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Circumcision: Circumcision: Medical Medical
Necessity or Necessity or FallacyFallacy
By Harry Wright
What is Circumcision?
Surgery
Removal of Mucosal tissue
Performed in the first days of life
The Circumstraint
Why Circumcision in the US?
• Prevention of STD’s– Syphilis– HIV
• Physical Cleanliness- UTI’s in the first year of life
• Masturbation Taboo• Spiritual Cleanliness
What is the cost benefit?
• Immunological defense system
• Lysozyme antibacterial/ antiviral protein
• RISK: The Frenulum, if severed, destroys functionality
WHAT GETS LOST?
•Circumcision removes useful erogenous tissue.
•Circumcision removes the single most pleasure producing area of the male body
Newborns don’t feel pain?