is a good parent, but if the child is spoiled, kicks, screams and is mean and the parents simply coos away and makes excuses for that child they are doing them a great injustice. When I say spankings I don't mean beatings! Example: Please pick up your toys. (The child refuses and won't do it.) Then the parent says, "You have a choice .. pick up those toys or get a spanking." Perhaps once or twice you may have to give them a couple of whacks on the butt and they get the message loud and clear. The next time you say it they will usually pick up those toys. Most people don't want to beat a child, but there is much more abuse out there because many parents can't spank their child. The parent gets frustrated one day and they may grab the child by the arm and accidently twist (because children twist and turn themselves) or give them a much worse spanking than they deserve. A child should never be hit with a belt or any other weapon. These books that come out on how to raise children are the biggest crock of money-makers out there. Someone gets an idea in their head (most of it is to make money) and so parents who love their children want to do all the right things raising them. The poor parents are caught in the cross-hairs. God gave most of us common sense and love should always be at the top of the list regarding children. Spankings DON'T send a message to your child that you don't love them, but that you do care about them. We are all responsible for teaching our children to listen, to be polite and to learn respect of others so they can become healthy young adults. When my mother raised my brother and I (in the 40's up) she bought the latest rage in parent books put out by a Dr. Spoch. My mom read a chapter or two, tried it (it didn't work and she didn't have the time to explain every little movement she asked of us) and she heaved that book right out the back door (literally.) It was the smartest thing she ever did. If we were bad, we got a spanking. Eventually it sunk in, so we behaved ourselves. We turned out to be healthy and productive adults and we did stay out of trouble, but we also learned respect of the law, and others in society and were kind and caring. I thank my parents for being strict with me (still loving my brother and I) and they have made us extemely strong when times are tough for us. My brother and I often talk over old memories and have a good belly laugh. No, the spankings didn't bother us one darn bit! Now, the very kids of Dr. Spoch (now grown) have made statements to the fact that while he was preaching to all the other parents he messed up their lives. He was not a good father and was never there to help around the home. Please have your child assessed by your physician, then perhaps a child psychologist as you simply need some help controlling him/her. I know it pains you that your child isn't getting along with other children, but, in time and with help (you didn't do anything wrong but love your child) he/she will be just fine. Good luck Marcy
How much does it cost in Miami for circumcision for men?
The cost of circumcision for men in Miami can vary significantly based on factors such as the provider, the type of procedure, and whether it's done in a hospital or outpatient setting. Generally, prices can range from $300 to $3,000, with most insurance plans covering part or all of the cost for medically necessary procedures. It's advisable to consult with specific clinics or healthcare providers for accurate pricing and options.
Is it normal for a circumcised penis to smell fishy?
No it is not normal for any penis to smell fishy, Circumcised or not, simple daily cleaning even with just clear water, should prevent any "fishy smell."
How much is an adult circumcision in Mississippi?
The dollar amount is probably around $300. However, the cost in dollars shouldn't be your first question. Your first question should be, what is the anatomical and biological cost of removing the foreskin?
Circumcision removes the most sensitive part of a man's penis. The five most sensitive areas of the penis are on the foreskin. The transitional region from the external to the internal foreskin is the most sensitive region of the fully intact penis, and more sensitive than the most sensitive region of the circumcised penis.
How do boys become men in Islam?
There is no manhood ceremony in Islam, nor a particular age at which a boy is considered to be a man. It depends on the boy, his maturity, and the way people perceive him. There is no manhood ceremony in Islam, nor a particular age at which a boy is considered to be a man. It depends on the boy, his maturity, and the way people perceive him.
you could try circumcision, but that's up to you
AnswerThe foreskin is a shield to protect the penis from damage, as sexual reproduction is greatly needed in evolution and to keep the mammal's race existent, in this case, a human.When the foreskin gets stuck to the penis, the head of the penis might be incredibly dirty or might of even covered the entire head.
But the foreskin can only cover the head of the penis, it is joined to the lower Frenulum. The head of the penis is called the penial glands.
Without the foreskin it is very difficult to masturbate.
When the foreskin is pulled far enough, it can actually stretch down the entire penial shaft, but cannot reach the scrotum in a fully erected penis.
The foreskin may remain tight, but pulling the foreskin gradually, further and further each day.
Some people are scared of their foreskin from being pulled away for the first time.
This is common.
But if the penis is damaged and / or infected it is strongly advised to visit your doctor in sexual or penial medicine, usually located in a hospital.
