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Forget fur; what about banning circumcision? By Michael Mooney

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* Introducing Medical Intactivism. 1 * Medical Intactivist Writers 1 *
* International Groups Call to Abolish Circumcision Worldwide. *

The Whole Baby Revolution.
Intact State of the Foreskin. (USA & International)
http://www.wholebabyrevolution.com/
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The Whole Network.
Intact State of the Foreskin. (International)
http://www.thewholenetwork.org
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Intact America. (USA)
http://www.intactamerica.com
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Intactivisit Mommies. (America)
http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org
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Real Laws for Male Protection. (USA)
http://mgmbill.org/hearing.htm

The Foreskin Is Necessary By Dr. Paul M. Fleiss, MD, MPH

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'The foreskin has numerous protective, sensory, and sexual functions.'


The Foreskin Is Necessary
By Paul M. Fleiss, MD, MPH

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.

Published in Mothering: The Magazine of Natural Family Living, Winter 1997, pp. 36--45.
http://www.cirp.org/news/Mothering1997/

What Are the Foreskin's Functions?

The foreskin has numerous protective, sensory, and sexual functions.

• Protection: Just as the eyelids protect the eyes, the foreskin protects the glans and keeps its surface soft, moist, and sensitive. It also maintains optimal warmth, pH balance, and cleanliness. The glans itself contains no sebaceous glands-glands that produce the sebum, or oil, that moisturizes our skin.11 The foreskin produces the sebum that maintains proper health of the surface of the glans.

• Immunological Defense: The mucous membranes that line all body orifices are the body's first line of immunological defense. Glands in the foreskin produce antibacterial and antiviral proteins such as lysozyme.12 Lysozyme is also found in tears and mother's milk. Specialized epithelial Langerhans cells, an immune system component, abound in the foreskin's outer surface.13 Plasma cells in the foreskin's mucosal lining secrete immunoglobulins, antibodies that defend against infection.14

• Erogenous Sensitivity: The foreskin is as sensitive as the fingertips or the lips of the mouth. It contains a richer variety and greater concentration of specialized nerve receptors than any other part of the penis.15 These specialized nerve endings can discern motion, subtle changes in temperature, and fine gradations of texture.16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

• Coverage During Erection: As it becomes erect, the penile shaft becomes thicker and longer. The double-layered foreskin provides the skin necessary to accommodate the expanded organ and to allow the penile skin to glide freely, smoothly, and pleasurably over the shaft and glans.

• Self-Stimulating Sexual Functions: The foreskin's double-layered sheath enables the penile shaft skin to glide back and forth over the penile shaft. The foreskin can normally be slipped all the way, or almost all the way, back to the base of the penis, and also slipped forward beyond the glans. This wide range of motion is the mechanism by which the penis and the orgasmic triggers in the foreskin, frenulum, and glans are stimulated.

• Sexual Functions in Intercourse: One of the foreskin's functions is to facilitate smooth, gentle movement between the mucosal surfaces of the two partners during intercourse. The foreskin enables the penis to slip in and out of the vagina nonabrasively inside its own slick sheath of self-lubricating, movable skin. The female is thus stimulated by moving pressure rather than by friction only, as when the male's foreskin is missing.

• The foreskin fosters intimacy between the two partners by enveloping the glans and maintaining it as an internal organ. The sexual experience is enhanced when the foreskin slips back to allow the male's internal organ, the glans, to meet the female's internal organ, the cervix-a moment of supreme intimacy and beauty.

The foreskin may have functions not yet recognized or understood. Scientists in Europe recently detected estrogen receptors in its basal epidermal cells.24 Researchers at the University of Manchester found that the human foreskin has apocrine glands.25 These specialized glands produce pheromones, nature's chemical messengers. Further studies are needed to fully understand these features of the foreskin and the role they play.

- The Case Against Circumcision, by Paul M. Fleiss, MD

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.

Published in Mothering: The Magazine of Natural Family Living, Winter 1997, pp. 36--45.
http://www.cirp.org/news/Mothering1997/
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* The intact foreskin is the male's original state. *
'Circumcision harms the developing brain: Recent studies published in leading medical journals have reported that circumcision has long-lasting 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.'
- Paul M. Fleiss, MD., MPH., The Case Against Circumcision
http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org/fleiss.html
Paul M. Fleiss, MD, MPH, is assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California Medical Center.
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* What's wrong with circumcision? *
'In Norway, 60% of the rapes are committed by 2% of the population who are circumcised.'
http://circabolition.multiply.com/journal/item/344/Genocides....

