We should not be comparing natural pain...pain with a purpose, to pain that has raped an innocent person of the right to a whole, complete, unmutilated body. Parents who have CHOSEN pain for their babies.
Instead of offering ways to try and comfort a child who has been circumcised, offer facts and statistics that babies do not require circumcisions for their health and well being. The AAP does not recommend routine circumcisions for babies.
Mirandaof MN12:36AM May 24, 2012
Because circumcision is so much like a vaccine or growing tooth you know? Not at all like someone unnecessarily cutting off a normal, healthy part of the body...
Joseph4GIof CA10:16AM May 22, 2012
How about skipping unnecessary and painful procedures like circumcision?? Intact boys never feel the intense pain that circumcised boys feel.
Dave Llewellynof GA10:11PM May 21, 2012
The pain of being circumcised can be absolutely eliminated by - not circumcising. No national medical association in the world recommends it. Nothing it is claimed to prevent is so serious AND urgent that it can't wait until he is old enough to decide for himself that he wants (the best) part of his genitals cut off. Hardly any man ever does, which should tell you something.
H8:25PM May 21, 2012
Studies show that circumcision causes significant pain and trauma, behavioral and neurological changes in infants, potential parental stress from persistent crying (colic) of infants, disrupted bonding between parent and child, and risk of surgical complications. Other consequences of circumcision include loss of a natural, healthy, functioning body part, reduced sexual pleasure, potential psychological problems, and unknown negative effects that have not been studied.
Some circumcised men resent that they are circumcised. Sexual anxieties, reduced emotional expression, low self-esteem, avoidance of intimacy, and depression are also reported. Some doctors refuse to perform circumcisions because of ethical reasons. Relying on the presumed authorities (e.g., American Academy of Pediatrics or doctors who echo AAP views) is not sufficient (see http://www.circumcision.org/misleading.htm). For more information see http://www.circumcision.org.
Ronald Goldman, Ph.D.of MA11:50AM May 21, 2012
The best way to deal with pain from a circumcision, is not to circumcise in the first place. Circumcision prevents no disease, and cures nothing. Removing half the skin from a healthy boy's genitals should be a crime, the same as it is for a girl.
Three billion men with foreskins can't all be wrong.
Mammals have had them for 120 million years.
When was the last time your clitoral foreskin required surgery? A boy can learn to use a washcloth as well as a girl. Perhaps this is why the circumcision rate is dropping quickly, in Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and the US.
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Miranda of MN 12:36AM May 24, 2012
Joseph4GI of CA 10:16AM May 22, 2012
Dave Llewellyn of GA 10:11PM May 21, 2012
H 8:25PM May 21, 2012
Ronald Goldman, Ph.D. of MA 11:50AM May 21, 2012
Tom Tobin of MA 10:23AM May 21, 2012