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:) Related Intactivist Tools and URLs: (In English) :)
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Jews Opposing Circumcision (USA)
http://www.JEWSAGAINSTCIRCUMCISION.org

Intact America (USA)
http://www.INTACTAMERICA.org

Ending Circumcision In The Jewish Community By Moshe Rothenberg, MSW. (NY)
http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/second/rothenberg.html

Intactivist Moms (International and Worldwide)
http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org

International Coalition for Genital Integrity (International and Worldwide)
http://www.icgi.org

The Case Against Circumcision by Paul M. Fleiss, MD. (USA)
http://www.cirp.org/news/Mothering1997/

Medical Doctors Opposing Circumcision Surgery (International and Worldwide)
http://www.doctorsagainstcircumcision.org

The History of Circumcision Surgery (International and Worldwide)
http://www.HISTORYOFCIRCUMCISION.net

Nurses Opposing Circumcision (International and Worldwide)
http://www.nurses.cirp.org

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* Value of the Intact State of the Foreskin *
* Circumcision is a Violation of International Human Rights Law.*

Forget fur; what about banning circumcision?
March 14, 2011, Health & Fitness
By Michael Mooney , WeHo News, West Hollywood, California

“The leading international statement of medical ethics is the European Convention on Human Rights and Bioethics, where Article 20(1) prohibits non-therapeutic tissue removal from those who do not have the capacity to consent. Children have a right to the protection of the security of their person and to protection from degrading treatment. Circumcision violates those human rights. Several authorities report that circumcision degrades the erectile function of the penis. Circumcision, therefore, must be regarded as degrading treatment. Degrading treatment is an additional violation of human rights.”

Another study in 2010 by Wei found that circumcision would have little impact on HIV transmission.
(http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/info/HIVStatement....

And another study in 2010 by Sanchez said that circumcision did not reduce risk of HIV.
( http://www.icgi.org/aids/ )

Five other rigorously controlled studies said that circumcised males were actually at GREATER risk for all sexually transmitted diseases because numerous immune functions generated inside the foreskin are lost with circumcision.
( http://www.circumstitions.com/HIV.html )

Indeed, moisture generated inside the foreskin contains lysozymes, enzymes that attack HIV and destroy bacteria. Circumcision destroys this and other natural protection against invading organisms.
( http://www.circumcisionandhiv.com )

But what about the human element?

This effect has been evaluated thoroughly and published in a study by O’Hara in 1999 in the British Journal of Urology International. Among other things, the study showed that women who had sex with a circumcised male were almost half as likely to experience a vaginal orgasm as women who had intercourse with an uncircumcised male.
( http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/ohara/ )

Here is a reprint of some of the data:
- With circumcision vaginal orgasm was 34.7 percent less likely.
- Uncircumcised, there was 60.6 percent more chance of vaginal orgasm.
- Circumcised, vaginal discomfort was 2.01 times more likely.
- Uncircumcised, discomfort was .85 times less likely.
- Orgasm frequency was 1.68 times less likely with circumcision.
- Uncircumcised, orgasm frequency was 2.39 times more likely.
- Multiple orgasms were .96 times less likely with circumcision.
- Uncircumcised, multiple orgasms were 1.59 times more likely.
- Positive feelings after sex were 1.95 times less likely with circumcision.
- Uncircumcised, positive feelings were 5.01 times more likely.

And finally, the overall rating for sexual satisfaction was 1.81 times less with circumcision, while satisfaction was 8.03 times better with an uncircumcised partner.

The last measurement, 'Overall Satisfaction Rating,' is telling.

Sex with an uncircumcised partner was rated 9.84 times (8.03 versus -1.81) more satisfying than sex with a circumcised partner.

Does it seem like this difference in satisfaction could result in more broken marriages?

Indeed, a study by George Hughes, MD, in the journal Ohio Medicine, found that being uncircumcised was associated with a higher rate of a sexual compatibility in marriage.
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* Introducing International Intactivism 1*
* Intactivist Writers on Human Rights 1 *

* Religious Groups Call to Abolish Circumcision Worldwide *
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Ashley Montagu, Intactivist Intellectual (USA)
http://www.montagunocircpetition.org/
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Ashley Montagu Essay on the History of Circumcision (UK)
http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/second/montagu.html
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* Jewish Groups Call to Abolish Circumcision Worldwide * (Isreal, UK, USA, & International)
http://www.jewsagainstcircumcision.org
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Kahal / Jewish Intact Israelis' Parents' Rights Group (Israel, in Hebrew)
http://www.kahal.org
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Catholic Intactivism (Worldwide)
http://www.catholicsagainstcircumcision.org
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Jewish Intactivist Community Forum (Worldwide)
http://www.beyondthebris.com/
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The Founding Seeds of Intactivism in Islam? (International)
http://www.cirp.org/library/cultural/aldeeb1/
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International Coalition for Genital Integrity (International)
http://www.icgi.org/information/medicalization/
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Circumcision in History (Worldwide)
http://www.HISTORYOFCIRCUMCISION.net
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Real Laws for Male Protection (California)
http://sfmgmbill.org
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